Ørsted’s £8.5bn Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm has signed a lease agreement at the Port of Tyne, one of the UK’s major deep sea ports. Up to 100,000sq m at Tyne Clean Energy Park in South Shields, will help with the construction and completion of the 2.9 GW offshore windfarm which, once complete, is expected… Read More
The U.S. Justice department intervened Sept. 27 in a lawsuit brought by New Jersey opponents of offshore wind power, with a motion asking the federal court to remand previous approvals for the already-stalled Atlantic Shores project. “This filing means federal agencies are going back to the drawing board,” said Bob Stern, president of the local… Read More
Many offshore operations take place partly above the waterline – like installing foundations for offshore wind farms or transporting heavy cargoes. However, through our subsidiary Gardline Limited, we also perform work deep below the surface: subsea drilling. Taking boreholes in an offshore wind farm or in an oil and gas field is necessary to map… Read More
We have successfully installed all 72 monopile foundations on Denmark’s largest wind farm, Thor. Thor will have an installed capacity of over one gigawatt, enough to power around one million Danish households with green electricity. For the crew of our installation vessel Les Alizés, it was the first project where they could use the motion… Read More
We were proud to join The Power of Offshore Wind on the Texas Gulf Coast forum at Texas A&M University Galveston Campus last week, where Oceantic Network’s Julia Gerringer presented an overview of the current U.S. offshore wind market, highlighted existing Gulf supply chain activity, and shared opportunities and challenges shaping the industry’s future. The day featured engaging panels and presentations, including:… Read More
100‑metre steel giants ready for Baltica 2 The first batch of monopile foundations for our Baltica 2 offshore wind project in Poland has rolled off the factory floor. At up to 100 metres long and 7.5–10.5 metres in diameter, they’re an impressive feat of engineering. Or as our Chief Construction Officer, Patrick Harnett, puts it:… Read More
DEME, through its Taiwanese joint venture CDWE, has secured a substantial contract1 for the Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan, covering the transport and installation of 35 foundations and the offshore substation, as well as the scour protection works. Formosa 4, developed by Taiwan-based Synera Renewable Energy, is located approximately 20 kilometers off the… Read More
COPENHAGEN, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Orsted (ORSTED.CO), opens new tab said on Wednesday it had resumed work on a U.S. offshore wind project after a federal judge on Monday ruled it could restart construction, opens new tab while the Trump administration’s legal case to fully halt the project continues. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a stop-work… Read More
1.5 GW farm offshore Normandy would produce beginning 2033 66 euro/megawatt-hour tariff is 47% higher than nearby tender given to EDF in 2023 RWE aims to exit, Total to seek new consortium partner Total executive says France needs new energy planning law to reassure industry Sept 24 (Reuters) – A consortium led by TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA), opens… Read More
Royal IHC and Swan Defence and Heavy Industries Limited (SDHI), India’s largest shipbuilding and heavy fabrication company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together in the build of Offshore Construction Vessels. The agreement, signed in collaboration with Alar Infrastructure, Royal IHC’s representative in India, marks a pivotal step in expanding Royal IHC’s footprint… Read More
TotalEnergies SE and RWE AG have won a French government tender to build the country’s largest offshore wind farm at the start of the coming decade, a €4.5 billion ($5.3 billion) project off the coast of Normandy. Centre Manche 2 is Total’s largest project in France for more than three decades, a 1.5 gigawatt operation in the English Channel… Read More
New Orleans, LA The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, today announced the Gulf of America Regional Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sales and Post-Lease Activities Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, a key milestone in advancing the Trump administration’s American Energy Dominance agenda. The notice of availability will publish in the Federal… Read More
Ten years of renewable energy from Borkum Riffgrund 1 Over the past decade, our first offshore wind farm in Germany, Borkum Riffgrund 1, has generated nearly 10 TWh of green electricity – that’s approx. 1 TWh every year, supplying the equivalent of around 10 % of Hamburg’s total annual electricity consumption. By harnessing the strong… Read More
US ruling offers temporary relieve for Orsted Risk of credit downgrade reduced, analyst say Project was 80% complete at time of work-stop order Orsted incurs weekly cost of $15.7 million for project COPENHAGEN, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Orsted (ORSTED.CO), opens new tab shares rose on Tuesday after a U.S. federal judge ruled it could resume work on… Read More
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has moved to block a Massachusetts offshore wind farm, its latest effort to hobble an industry and technology that President Donald Trump has attacked as “ugly” and unreliable compared to fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, filed a motion in federal court… Read More