Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has appointed GAC UK to provide shipping services support during the construction and installation of foundations, inter-array cables and offshore substations at the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm. SHL, the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI)
The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of joint control over Norther NV by Diamond Offshore Wind Holdings II BV of the Netherlands, Eneco Wind Belgium NV and Elnu NV, a subsidiary of Elicio NV, all of Belgium. The Commission concluded that the
Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm is due to begin a second round of site survey works in Lincolnshire next week, as it builds a detailed picture of local ground conditions at various locations along the entire 60km cable route. The survey results will be crucial to designing the best approach to the i
The developers of the 900MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm have welcomed the UK government’s confirmation that the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction will open in April 2017, adding that the project is well prepared to submit a bid into the next auction and is in an excellent position to c
The developers of the 900MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm have welcomed the UK government’s confirmation that the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction will open in April 2017, adding that the project is well prepared to submit a bid into the next auction and is in an excellent position to c
German utility EnBW’s Renewable Energies department recorded an operating result (adjusted EBITDA) of EUR 223.2 million in the first nine months of 2016, a 42.8% jump compared to EUR 156.3 million EBITDA reported for the first three quarters of 2015, mainly due to the full commissioning of the EnBW
Dutch transmission systems operator TenneT has awarded a consortium of VBMS and NKT Cables with a contract to supply and install two export cables that will connect the Borssele I & II offshore wind farms to TenneT’s onshore grid in the Netherlands. The contract value of VBMS’ share is approximately
DNV GL has awarded Vattenfall with a final statement of compliance for its DanTysk offshore accommodation platform recently installed in the North Sea. This is the first offshore platform in the North Sea to host up to 50 operation and maintenance staff members working at the 288MW DanTysk offshore
Galloper Wind Farm Limited (GWFL) has agreed a lease in principle with Harwich International Port for an Operations & Maintenance (O&M) base for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm. GWFL is currently pursuing planning permission in relation to this, Toby Edmonds, Project Director, Galloper Wind Fa
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ Office of Coastal Zone Management and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center will host public information meetings to discuss recent and upcoming planning and assessment activities related to future offshore wind projects in fede
VBMS has recently executed the first export cable shore landing for the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm utilising its newly invented method for lowering the cable onto the seabed by using a remotely controlled progressive buoyancy release system which eliminates the need for divers, wet riggers or
J. Murphy & Sons has begun installing underground cables in North Lincolnshire for what will be the world’s biggest wind farm, DONG Energy’s 1.2GW Hornsea Project One. The cable route will run approximately 38km from the landfall site at Horseshoe Point to the onshore substation at North Killingholm
DONG Energy has awarded JDR with a contract to supply subsea power cables for the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, the largest array cable award in the company’s history. The contract will see JDR design and manufacture 242km of array cables, covering two thirds of the total wind farm c
From summer 2019, A2SEA will be installing 102 Siemens 7MW turbines at the East Anglia ONE offshore wind site, situated approximately 45 kilometres off the Suffolk Coast in the southern North Sea. A2SEA, which signed the turbine installation contract today, will deploy its offshore wind installation
