Author: Anela Dokso

First 8MW wind turbine has been installed at Borssele 1&2 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. This is the first out of 94 Siemens Gamesa wind turbines that will be installed at the site, Ørsted said on its social media. Sea Challenger vessel loads the turbine components in Port Esbjerg, prior to transporting them to the installation site around 22 kilometers off the coast of the Zeeland Province. Borssele 1&2 is expected to be completed by the end of 2020 and will have total capacity of 752MW. When completed the project will become the largest offshore wind farm in the…

A business covenant from the programme Partners for International Business (PIB) has been signed. A group of Dutch businesses and knowledge institutions are partnering up to help advance the offshore wind industry in the United States of America (USA), with the support of the Government of the Netherlands. This public-private partnership focuses on the exchange of knowledge, network building and positioning the Dutch industry in the northeast of the USA. The goal of the PIB group is to establish the Netherlands as a strategic trade and knowledge partner for the American market. By exchanging knowledge, the group wants to generate…

CWind has received a contract from ScottishPower Renewables for work on the East Anglia ONE offshore wind project. CWind will provide subsea maintenance of the foundations and offshore substation, subsea surveys, corrective maintenance, as well as pre-engineering studies. The three-year contract, worth up to £8.2 million, will see the company’s staff working both onshore and offshore servicing the wind farm. There are options for two further one-year extensions. “We are thrilled that ScottishPower has chosen CWind to manage the balance of plant for below water services for East Anglia ONE,” said Nathanael Allison, managing director at CWind. “This contract supports…

SIMEC Atlantis, the global developer, owner and operator of sustainable energy projects, has seen minimal impact on the business from the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst the situation across the company’s portfolio of projects requires constant monitoring and reassessment, Atlantis has seen minimal disruption to its tidal business with MeyGen in Scotland continuing to export power to the grid. In addition, the company expects that it will be able to maintain current contractual commitments to deliver equipment and services to clients in Japan and Scotland this year. The Green Highland Renewables (GHR) business has 45 contracts with operating hydro schemes that…

ENGIE North America has signed a major tax equity financing for its renewables portfolio consisting of 1.5 GW of onshore wind and 0.5 GW of utility-scale solar PV projects – 11 farms in total. These assets are located in key markets, including Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland Power Pool (PJM), the company informed. Through the transaction and subject to meeting certain funding conditions, ENGIE North America has secured financing through tax equity commitments of up to $1.6 billion on the projects through Bank of America and HSBC. Projects will be…

TKF has secured a contract by Seaway 7 for the delivery of 33 kV inner array cables for the Kaskasi offshore wind farm project by innogy, located in the German North Sea. The scope of TKF includes the manufacturing and delivery of 52 kilometers 33kV aluminium core inner array grid cables with different cross sections. In addition, TKF will provide the associated cable accessories for this project. The offshore wind farm Kaskasi is located 35 kilometers north of the island Heligoland and comprises of 38 Siemens Gamesa wind turbines of with a capacity of up to 9 MW. The installation…

Eager.one has been contracted by Van Oord to provide a new type of anode cage installation tool. The anode cage will be installed over monopile from Van Oord’s floating vessel Svanen. The challenge presented to the Eager.one team was to design an installation aid that can install the anode cage over the monopile, while preventing collision between the two. Based on the requirements the company has designed and constructed the Anode Cage Installation Aid (ACIA). Installing the anode cage directly over the monopile is not possible due to the motions of the vessel and marginal tolerances. Therefore the ACIA, with…

SSE Renewables and Greencoat Renewables, joint owners of Galway Wind Park, have launched a €70,000 COVID-19 response fund to support local communities around the wind farm in Connemara, Galway. The funding, which is being made immediately available, will support community groups that are currently mobilizing a rapid response to support those most-in-need as a direct result of the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak. In addition to supporting rapid response initiatives that are currently being mobilized, funding will also be available for projects that will help rebuild the community in the months ahead. The COVID-19 response funding is being released early…

The Conway Corp board of directors has approved a 20-year purchase power agreement with Lightsource BP for the development of a 132MWdc solar energy project in White County, Ark. Lightsource BP will finance, build, own and operate the facility and will deliver the solar energy it generates to Conway Corp under the fixed-rate power purchase agreement. The Happy Solar project is located on 700 acres near Happy, Arkansas, approximately 55 miles northeast of Little Rock. It will supply clean energy to Conway Corp’s customers in the city of Conway and will generate enough electricity to power more than 21,400 homes.…

The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has revealed guidance for the geophysical surveying for unexploded ordnance (UXO) and boulders, supporting subsea cable installation by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of surveys. The new guidance, dedicated to the offshore wind industry, aims to optimize surveys by equipping offshore wind developers and surveyors with information to facilitate the creation and utilization of data according to best practice, a consistent structure and improved survey result documentation. UXO and boulders present risks to subsea cables, as well as the operations and equipment required for their installation, maintenance, and decommissioning. Data generated by geophysical surveys…