107 results found for 'Arklow Bank Wind Park 2'

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  • SSE Soon to Submit Arklow Bank Wind Park 2 Offshore Planning Application

    4 June 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables plans to submit an offshore planning consent application to Ireland’s planning authority An Board Pleanála this week for the offshore infrastructure required for its proposed Arklow Bank Wind Park 2 project in the Irish Sea, the developer announced on 4 June. The Maritime Area Planning Application is being submitted by Sure Partners Ltd. […]

  • Japanese Start Building UK’s First HVDC Cable Factory

    15 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Transition

    Japan-headquartered Sumitomo Electric has kicked off the construction of its subsea cable factory in Scotland, set to supply critical elements for the reinforcement of the UK electricity transmission grid and for connecting renewable energy production facilities to the grid. Sumitomo Electric held the groundbreaking ceremony together with its subsidiary Sumitomo Electric UK Power Cables on 14 […]

  • US Selects Five Floating Wind Technologies Enabling Mass Production and Deployment in Second FLOWIN Phase

    16 May 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Floating Wind, Foundations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    Principle Power’s WindFloat, PelaStar, Technip Energies’ INO15, Stiesdal’s Tetra Triple-One, and Esteyco’s WHEEL floating wind platforms are the winners of the second phase of the FLoating Offshore Wind ReadINess (FLOWIN) Prize in the United States, set up to support technologies that can facilitate mass production and deployment of floating wind turbines. Each of the five […]

  • Second Offshore Wind Port in Massachusetts Breaks Ground

    16 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Ports & Logistics

    Construction work on converting a former oil- and coal-fired power plant site in Salem, Massachusetts, into a terminal serving the offshore wind industry has started. On 15 August, Crowley Wind Services, the company managing the redevelopment and the new terminal’s operator, held a groundbreaking ceremony at the site that will become the Salem Offshore Wind […]

  • SSE’s Arklow Bank 2 Could Bring EUR 800 Million Boost for Irish Economy

    28 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Contribution

    Socio-economic research on the potential benefits of Arklow Bank Wind Park 2 estimates an economic benefit to the Irish economy of up to EUR 800 million during the project’s lifetime, of which over half a billion euros could directly benefit counties Wicklow and Wexford. The preliminary data is contained in an independent report commissioned by […]

  • USV Survey Starting at Proposed 1 GW Offshore Wind Project in Ireland

    2 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    An unmanned surface vessel (USV) survey is set to begin this month at the Braymore Wind Park site located offshore Ireland. Trial operations of remotely piloted XOcean USVs will take place in the Balbriggan and Drogheda Bay area during September and October for approximately six weeks, subject to weather and operational constraints. The vessels will […]

  • SSE Renewables Unveils Plans for Wind Farm Offshore Ireland’s Atlantic Coast

    6 April 2023
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables is seeking an investigative foreshore licence to facilitate survey work for a possible new offshore wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Tarbert, Co. Kerry, Ireland. SSE Renewables has recently submitted an application for an investigative foreshore licence to Ireland’s Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and is seeking […]

  • N-Sea Picks UK Firm to Provide ‘World’s First DNV-Approved’ Cable Repair Equipment

    29 November 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Supply Chain

    The Netherlands-headquartered subsea solutions provider N-Sea has handed out a contract to Osbit, a UK-headquartered offshore wind equipment specialist and a Venterra Group company, for the delivery of a suite of equipment to enable the repair and lay of offshore cables. According to Osbit, this equipment consists of a novel dual concentric carousel, a tower […]

  • SSE Renewables Calls On Ireland to Raise Offshore Wind Ambitions

    17 February 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    SSE Renewables has called on the Irish Government to expand its renewable energy ambition and increase its current 5 GW target of installed offshore wind energy by 2030. Speaking at the Irish Renewable Energy Summit at Croke Park, Dublin, the company’s Director of Development Maria Ryan said the offshore wind was key to addressing the […]

  • SSE Renewables Picks Project Certification Partner for Irish Offshore Wind Farm

    18 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders

    Bureau Veritas has announced that it will provide Project Certification for SSE Renewables’ Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2, located off the east coast of Ireland. Bureau Veritas will be responsible for providing project certification during the design phase covering wind turbines, foundations, towers, and substations according to international standards. The Arklow Bank Wind Park […]

  • Geophysical Survey to Begin at Irish Offshore Wind Project

    25 August 2022
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    An offshore geophysical survey campaign will soon start at the Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 located off the Wicklow coast in the Irish Sea. The goal of the survey is to provide site investigation information to facilitate the development of the Arklow Bank Wind Park. Work is anticipated to start at the end of August and […]

  • SSE First Offshore Wind Developer to Receive Consent for Onshore Grid Infrastructure in Ireland

    30 May 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables has announced that the planning permission for the onshore grid infrastructure for the 800 MW Phase 2 of Arklow Bank Wind Park has been approved by Ireland’s planning board, An Bord Pleanála. This is the first time an offshore wind developer secured planning permission to develop onshore transmission grid infrastructure for an Irish […]

  • SSE First Offshore Wind Developer in Ireland to Seek Consent for Onshore Grid Infrastructure

    21 April 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables has announced its intention to submit a planning application for the onshore grid infrastructure for the Arklow Bank 2 offshore wind farm. This is the first time an offshore wind developer will seek consent for this kind of infrastructure in Ireland. The company said it would submit the application in the coming weeks […]

  • SSE to Invest EUR 15 Million in Arklow Bank 2 O&M Base

    7 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables has presented details of its plan for an operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the 520 MW Arklow Bank 2 offshore wind project in Ireland. The O&M base, in which SSE will invest EUR 15 million, will be built at a disused site known as The Old Shipyard at the South Dock in […]

  • Partrac and Team Working on Arklow Bank 2

    20 July 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Partrac, MetOceanWorks and Cooper Marine Advisors are carrying out a detailed assessment of the geomorphology of SSE Renewables’ Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 offshore wind project. The consortium partners are currently in the second stage of their project, following the completion of the first round of work at the end of 2019. Last year, […]

  • SSE Holding Consultations for Arklow Bank 2

    20 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables is holding public consultations in the South Wicklow and North Wexford areas in Ireland for the Arklow Bank Phase 2 offshore wind project. During the consultations held from 14 October to 11 November, the public will be able to provide feedback on the offshore infrastructure and onshore grid infrastructure elements of the project. […]

  • Survey on Schedule at Arklow Bank 2

    23 September 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The Ireland-based Alpha Marine is set to kick off a reconnaissance survey at the Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 located off the Wicklow coast in the Irish Sea. The goal of the survey is to provide background information to inform future site investigation works for the 520 MW project. Works, which will include magnetometer surveying, are […]

  • SSE Seeking Arklow Bank 2 Turbine Foundation Designers

    14 October 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    SSE Renewables has issued a tender seeking a company to provide the turbine substructure FEED and detailed design for the second phase of the Arklow Bank offshore wind farm. SSE has developed a substructure concept that includes a monopile and transition piece which shall provide the basis for commencing the FEED scope of works. The […]

  • Irish Offshore Wind Project Delayed by Three Years as SSE Switches to New Consenting Regime

    24 March 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables plans to commission the Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 in 2028 and not in 2025 as initially planned as the developer confirmed that it plans to apply for a Maritime Area Consent (MAC) for the project under Ireland’s new consenting regime. The decision by SSE Renewables to transfer Phase 2 of Arklow […]

  • Turbine Catches Fire at 18-Year-Old Irish Offshore Wind Farm

    20 October 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The article has been updated with a statement from GE Renewable Energy. One of the wind turbines at Arklow Bank, Ireland’s first and so far only offshore wind farm, has caught fire after it was presumably struck by lightning amid severe weather with thunderstorms that hit the area, according to Irish RTE. The 25.2 MW […]

  • Metocean Survey Starts Offshore Ireland

    29 July 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Metocean devices will be deployed in the Irish Sea in late July or early August to collect data on waves and currents at the site of the proposed Arklow Bank offshore wind project. Four separate devices will be deployed off the East Coast of County Wicklow, Ireland, using either the AMS Retriever or Husky, a […]

  • SSE Chooses Arklow Harbour for 520 MW Irish OWF

    8 June 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    SSE Renewables has selected Arklow Harbour as the preferred location for the operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the second phase of the Arklow Bank offshore wind farm. The developer has been assessing the Wicklow Port and Arklow Harbour as possible locations for the project’s O&M base since early 2019. The Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase […]

  • Arklow Bank O&M Base Gets Green Light

    17 June 2022
    Authorities, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables has secured planning permission for the development of an Operations and Maintenance facility for the Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 offshore wind project in Arklow harbour, Ireland. The approval was secured from Wicklow County Council in relation to the operations base proposed for South Dock. The decision will help contribute to a […]

  • Irish Wind Farm to Share Onshore Substation with Data Centre

    17 November 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables and Irish-owned data centre owner and operator, Echelon Data Centres have agreed to develop a joint 220kV substation at the Avoca River Business Park in Arklow, Ireland. The new infrastructure will facilitate the development of Ireland’s first large-scale offshore wind farm, Arklow Bank, off the coast of Co. Wicklow with an export capacity […]

  • Arklow Bank Phase 2 Geotechnical Survey to Start in One Month

    31 July 2020
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Geoquip Marine will commence geotechnical survey at the Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 site in the Irish Sea in late August or early September, according to a Notice to Mariners from Ireland’s Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. The company will use its vessel Geoquip Saentis to carry out the survey work, which will be […]

  • SSE Probing the Market for Arklow Bank 2 Construction Work

    30 October 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    SSE Renewables has issued two periodic indicative notices to carry out market sounding for the construction of the Arklow Bank Phase 2 offshore wind project in Ireland. The first notice seeks market sounding for the wind turbine installation vessels, including associated services. Parties can apply until 10 November, with the planned date of publication of the […]