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France Energies Marines Launches Four Offshore Wind R&D Projects

DNV Certifies Floating Wind Turbine Foundation Design for Buchan Project

EMEC Secures Multi-Million Funding for DeepWind Floating Wind Test Site

Ampelmann Completes Cargo Drone Campaign at Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm

Equinor to Deploy Cable Monitoring Tech at 9-Year-Old Offshore Wind Farm

Norway’s energy company Equinor has awarded Proserv with a contract for the deployment of cable monitoring technology at the 402 MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK. Proserv’s ECG Business Unit will deploy its advanced monitoring technology to provide continuous visibility of cable and terminati

Encomara’s Squid Floating Wind Connection System Reaches Commercialisation

Encomara’s Squid connection system for floating offshore wind has reached Technology Readiness Level 7/8 following inshore trials at Ardersier Port in Scotland, with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) recognising the technology as ready for commercial manufacture at scale. The Aberdeen-based comp

NextOcean to Equip Esvagt SOV with WavePredictor Technology

NextOcean has secured a contract to equip Esvagt’s service operation vessel (SOV) Esvagt Njord with its WavePredictor vessel-motion prediction technology. The system will be used to support offshore operations at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK, where Esvagt Njord has been deployed for oper

MacGregor Secures DNV Certification for Floating-to-Floating Personnel Transfers

MacGregor has received DNV certification for floating-to-floating (F2F) personnel transfers using its Horizon gangway following a sea acceptance test. For F2F operations, the gangway uses a purpose-designed flap at its tip instead of the docking head used for conventional fixed-structure landings. L

South Koreans Make Move to Cut Foreign Dependence with Domestic ROV Capability

South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution and Panstar Robotics, established by the Korea Institute of Robotics & Technology Convergence (KIRO), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly develop remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) that would be deployed domestically, in an effort to reduce

‘World’s Most Powerful’ Subsea Trencher Nears First Testing

NKT’s new subsea trencher, deemed the world’s most powerful, is approaching final assembly and entering the first round of testing, the Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm reported. NKT announced the investment in the NKT T-3600 trencher in June 2025, as part of its ongoing investm

Siemens Energy’s First Lightweight Offshore Substation Installed in China

Siemens Energy marked the first deployment of its lightweight integrated offshore substation at an offshore wind project, as the company’s new High-Voltage TranSwitch Unit (HV-TSU) has been installed at the Yuetuo Island Offshore Wind Farm in China. According to Siemens Energy, the substation integr

Stillstrom Demonstrates Automated Cable Control for Offshore Wind Vessel Charging

Encomara Prepares First Squid Floating Wind Connection System for Inshore Trials in Scotland

Aberdeen-based floating wind and subsea engineering company Encomara has begun preparations to trial its first Squid connection system for floating wind turbines at the Ardersier Energy Transition Facility in Scotland. The 40-tonne system, which has been under development for more than five years, i

Italian Startup Testing Offshore Wind Energy Storage Technology Off Calabria

Italian startup Sizable Energy has begun testing an offshore energy storage technology designed to store electricity generated by offshore wind farms and other renewable energy sources at the Natural Ocean Engineering Laboratory (NOEL) off the coast of Calabria, Italy. The demonstrator, installed in