Wind

Ocean Winds awarded a new seabed rights for offshore wind in Scotland

Monday, 17 January 2022 Robin Whitlock Engie’s joint venture Ocean Winds, held 50/50 with EDPR and dedicated to offshore wind, has been awarded the rights to develop new offshore wind generation capacity in the outer Moray Firth in Scotland, ...

Avangrid Renewables Takes Full Ownership of Commonwealth Wind

Wednesday, 12 January 2022 REM Iberdrola has formally concluded an agreement to take control of over 2,000 megawatts (MW) of US offshore wind capacity, consolidating its position as one of the largest developers of offshore wind in ...

Hornsea 2 Generates First Power

Wednesday, 05 January 2022 REM First power on Hornsea 2, which is located 89 km off the UK's east coast, was achieved after its offshore substation (OSS), the world’s largest offshore AC substation, and reactive compensation station ...

Germany

Siemens Gamesa to install the first of its SG 11.0-200 DD machines at Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farm

Tuesday, 21 December 2021 Robin Whitlock

Siemens Gamesa has announced it has received a firm order for the supply of wind turbines for Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 offshore development in the German North Sea.

SLPE awarded foundation detailed design contract for Inch Cap offshore wind farm

Tuesday, 14 December 2021 Robin Whitlock

Offshore engineering consultancy SLPE has been awarded the wind turbine generator (WTG) foundation detailed design contract for Red Rock Power Limited and ESB’s Inch Cape offshore wind farm.

Biral’s Visibility Sensors to Play Key Role In offshore wind farm

Monday, 13 December 2021 REM Leading meteorological expert, Biral, is supplying 140 of its SWS-050 visibility sensors to Hollandse Kust Zuid, which will be one of the biggest and first fully merchant offshore wind farms in the world. ...

VARD wins new North Star contract for an additional SOV to operate on Dogger Bank Wind Farm

Thursday, 09 December 2021 Robin Whitlock Designer and shipbuilder of specialised vessels VARD has secured a new contract for the design and construction of a Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for North Star Group in the UK, to support the third ...

UK Government investment in offshore wind manufacturing to bring Scottish jobs boost

Friday, 03 December 2021 Robin Whitlock A cash boost of more than £110 million in UK offshore wind manufacturing will support more than 400 jobs in North-East Scotland after the UK Government, Scottish Government and private investors pledged ...

Dogger Bank C secures financial close

Thursday, 02 December 2021 Robin Whitlock GE Financial Services has announced that the world's largest offshore wind farm project, Dogger Bank, reached financial close on debt financing for the third 1.2 GW phase C. Dogger Bank Wind Farm is located ...

South Korea

HHI receives an Approval in Principle for Hi-Float floating offshore wind turbine foundation

Wednesday, 01 December 2021 Robin Whitlock Testing, inspection, and certification company Bureau Veritas (BV), has delivered an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd (HHI) for its design and development of “Hi-Float”, ...