Site investigations have officially started for the 2 GW Zeevonk offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, co-owner of the wind farm reported. The activities are performed with partner Fugro. Using a fleet of advanced survey...
Sif today announced the successful manufacturing of the first monopile for the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project in US waters at their newly expanded facilities at Maasvlakte 2, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Empire Wind 1 is a project by Equinor...
Boskalis’ semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Blue Marlin recently unloaded the last monopiles in the port of La Rochelle in France, destined for the 488 MW Eoliennes en Mer Iles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier offshore wind farm. With this final load,...
North Sea Farmers reached another milestone in the construction of the world’s very first commercial-scale offshore seaweed farm within an wind farm with the successful installation of pre-seeded nets. With this final deployment step, the seaweed farm North Sea Farm...
UK energy regulator Ofgem has approved the Initial Project Assessment for LionLink, the first hybrid interconnector in the North Sea connecting the UK and the Netherlands. The project is referred to as a hybrid Interconnector because it will connect the...
Sif Group will supply 64 monopiles for ScottishPower’s East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm in the UK. In addition, the company, in a joint venture with Smulders, will also supply 64 transition pieces (TPs). The monopiles will be manufactured in...
Ørsted and Van Oord, through their initiative Ocean Health, have installed innovative Droppable Oyster Structures in the Borssele 1&2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea off the coast of Vlissingen. The installation marks an important milestone in the...
Boskalis reported that it has successfully completed an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey in the Polish section of the Baltic Sea. The survey was performed in preparation of the future offshore wind farm Baltic Power. Many thousands of bombs, mines and...
Artificial reefs in offshore wind farms seem to be beneficial for cod. Cod seem to be attracted by the reefs and even stay there for longer periods of time, more so than with conventional erosion protection. This is according to...
One of the wind turbines at the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm off the coast of the Dutch towns of Zandvoort and Noordwijk caught fire over the weekend. Co-owner Eneco was informed of this at the end of Saturday morning....
