Siemens has secured an order from Semco Maritime to provide the main electrical equipment for the electrical service platform (ESP) of the Mayflower Wind offshore wind farm. The project is located in a federal lease area approximately 25 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts in the United States,
PGE Group has obtained grid connection terms for the 896 MW Baltica 1 offshore wind project in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea. Polish transmission system operator Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne issued the terms concerning the technical connection conditions, including the connection capacity a
ENGIE Fabricom and Iemants have started engineering work on the Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore transformer station, with construction work for the topside and the jacket scheduled to start in October. As previously reported, TenneT TSO selected the ENGIE Fabricom – Iemants joint venture to cons
Eversendai Offshore cut the first steel for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Beta offshore substation platform on 28 May. The United Arab Emirates-based company, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s Eversendai Corporation Berhad, is in charge of manufacturing athe jacket foundation and accompany
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted a €450 million credit line for co-financing the construction of the Fécamp offshore wind project in France. According to EIB, this is the first such operation it is financing in France, reinforcing the objectives set by its shareholders to make it the E
French company Naval Energies has joined the Offshore Wind California coalition, which gathers offshore wind developers and technology companies supporting a goal of 10 GW of installed offshore wind capacity in California by 2040. “We look forward to working with the Naval Energies team as we advanc
Energia Wind 2020 srl, part of the Italian energy company 3R Energia srl, has submitted an application to the Italian government for a 30-year concession of an area in Italy’s sector of the Adriatic Sea, where it plans to build a 330 MW offshore wind farm. The application outlines a site some off th
Capital expenditure (CAPEX) on offshore wind is expected to surpass upstream oil & gas spending in Europe in 2022, according to Rystad Energy. The oil market collapse caused by the Covid-19 pandemic is set to delay several oil and gas developments in Western Europe, putting capital expenditure in th
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has awarded BioConsult SH with a contract for ecological investigations of benthos and fish in the N-6.6 and N-6.7 offshore wind areas. The company will carry out the preliminary investigation of the areas to assess their suitability for the c
German transport company Fraport AG plans to procure electricity generated at wind farms selected in Germany’s last two offshore wind auctions. Fraport AG, the operator of the Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt am Main, intends to sign one or more power purchase agreements (PPAs) with offshore wind farm
Spectrum Geosurvey has secured a construction survey support contract for Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind project in the UK. Under the two-year contract, Spectrum will provide on-demand geophysical survey capacity for the wind farm. “We are delighted to secure another long-term contract allowing
1,400 GW of offshore wind globally by 2050 is entirely achievable considering the resource potential, technology innovation, and government appetite to position offshore wind at the centre of the global energy transition, the Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition (OREAC) said. OREAC estimates that
Nexans Norway has been awarded a contract for the supply and installation of export cables for the Seagreen 1 offshore wind farm, after being chosen as a preferred supplier in 2019. The Norwegian company will design, manufacture and install three 65-kilometre offshore export cables and three 20-kilo
Two wind farm support vessels (WFSVs) are currently being built for the Akita Noshiro project, the first large-scale offshore wind farm in Japan established on a commercial basis. The two 27m WFSVs, designed by BMT, are being constructed by Cheoy Lee Shipyards at its Hin Lee (Zhuhai) Shipyard facili
