Italy’s Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has been awarded a contract by the Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT to carry out a marine route survey in the Netherlands. The contract, worth approximately €43 million, involves extensive geophysical and geotechnical activities, both offshor
Italy’s Prysmian has signed a framework agreement with the French transmission system operator (TSO) Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE) to provide submarine power cable links that will connect two offshore wind farms to the French transmission grid. Under the contract, Prysmian will be responsi
Google has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for 250 MW of energy capacity at the Zeevonk offshore wind project in the Netherlands.
The UK’s underwater industry has grown from £8 billion to £9.2 billion in the last 12 months, now supporting over 51,000 jobs. Thereby, the Global Underwater Hub (GUH) has called on the UK Government to recognize the scale and potential of the industry and to deliver an industrial strategy to boost
The Nederwiek IB offshore wind site in the Netherlands, which was initially planned to be part of the upcoming tender in 2025, is expected to be added to the 2026 round as the Dutch government assesses the impact a wind farm there could have on accessing a nearby gas transfer platform. A gas project
UAE-based Drydocks World, in partnership with GE Vernova, has secured a contract to build and install Ostwind 4, a 2 GW offshore wind grid connection in Germany. Ostwind 4 will connect Baltic Sea offshore wind farms to the national grid using high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology. This will
Inch Cape Offshore Limited, a joint venture between Red Rock Power Limited and ESB, has awarded TKF with a turnkey contract to supply and install inter-array cables at the Inch Cape offshore wind farm. Additionally, Vestas has secured a firm order to deliver its V236-15.0 MW wind turbines to the 1.1
Ørsted has awarded several contracts totaling between £75 million and £100 million to companies in the north of England to provide components for the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm. JDR Cable Systems, Severfield, and Smulders, all based in the north of England, will produce integral components
Security is a topic that has expanded in the last couple of years, bringing new worries to Europe. With a number of incidents occurring in European seas that harmed subsea (energy) infrastructure, seabed security made its way onto one of the first places on the energy security chart. A panel at Offs
Ocean Winds, a 50/50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has contracted Føn Energy Services to provide a fully integrated Balance of Plant (BoP) operations and maintenance (O&M) service program for the Moray East and Moray West offshore wind farms in Scotland. The contract is valid for t
Proserv has been awarded a contract by DEME Offshore to de-risk offshore wind operations at Dogger Bank C, the third phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm project in the UK. According to Proserv, the company will utilize its Electro Cable Guard (ECG) system to identify signs of transmission cabl
Denmark-headquartered power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT has appointed ABB to electrify its high-voltage submarine power cable factory in Karlskrona, Sweden. To remind, on the back of a record order backlog and strong market outlook, NKT announced investments in a new cable-laying ve
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has allocated over $18 million for 27 research and development (R&D) projects to advance marine energy and offshore wind technologies. According to the U.S. DOE, these initiatives, which will be undertaken across 17 universities, including five minority-serving in
The German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has selected ABL to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services for the subsea cable interconnections between two of Germany’s offshore wind farms and the DolWin6 offshore converter station. The three subsea cables to be installed between the N-
