National Grid and Ørsted have begun mobilizing teams that will work on replacing limited segments of the Block Island wind farm and sea2shore transmission cables to achieve greater burial depths. Construction-related activities will be ongoing throughout the fall and winter, with an anticipated comp
Semco Maritime has won a contract to carry out a study on the electrical infrastructure for European Energy’s Omø South and Jammerland Bay nearshore wind farms in Denmark. The scope of the study comprises optimization of the electrical infrastructure, electrical grid studies and evaluating several s
Of the three offshore wind farms that Denmark decided to tender as of this year in its Energy Agreement from 2018, the last one planned to be offered for development has recently been added to the 5 GW offshore energy islands plan in a new Energy Agreement in 2020. The two energy islands are expecte
The jacket foundation for the offshore substation at the Hornsea Two offshore wind project in the UK has been installed. The installation of the 4,800-tonne jacket marks the start of the project’s offshore construction. Six weeks ago, 10,000 tonnes of steel framework for the pin piles, reactor compe
Elia and 50Hertz have awarded DNV GL with a contract for certification and monitoring services for the offshore platforms that will be part of offshore grid connection projects in Belgium and Germany. Under the contract, the company will provide the services for offshore grid connections in the Belg
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued a contract notice seeking meteorological measurement services at an offshore wind zone in the North Sea. The aim of the tendered services is to generate the most accurate information possible about the wind conditions in several are
Hellenic Cables has secured a contract with DEME Offshore to supply the inter-array cables and accessories for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm in the UK. Hellenic Cables will design, manufacture, test and supply approximately 650 km of 66 kV XLPE-insulated inter-array cables and associated access
Atlantique Offshore Energy has kicked off the construction of the offshore substation for the Fécamp offshore wind project in France. The first steel for the electrical substation was cut on 30 September at Chantiers de l’Atlantique’s shipyard in Saint-Nazaire. The company is constructing the substa
Elia and 50Hertz have selected GEO.XYZ and G-TEC to provide geotechnical engineering services in the Belgian North Sea and the German Baltic Sea. The selected companies are in charge of providing the geotechnical survey and soil sampling for submarine power cables. GEO.XYZ will carry out drilling fr
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has discontinued the tender procedure seeking certification of site studies performed for the 4 GW IJmuiden Ver offshore wind zone. The procedure has been terminated due to RVO not receiving a suitable tender, offshoreWIND has learned. RVO will now, in accorda
EDS HV Group has won a five-year framework contract with RWE Renewables to provide cable fault response and repair services across the energy company’s wind farms offshore the UK. Under the framework agreement, EDS will manage all aspects of cable fault response by mobilising engineers to test and i
The joint venture between ENGIE Solutions and Iemants, a subsidiary of Smulders, has cut the first steel for the topside of the offshore transformer station for the Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm zone in the Netherlands. The joint venture partners, together with TenneT representatives, officially ma
Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock has signed a contract with Aibel for the supply of a cylinder-luffing crane for TenneT’s DolWin Epsilon offshore transformer platform, part of the DolWin5 offshore grid in Germany. The Liebherr crane will be used for supply and maintenance tasks on the 900 MW offshore grid co
Van Oord has started installing the export cables which will connect the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust (zuid) offshore wind farm to the Dutch grid, TenneT said. For the first ten kilometres of the cable route at sea, the four export cables will have to be buried more than 5,5 metres into the seabed in order
