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  • Parkwind & Co Reveal ScotWind Bid

    20 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    A consortium comprising Parkwind, Quaybridge Scotland, and Maple Power (a joint venture between Enbridge and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board) announced on 20 July that their NextGen consortium was participating in the ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland. According to the consortium, early development work on offshore wind sites in Scotland has already been completed from […]

  • Edda Wind Orders Two More CSOVs, Prepares for IPO

    15 March 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Edda Wind has ordered two more Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV) and will start preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) on Euronext Growth Oslo. The two CSOVs will join Edda Wind’s fleet in 2023 and 2024 from Astilleros Gondan shipyard in Spain, where two CSOVs are currently being built, after Østensjø Rederi signed a letter […]

  • GE Haliade – X Prototype Gets a Power Boost

    22 October 2020
    R&D, Technology

    GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X prototype, the world’s most powerful wind turbine operating to date, has been optimized and is now operating at a 13 MW power output. During the following months, the prototype operating in the Port of Rotterdam will undergo a series of tests to perform different types of measurements and obtain its type […]

  • Block Island Jackets Go Under Investigation

    12 April 2019
    R&D

    A team led by the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) is set to conduct a research project on the engineering of the jacket foundations at the U.S. Block Island offshore wind farm. The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has awarded USD 608,722 for the 28-month study of the first U.S. offshore wind commercial project. […]

  • Formosa 1 Monopiles Leave Germany

    9 April 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    All 20 foundation monopiles built for the Formosa 1 Phase 2 have left the EEW SPC yard in Germany onboard two heavy load transport vessels and are en route to Taichung port in Taiwan, Jan De Nul said. Now that these components for the offshore construction are mobilized, the actual installation operations on site can be kicked […]

  • New York Charts 9 GW by 2035 Offshore Wind Path

    16 January 2019
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has called for 9,000 MW of offshore wind energy to be developed in the US state by 2035. The New York Governor proposed the quadruple of the current target of having 2,400 MW installed by 2030 in his 2019 State of the State Speech. To complement the Green […]

  • UK Charts Decade-Long Offshore Wind Path

    23 July 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The UK government has committed to opening the Contracts for Difference auctions for offshore wind every two years from 2019 throughout the 2020s.

  • Rotra Mare Brings First Rentel Turbine Parts to Ostend

    14 February 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Today, 14 February, Siemens’s Rotra Mare roll on/roll off (Ro-Ro) vessel brought the first Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbine components for the Rentel offshore wind farm to the REBO site in Ostend. Two blade sets and six top towers have been shipped from Esbjerg.

  • PGE Baltica Wins Another Area in Polish Offshore Wind Seabed Auction

    26 January 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Elektrownia Wiatrowa Baltica 1, a subsidiary of PGE Baltica from the PGE Group, has scored the most points in the procedure regarding the location permit for the offshore wind farms for area 60.E.3 in the Baltic Sea off the Polish coast. EDF Renewable Offshore Polska I, Cordeneos (owned by RWE), and POW – Polish Offshore […]

  • Portugal Postpones First Offshore Wind Auction, Doubles Capacity Target

    3 June 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Portugal plans to hold its first offshore wind auction in 2023 with the aim of awarding between 6 GW and 8 GW of capacity, according to João Galamba, the country’s Secretary of State for Energy. As previously reported, Portugal had initially planned to hold its first auction this summer and award between 3 GW and […]

  • Dong Fang Offshore Buys Pacific Constructor

    13 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Dong Fang Offshore (DFO), a subsidiary of Hung Hua Construction, has bought the subsea multi-purpose vessel Pacific Constructor from Swire Pacific Offshore to strengthen its fleet serving the offshore wind sector in Taiwan, as well as in the Asia Pacific region. Pacific Constructor, renamed to Constructor 1, is on its way to Taiwan, where it […]

  • Heerema and Safeway Team Up Offshore Taiwan

    21 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has awarded the Dutch offshore transfer equipment specialist Safeway with a contract to supply a Safeway Seagull type motion compensated gangway system for installation on the CSV Normand Baltic. This is Safeway’s first contract for HMC, and it is also the first time the Safeway Seagull system with 3D crane function […]

  • ABB Power Pack for Hornsea Project Two SOV

    30 May 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has awarded ABB with a contract to equip a wind farm service operation vessel (SOV) which once built will operate on the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK.

  • ABP Contracts IMES for Humber Ports Work

    30 May 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    Associated British Ports (ABP) has signed a contract with IMES International to ensure the operational integrity of crane and bulk handling rigging equipment across its four ports in Humber, which will directly service UK’s Round 3 offshore wind farms, including the Dogger Bank, Hornsea and East Anglia projects.

  • Construction Starts on TenneT’s BorWin6 HVDC Converter Platform

    5 July 2023
    Grid Connection

    The construction work has begun on the BorWin6 High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) project which will be delivered by TenneT to link 980 MW of offshore wind capacity to the German grid. Through a consortium with Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute and C-EPRI Electric Power Engineering (GEIRI/CEPRI), McDermott is providing engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning […]

  • US Jumpstarts Offshore Wind, Targets 30 GW by 2030

    30 March 2021
    Authorities

    The US has set a national target of 30 GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2030 as a centerpiece of a newly introduced plan by the Biden Administration to jumpstart offshore wind energy and create tens of thousands of jobs in the sector over the next decade. The ambitious offshore wind target will support […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Awards First Local Supply Contracts in Taiwan

    3 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has awarded the first local supply contracts for Ørsted’s Formosa 1 Phase 2 and wpd’s Yunlin offshore wind projects in Taiwan.

  • Maersk Wind Turbine Installation Vessel to Feature NOV’s Equipment

    9 May 2022
    Vessels

    Texas-based NOV has received contracts from Sembcorp Marine Ltd to supply equipment for the offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) the company is building for Maersk Supply Service. The order will see NOV-BLM supply the rack and pinion jacking systems and the load transfer system while NOV Heavy Lift will deliver the GustoMSC-designed heavy lift […]

  • Powerhouses Return for Offshore Wind Accelerator Stage 4

    27 October 2020
    R&D, Technology

    The Carbon Trust has launched the fourth stage of the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), with all industry partners returning to participate and fund collaborative research, development and demonstration projects. Partners for Stage 4 are EnBW, Equinor, Ørsted, RWE Renewables, ScottishPower Renewables, Shell, SSE Renewables, and Vattenfall. The OWA has undertaken more than 180 projects internationally […]

  • Virginia to Set Up Offshore Wind Office, Invest in Portsmouth Marine Terminal

    12 December 2019
    Authorities, Environment, Ports & Logistics

    Virginia’s Governor Ralph Northam has proposed a budget that creates this US state’s first Office of Offshore Wind. The budget also invests up to USD 40 million to upgrade the Portsmouth Marine Terminal, to secure new investments in the offshore wind supply chain. These investments are aimed at helping Virginia achieve 2,500MW of energy generated […]

  • Connecticut Issues 2GW Offshore Wind Call

    20 August 2019
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has released a request for proposals (RFP) for up to 2,000MW of offshore wind power. This RFP represents the US state’s first solicitation dedicated specifically to offshore wind development. It builds off of multi-resource solicitations in 2018 in which Connecticut bought 304MW of offshore wind from […]

  • Vineyard Wind Moves Through the System

    14 February 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Office has advanced its environmental review of the proposed Vineyard Wind Connector transmission project by issuing a certificate regarding the project’s Environmental Notification Form (ENF).

  • New Jersey Committee Proposes 1.1GW Offshore Wind Opening Move

    29 January 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment

    New Jersey’s Environment and Energy Transition Advisory Committee has proposed that the newly elected Governor Phil Murphy jumpstarts the offshore wind industry by committing to the largest offshore wind solicitation in the US of 1,100MW of electric power. 

  • Fugro Expanding Its Offshore Wind Expertise Centre in Virginia

    26 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Fugro will expand its regional centre of expertise for offshore wind, located in Norfolk, Virginia, as the company’s Virginia operations have grown over the past decade with the increase in the number of offshore wind projects on the US East Coast. The expansion, which was announced by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on 26 June, will […]

  • Offshore Wind Majors Complete Phase 1 on Bottom-Impact Studies of Wind Turbine Jack-Up Vessels

    24 October 2022
    Contribution, R&D, Technology

    Norway-headquartered DNV and its partners have completed Phase 1 of a joint industry project (JIP) on Bottom Impact and Partially Submerged Conditions for optimising the installation process of offshore wind turbines. According to DNV, offshore wind turbine installation is currently done in benign weather conditions to limit the bottom impact of wind turbine installation vessels’ […]

  • Van Oord, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock to Rock Empire Wind Seabed

    4 May 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor and BP have selected a consortium between Van Oord and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD) for subsea rock installation works for their Empire Wind 1 and Empire Wind 2 offshore wind farms in New York. The consortium plans to start operations at the offshore wind farm sites in the mid-2020s, with Van Oord […]