Offshore Renewables

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The floating platform for offshore wind developed by French company BW Ideol over the past few years has been standardised and will go into mass production in what the company calls its…

25th April 2024

BW Ideol unveils floating platform mass production

25th April 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Denmark is pushing the boat out when it comes to offshore wind with a 6GW procurement process launched this week.

25th April 2024

Denmark opens landmark €14 billion offshore wind process

25th April 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Floating offshore wind project Green Volt, led by Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, has been granted offshore planning approval.

24th April 2024

Green light for Scottish floating offshore wind project

24th April 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Installation will begin on Poland’s first two offshore wind farms this year, owners Equinor and Polenergia have confirmed.

24th April 2024

Polish 1.4GW wind farms to begin installation

24th April 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A Vard Design-led consortium says batteries are the proven technology for the future’s vessels now that offshore charging is a proven concept.

23rd April 2024

Consortium says offshore charging is proven

23rd April 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Steel has been cut for the offshore HVDC platforms that will convert the power generated at the Norfolk Vanguard wind farms recently sold by Vattenfall to RWE.

22nd April 2024

Steel cut for offshore platforms project

22nd April 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Seatools has successfully delivered and put to use its pre-piling template equipment at the Hai Long Offshore Wind Farm project in Taiwan.

22nd April 2024

Seatools pre-piling deployed at Taiwan wind farm

22nd April 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

RWE is ready to take the next step in the construction of its Thor Offshore Wind Farm in the Danish North Sea.

19th April 2024

Onshore cable works begin at Thor

19th April 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

Chartwell Marine has announced that a new Chartwell Brevity Class Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) entered build in March at the Diverse Marine shipyard in Cowes, UK.

17th April 2024

Chartwell Marine expands its CTV build programme

17th April 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

DEME’s flagship Orion has completed monopile installation works on Ocean Winds’ Moray West offshore windfarm project in Scotland.

16th April 2024

DEME progresses Moray Firth monopile installation project

16th April 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Potentially the largest offshore wind farm in the US, Sunrise Wind, has been given the go-ahead by the BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management), clearing one of the obstacles to development.

11th April 2024

Sunrise over New York for offshore wind

11th April 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The Baltic nation of Latvia has signed a contract with Dutch engineering giant Van Oord to build one of the first offshore wind farms in the country.

9th April 2024

Latvia embarks on offshore wind voyage

9th April 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

Norway-based Edda Wind has taken delivery of a new service operation vessel (SOV) to operate at the St Brieuc offshore wind farm being operated by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy.

8th April 2024

SOV launched to work on French OSW farm

8th April 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

Two of the best-known firms in offshore installation have signed a long-term agreement to build a much-needed new vessel.

8th April 2024

Agreement signed to build A-Class WTIV

8th April 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Energy company OX2 and Ingka, which owns IKEA, announced plans to develop a 370-turbine offshore wind farm with the latest 15MW sized machines, at 370 metres tall.

5th April 2024

Massive offshore wind farm announced for Sweden

5th April 2024

EVENTS

EVENTS

Glasgow’s SEC will host the All-Energy 2024 exhibition and conference, which will be co-located with ‘DCarbonise’.

4th April 2024

All-Energy Glasgow 2024 opens for registration

4th April 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

A second newbuild CSOV has been christened by Vard for the Norwegian offshore wind developer Norwind Offshore.

4th April 2024

2nd CSOV launched for Norwind Offshore

4th April 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Swedish utility Vattenfall has just announced it will enter a bid for the Alpha and Beta offshore wind farms that make up the Dutch IJmuiden Ver offshore wind tender.

3rd April 2024

Vattenfall mixes offshore wind messages

3rd April 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

As the number of offshore wind projects burgeons, Dutch engineering firm Kenc admits it’s ‘all hands on deck’ to keep up with demand – not least because of the increasing size of…

2nd April 2024

Deme awards contracts for OSW portfolio

2nd April 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The final phase of engineering to equip Aberdeen’s harbour to make it a hub for offshore wind has been ‘prioritised’ by the authorities in Scotland.

2nd April 2024

Scotland rubberstamps dredging for OSW hub

2nd April 2024