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DEME has been awarded a substantial¹ contract for the transport and installation of foundations for phase 1 of the Zeevonk offshore wind project in the Netherlands. Zeevonk, jointly owned by Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) through its Energy Investment Fund I, will have a total installed capacity of approximately 1 GW. Under the contract,… Read More
Van Oord has completed the rock installation works for Ecowende’s Hollandse Kust West offshore wind farm. Our vessels, Bravenes and Nordnes, installed a total of 300,000 tonnes of rock, protecting turbine foundations and critical cable infrastructure. A key milestone was the successful stabilisation of all cable protection systems and the installation of eco-rock berms, including… Read More
By Patrick Zemanek A group of US Senate Democrats is investigating agreements between President Donald Trump’s administration and project developers that have collectively abandoned nine offshore wind leases in return for more than $2.7bn in financial reimbursements and pledges to invest in various other energy projects. The senators on 17 July called on four companies that have… Read More
BY GEORGIA FEARN Nine states are threatening to sue the Trump administration over offshore-wind exit deals involving Invenergy and three other developers: Bluepoint Wind, TotalEnergies, and Golden State Wind. In the case of Chicago-based Invenergy, the Interior Department cancelled three leases held by subsidiaries off California and Maine and moved to seek nearly $120 million in… Read More
By Brianna Fallon CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Two major manufacturing projects are moving forward in Hampton Roads, bringing hundreds of jobs and expanding the region’s role in the growing U.S. offshore wind industry. Officials said the investments from the projects are expected to create between 700 and 800 jobs while strengthening the domestic supply chain for… Read More
By Alistair Sterling President Donald Trump is using national security arguments to stop offshore wind power development, setting off a fresh clash with states that say the federal government is overreaching. California is threatening a lawsuit over federal offshore wind lease buyouts, while Oregon and Washington have stepped into litigation against Trump’s Pentagon block on wind… Read More
HELSINKI, July 16 (Reuters) – Sweden’s government has granted permission for two new offshore wind farms and one onshore project while rejecting several other proposed developments, three ministers said in an op-ed published in Swedish daily Expressen on Thursday. Fyrskeppet wind farm in the southern Bothnian Sea and the Vidar project in northern Skagerrak could… Read More
By Maria Gallucci America’s offshore wind farms have already shown their ability to keep electricity flowing during brutal winter storms. Now, the clean energy resource has proved it can also bolster the grid during major heat waves. Earlier this month, as dangerously hot and humid temperatures settled over the eastern United States, two wind projects near New England consistently… Read More
A joint study by Politecnico di Torino and WindEurope identifies what the Mediterranean needs to grow its offshore wind sector. Published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, the study finds that clear rules, strong infrastructure and grid readiness matter as much as technology. The goal is to turn the region’s wind potential into real, competitive projects,… Read More
By Nick Zenkin On March 20, Energy Secretary Chris Wright broke ground on a stretch of federal land in Piketon, Ohio, once home to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which spent the Cold War enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. That site, leased by Softbank subsidiary SB Energy, is now part of what the Department of… Read More
Boskalis’ semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Trustee will make multiple voyages over the coming months between Bilbao, Spain and Teesworks in the northeast of the United Kingdom. The vessel will serve as a courier for dozens of monopile foundations, each measuring an average of 90 meters in length and weighing more than 1,600 tons, destined for… Read More
By Abby Butler A historic milestone for offshore wind energy in Poland: at the Baltic Power farm – a joint venture of ORLEN and Northland Power – the first turbines have passed the required tests and supplied first offshore wind power to the national energy grid. Polskie Sieci Energetyczne confirmed the receipt of energy at… Read More
Boskalis’ cable-laying vessel Ndurance recently made a significant contribution to the development of an offshore wind farm in France. Over the past few weeks, the vessel installed 31 inter-array cables, connecting the wind turbines of the 496 MW wind farm to the offshore substation. The Ndurance carried out the project after a busy period in… Read More
BorWin6 land station continues to advance in Büttel, Germany, with key milestones including main transformer installation, completion of the converter hall steel structure and the start of DC cable conduit work – bringing us closer to connecting North Sea offshore wind to Germany’s grid. Source
Pacific Maritime Group in action! Our Ocean Provider barge, alongside tug AN Tillett and crew boat DM Tapper, off the California coast. Through teamwork, expertise, and close collaboration with our customers, we turn ideas into reality. Source