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....
Netherlands-based company LiftOff’s up-tower crane technology was recently used to perform the world-first Major Component Exchange (MCE) on an offshore floating wind turbine while it remained on site at the Scottish Kincardine Offshore Windfarm, located south east of Aberdeen. The...
Yesterday, the grand opening of Windplanblauw, the large-scale wind energy project in the northwest corner of the Dutch province of Flevoland took place. The wind farm is mostly locally owned. This makes it the wind farm that produces the most...
A start was made this week on the dismantling of the Willem-Annapolder Wind Farm (WAP I) from 2003 on the Westerschelde in ‘s-Gravenpolder, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. With the dismantling of the first wind turbine, a start will...
RWE announced today that TotalEnergies will acquire a 50% equity stake in the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. In addition, the two companies have taken the investment decision to build the 795 MW project. The OranjeWind project is...
A large industry consortium have started a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to make the C1 Wedge Connection by Dutch company C1 Connections, market ready for commercial scale deployment for both Monopile-Transition Piece connections as well as for Foundation to Tower...
Van Oord has been awarded the contract for the transport and installation (T&I) of the monopile foundations for the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster offshore wind project in Germany. The news follows after RWE announced the final investment decision for the projects...
Earlier this month, Ampelmann, the Dutch offshore access provider, has signed a new contract for two E1000 motion compensated systems to work in Taiwan onboard two multipurpose support vessels. The vessels will provide accommodation and walk to work services for...
As one of the eight signatories of last year’s Ostend declaration, pledging a target of 300 GW of offshore wind by 2050, the Netherlands plays a crucial role in the EU’s ambition to transform the North Sea into a renewable...
Today, 20 March 2024, the final blade was installed for Windplanblauw in the Dutch province of Flevoland. The installation took place nearshore, in the IJsselmeer lake. With both onshore and nearshore turbines now completed the project is counting down to...
