TenneT, in collaboration with contractor Equans/Smulders, has placed several artificial reefs near the offshore transformer platform Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) to gain further knowledge about nature-inclusive construction. This offshore transformer platform will connect the Ecowende (Shell/Eneco) consortium wind farm to...
Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has awarded Fugro two geotechnical investigation contracts for the development of the Dutch Nederwiek wind farm sites II & III (noord). The contracts cover a total area of 600 km2 and involve the collection of comprehensive...
Van Oord’s new cable-laying vessel Calypso arrived in the Netherlands early this morning and has now officially been handed over to the company. The vessel will be christened in September in Rotterdam. The Calypso is Van Oord’s second cable-laying vessel...
The Directorate General of Energy and Climate (DGEC) from the French Ministry of Energy Transition and RTE (Réseau de Transport d’Electricité) have awarded Fugro a ground investigation campaign to support the development of future wind farms in the Sud-Atlantique zone...
TenneT has awarded cable specialists NKT and Prysmian to install the world’s largest offshore cable systems to date for Dutch 2 GW projects. NKT and Prysmian will install five 525 kV XLPE HVDC cable connections for Dutch 2 GW projects...
Dutch vessel operator Acta Marine has won a tender to provide a service operations vessel (SOV) for the Vattenfall-operated DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. The contract, awarded by DanTysk Sandbank Offshore Wind, a 51/49...
DHI, global provider of solutions that meet real-life challenges in water environments, has won a tender organised by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) for metocean assessment activities for two Dutch offshore wind farm zones. One of the wind farm zones...
This week, ASN Bank was the first financial institution to sign the Biodiversity Covenant of nature organisations North Sea Foundation (Stichting de Noordzee) and Natuur & Milieu. The Covenant stipulates that nature conservation and reinforcement will be taken into account...
Last week various sea trials were held with the crew tender COS Master on the Dutch Waddenzee. The COS Master is the first of two innovative Monomaran Crew tenders, of the Endurance 2727 design, that Coastwise Offshore Services B.V. (Coastwise)...
The western harbor area of Amsterdam is home to Prodock, an “incubator” for innovative startups with one shared goal: contributing to sustainability. ReefSystems is one of them. This Dutch startup was one of the nominees for the Offshore Wind Innovation...
