Fugro will conduct a UXO survey at the Morecambe Bay area this month, ahead of a geotechnical site investigation for the Morecambe offshore wind project that is planned to start in May 2026. The UXO work will be undertaken by the survey vessel Fugro Frontier and is planned to commence around 10 Apri
Waters off Denmark’s west coast are now home to what RWE says is the world’s first offshore wind turbine featuring a CO2‑reduced steel tower and recyclable rotor blades. The 1.1 GW Thor offshore wind farm, currently under construction some 22 kilometres off the west coast of Jutland, will comprise 7
A 504 MW offshore wind farm developed by China Huaneng Group (CHNG) was fully commissioned on 7 April. The Shandong Peninsula North wind farm has been built at a site located some 70 kilometres off the coast of Shandong Province, where water depth ranges between 52 and 56 metres, making this China’s
Orlen Neptun has selected a consortium of Ramboll, Projmors ASE Group, and Enprom to advance the technical planning and permitting for its 900 MW Baltic East offshore wind farm in Poland. Ramboll’s Polska team will oversee the overall management of the project, perform FEED design of the offshore co
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy said on 3 April that, in addition to the already announced 1 GW IJmuiden Ver Gamma-A site that is set to be auctioned off this year, developers will also be able to apply for the 1 GW IJmuiden Ver Gamma-B site, bringing the upcoming offshore
RWE and ASML, the global supplier of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, have entered a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), following a ten-year PPA that the two companies signed in 2021. The initial agreement is now being expanded to cover around 130 MW of installed renewable capaci
Half of the 62 jacket foundations have been installed at the Dieppe-Le-Tréport offshore wind project site in France. The first wind turbine foundation was installed at the project site, located 15 kilometres off the city of Le Tréport and 17 kilometres off the city of Dieppe, by DEME’s installation
Petrobras has awarded a contract to Fugro for a geotechnical site investigation for the Brazilian oil major’s first offshore wind project, a pilot proposed to be built off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro. According to Fugro, the 18 MW Rio de Janeiro offshore wind pilot project is the first
Maersk’s first next-generation wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Maersk Viridis, has sailed out of Singapore and is on its way to the US, where it will install turbines on Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, under construction in the US federal waters off New York. According to Maersk
Heerema Marine Contractors, using its semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Sleipnir, has completed the installation of the first of the two Hornsea 3 offshore converter stations. As reported recently, Sleipnir started installing the jacket foundation for the Offshore Converter Station 1 (OCS1) at Ør
Installation of the first of 84 Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbines is underway at the Sunrise Wind project site, located approximately 30 miles (around 48 kilometres) east of Montauk, New York. The installation vessel Wind Scylla, owned by Cadeler, arrived at the site on 25/26 March, according to th
The first preparations ahead of offshore construction work at the OranjeWind project site in the Netherlands have begun, as Jan De Nul has started the filter layer installation campaign. In the coming weeks, the rock installation vessel Simon Stevin will install the first layer of erosion protection
The installation of wind turbine foundations at Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK is scheduled to start in April, with Cadeler’s vessels Wind Ally and Wind Orca, and the service operation vessel (SOV) Esvagt Froude set to mobilise for the work from Dutch and UK ports. Wind Ally will mo
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has granted planning permission for RWE’s Nordseecluster B, comprising NC 3 and NC 4 sites that will make up the 900 MW offshore wind farm. Nordseecluster B is the second phase of the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster development, located in the German N
