East Anglia One Team Tables Cable Talks
ScottishPower Renewables is holding public information days in Suffolk, UK, about the upcoming installation of cables which will connect the East Anglia One offshore wind farm to the national grid.
View ArticleVineyard Wind Connector Undergoes Environmental Review
The Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Office has begun an environmental review of the proposed Vineyard Wind Connector transmission project.
View ArticleRentel Makes Topside Travel Arrangements
Rentel NV will start the transport of the offshore transformer substation topside built for the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm from the assembly yard in Saint-Nazaire, France to the installation site...
View ArticleMerkur OSS Topside to Marry Its Foundation Today
The 2,660t topside for the Merkur offshore substation was lifted yesterday, 11 January, from a transport barge to the Oleg Strashnov heavy lift vessel, which is expected to install it on its foundation...
View ArticleRentel OSS Topside on Its Way to Belgium
The topside for the Rentel offshore substation left the Saint-Nazaire Port last night and is now sailing to Belgium.
View ArticleEDS Lands Hohe See Cable Termination & Testing Contract
High voltage engineering specialist, EDS HV Group (EDS), part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has been awarded a contract to complete cable termination and testing work at the Hohe See offshore wind farm...
View ArticleVan Oord Adds Swan Hunter to Norther Team
Swan Hunter has secured the Norther offshore wind farm export cable storage contract for Van Oord.
View ArticleTenneT Already Meets 82% of Germany’s 2020 Offshore Wind Target
TenneT's offshore grid connection systems connect a total capacity of 5,332MW of offshore wind energy to land and have thus met more than 82% of the Federal Government's expansion target that envisages...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Normand Jarstein and Ampelmann in German Connection
Tideway B.V., part of DEME Group, has shared a photo of the DP2 Accommodation and Walk-to-Work (W2W) vessel Normand Jarstein working on the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm.
View ArticleVIDEO: J. Murphy & Sons Laying Hornsea One Cables
J. Murphy & Sons is currently installing the onshore portion of cables that will connect Orsted's 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm to the UK grid.
View ArticlePoland Ripe for Offshore Wind Boom
Poland could have 4GW of installed offshore wind capacity in the Baltic Sea by the end of 2030 and 8GW by the end of 2035, according to the Foundation for Sustainable Energy (FNEZ).
View ArticleACE Winches Reels In Beatrice Cable Work
ACE Winches is currently working on the Beatrice offshore wind farm project located in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.
View ArticleKriegers Flak Foundations Arrive in Denmark
A barge loaded with two gravity-based foundations (GBFs) for the high voltage station of the 605MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm has arrived in Koge, Denmark, Blue Water Shipping (BWS), the port...
View ArticleORE Catapult Opens Electrical Infrastructures Research Hub Call
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is seeking to partner with a UK-based university to accelerate electrical infrastructure research and development activities relating to offshore renewable...
View ArticleMasdar and Statoil Ink Batwind Pact
Abu Dhabi-based Masdar and Norway's Statoil have signed a collaborative agreement to analyse data from the Batwind battery system designed to store energy generated by the Hywind Scotland floating wind...
View ArticlePhoto of the Day: Siemens OTM Jacket Gears Up for Beatrice
The jacket foundation for a Siemens Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) has been loaded onto a barge destined for the Beatrice offshore wind farm, after undergoing final preparations at BiFab's yard in...
View ArticleMaine Aqua Ventus Abandons Port Clyde Landfall Option
The consortium behind the Maine Aqua Ventus demonstration project has reportedly decided to stop investigating the Port Clyde route as one of the preferred for the transmission link to the mainland....
View ArticleHSM Offshore Putting Together Borkum Riffgrund 2 OSS Topside
HSM Offshore, the EPC contractor for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore substation, installed the two transformers that make the topside structure on 13 January. The topside left the construction hall for...
View ArticleOMM in Baltic Sea Boulder Dash
Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has cleared 5,000+ boulders from a 30km area in the German Baltic Sea, creating the pathway for an export cable to connect an offshore wind farm to the shore landing site.
View ArticleRentel OSS Topside Waiting for Better Weather
The installation of the offshore transformer substation topside for the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea has been postponed, DEME Group told Offshore WIND.
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