On Wednesday, 10 July, at the Netherlands Offshore Wind Q-meeting, TKI Wind op Zee presented the new report on employment in the Dutch offshore wind industry. The report provides insight into the number of people and the competences that are required to sucessfully enroll offshore wind in Dutch waters up to 2023. The objective of the…
Today, 10 July, RVO.nl (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) announced the winner of the tender for the 760 MW Hollandse Kust (zuid) 3 & 4 offshore wind development site. It will be the second subsidy-free offshore wind farm to be built in Dutch waters. In March 2018, the Swedish company also won the permit for the subsidy-free…
North Sea Wind Power Hub (NSWPH) Consortium presented today, 9 July, the results of an assessment into the possibility and conditions required to build one or several wind power hubs in the North Sea to facilitate the large scale roll-out and integration of far offshore wind. The results show that the proposed Hub-and-Spoke concept is…
On 8 July, a start was made on the installation of the first wind turbine at the De Drentse Monden en Oostermoer Wind Farm. This took place along the Drentse Mondenweg at 1e Exloermond. Providing the weather remains favourable, the installation could be completed by the end of this week. Start of construction commenced after…
Royal Boskalis and Taiwanese Hwa Chi Construction Co have been awarded a preferred bidder agreement by Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for its Chang Fang and Xidao offshore wind farm projects in Taiwan. The contract is for the transport and installation of offshore foundations. The two companies have set up a joint venture for…
Sif Holding n.v. has been awarded a contract for the manufacturing of 84 monopiles for the 800 MW Vineyard Wind offshore wind project. Located around 14 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, it will be the first large-scale wind farm to rise in US waters. Sif will manufacture the monopiles and store them at its Maasvlakte 2 facility…
This week, 3 of the 4 tower sections that will carry GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X 12MW wind turbine prototype, were installed at on Sif Group’s site at Maasvlakte, in the port of Rotterdam. The tower sections were produced by GRI in Seville, Spain. A fourth tower section will be mounted on the existing tower once…
Recruitment agency Atlas Professionals and Star of the South are going to perform a study on the availability of labour and vessel resources for Australia’s proposed first offshore wind farm, Star of the South. Star of the South is being developed by the original Australian developers who founded the project in 2012 and international infrastructure…
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy will announce the winner of the Hollandse Kust (zuid) 3 & 4 wind farm zone sites next Wednesday, July 10, at 6PM (CET). Four interested parties submitted their bids in the subsidy-free tender for the two offshore wind zone sites, which closed in March of this year.…
Danish provider of offshore service vessels A1 Offshore Solutions ApS and lifting and offshore equipment specialist KenzFigee have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly offer a cost efficient and safe Walk-to-Work vessel solution. The Walk-2-Work solution comprises A1 Offshore Solutions’ offshore support vessel ‘Notus Express’, equipped with a Kenz Figee Active Motion Compensated (ACM) access…
