Dutch contractor Visser & Smit Hanab has started installing the high-voltage cables that will connect the Windpark Fryslân offshore wind farm in the IJsselmeer to the Dutch grid. Visser & Smit Hanab will install two 25-kilometre cable sections in total to establish a connection to the high-voltage g
The Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK suffered a technical fault on 9 August due to grid problems. During the technical fault, the 1.2GW offshore wind farm significantly dropped its power production as it lost 800MW of electricity, around the same time as another generation source los
Jan De Nul’s vessel Taillevent has installed the first turbine at the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWBII) offshore wind farm. The 200MW TWBII wind farm will comprise 32 Senvion 6.2M152 turbines installed on monopile foundations at the site some 40km north of the island of Borkum in the German North S
Jumbo has completed the transport of all transition pieces for the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm from Thailand to the Taichung Port in Taiwan. Jumbo Kinetic transported the 20 transition pieces in three shipments from CUEL Limited’s yard in Laem Chabang in Thailand to the Taichung Port. Addit
EDS HV Group has completed cable installation, termination and testing work at the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm in Germany. The work was carried out as part of a contract with Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTT) signed at the beginning of last year. Back in March 2017, ZTT won a contract
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Blue Tern has installed the final turbine at the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm. The first of the project’s 71 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines was installed at the project site some 95km north of Borkum and 100km northwest of Helgoland in April. The 497MW Hohe
Iberdrola has entered into an agreement with Green Investment Group (GIG), part of Macquarie Group, to sell a 40% share in the East Anglia One offshore wind farm. Iberdrola will continue to be the majority shareholder with a 60% stake in the 714MW wind farm located offshore Suffolk in the UK. Accord
25 out of 33 MHI Vestas 8.4MW turbines have been installed at the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in Germany, according to Northland Power. The company emphasized that the construction of the project is progressing according to schedule and is on budget. Deutsche Bucht produced first power to the
Jan De Nul’s cable-laying vessel Willem de Vlamingh has completed the installation of the export cables on the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Under the EPCI contract, Jan De Nul installed 17 inter-array and three export cables at the 120MW offshore wind farm. According to the compan
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern is leaving the Port of Hull with the 19th loadout of turbines destined for installation at the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. According to the company, Bold Tern has so far installed 71 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at the project site some 120km of
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern is leaving the Port of Hull with the 19th loadout of turbines destined for installation at the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. According to the company, Bold Tern has so far installed 71 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at the project site some 120km of
Vattenfall has selected the Port of Hvide Sande as the operations and maintenance hub for the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in Denmark. Located on the Danish west coast, the port will be used as a base for O&M of the project’s 49 MHI Vestas V164-8.3MW turbines. Once Vattenfall establishes a facilit
124 out of 174 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines have been installed and commissioned at the Hornsea Project One wind farm in the UK, a spokesperson from Ørsted told Offshore WIND. Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern is in charge of installing 88 out of the 174 turbines, with A2SEA’s Sea Ch
Pipeshield International Ltd has loaded out the second phase scour protection for the East Anglia One offshore wind farm in the UK. Pipeshield manufactured and supplied more than 300 fronded concrete mattresses, which were loaded in stacks of six using the company’s high payload wet store bases. Usi
