This wind farm, with 80 locally manufactured 6MW wind turbines, is located between 12 and 20 km off the coast of Guérande and will be operational before the end of 2022 and is the result of a €2.2b public investment. Sarens, world reference in heavy lifting, engineered transport and crane rental, has been involved since 2021 in the load-in, load-out, transport and storage of monopiles and transition pieces weighing up to 980t at the port of La Rochelle, from where they were transferred to their final destination. Read more
Siemens Gamesa, Arise and Foresight Group will collaborate for another major project in Sweden using the company’s most competitive onshore platform, the Siemens Gamesa 5.X. The project will be acquired by Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners, Foresight Group’s flagship energy transition fund. Read more
Memorandum of Understanding covers investigations on several Korea-focused fronts including construction of new Korean production facilities. Non-binding agreement envisioned as paving the way towards expanding Korean offshore wind industry. Read more
The Jülich Research Centre in Germany is evaluating the construction and operation of a large test stand for drive trains of wind turbines with gearboxes. The Centre for Wind Power Drives (CWD) of the RWTH Aachen is participating in a corresponding feasibility study and is interested in using the test rig later. Read more
On 19 May, the installation vessel Sea Power erected the last of the 111 turbines at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm. Now, ahead awaits the job of having all of them delivering electricity to the Danish grid. More than 75 wind turbines are already in operation. Read more
Three months after the inauguration of the prototype production facility in Sassnitz / Mukran on the German island of Rügen, Euros Entwicklungsgesellschaft für Windkraftanlagen mbH has delivered and shipped the first offshore rotor blade to their customer Mitsubishi.
The rotor blades of this type, which have a length of 81.6 m and a mass of 32.5 t, are intended for use on Mitsubishi's 7 MW turbine. It will be installed for the first time on the coast of Scotland near Glasgow as well as in Fukushima, Japan Read more
EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN) and wpd offshore have announced the signing of a partnership agreement. The agreement formalizes both groups’ decision to combine their expertise in the French government’s second call for offshore wind tenders. Alstom will be the exclusive partner for the supply of wind turbines. Read more
According to the involved companies, the first commercial offshore wind measurement campaign using floating Lidar in European waters has kicked off. FLiDAR NV has deployed a Lidar buoy for Dong Energy in the southern East Irish Sea. The partnership initially involves a one year measurement campaign in the Irish Sea. Read more
Seajacks International, offshore installation contractor, has entered into a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries to build an offshore wind farm installation vessel. The vessel has been specifically designed to meet the demands associated with working UK Round 3, Scottish territorial waters and the other North West European markets. Read more
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