BW Ideol’s 2 MW Floatgen floating wind turbine has been in operation for eight years at the SEM-REV offshore test site off Le Croisic, France, with cumulative electricity production now exceeding 40 GWh. The turbine, installed on BW Ideol’s concrete Damping Pool floating foundation, entered operatio
Tokyo-based JFE Engineering Corporation has produced what it says is Japan’s first domestically manufactured monopile for an offshore wind farm. The monopile is destined for the 315 MW Oga–Katagami–Akita project, owned by a consortium consisting of JERA Nex BP, Electric Power Development (J-POWER),
The offshore sector faces unprecedented demands for scale, volume, and structural integrity. As monopiles, transition pieces, and jacket foundations grow larger (requiring steel plates exceeding 100 mm (3.93 in) in thickness and up to 4.5 m (14.76 ft) in width) fabrication yards must resolve bottlen
Haizea Wind Group has delivered what it says are the largest monopiles ever manufactured in Southern Europe for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. Produced at the company’s facility at the Port of Bilbao, the monopiles measure over 105 metres in length, have a diameter of 11 metres, and wei
Steelwind Nordenham has completed the delivery of all monopiles under its contract for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea, with the final two foundations shipped from the company’s port facility. Under its scope, Steelwind manufactured and delivered 34 monopiles for the
Dajin Heavy Industry has started fabrication of 63 transition pieces (TPs) for the 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, following a first steel cutting ceremony held at the company’s Penglai manufacturing base in China on 30 July. The transition pieces are being manufacture
South Korean offshore wind foundation manufacturer SK oceanplant has secured a contract from Seatrium to manufacture and supply the jacket foundation and piles for TenneT’s BalWin5 high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore converter platform in the German North Sea. The contract will see SK oceanp
CS Wind Offshore has sent off the first batch of transition pieces (TPs) for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht I offshore wind farm from its site at the Port of Aalborg to Germany. Weighing around 362 tonnes each, the transition pieces will be transported and installed at the project site in the German North S
PTSC Mechanical & Construction (PTSC M&C) has completed the construction and loadout of the offshore substation structures for the Fengmiao offshore wind project in Taiwan, comprising a 3,400-tonne topside and an 8,000-tonne jacket and the accompanying piles. “Delivered on schedule with more than 2.
BW Ideol and French construction group NGE have signed an exclusive partnership agreement to jointly develop the Fos3F floating wind foundation manufacturing project in Fos-sur-Mer. Under the agreement, the two companies will each hold a 50 per cent stake in Fos3F, which aims to establish a serial p
