- Category: Projects and Contracts
New Zealand-based electricity generator and retailer Mercury has signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Vestas for the 119MW Turitea Wind Farm. The Turitea Wind Farm is situated at Turitea, near Palmerston North.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Vestas has received a milestone order from Hirtshals Havnefond for a 17 MW project in Denmark that will be the country’s first utility-scale subsidy free wind park. Located directly on the waterfront in the Port of Hirtshals in the northwestern part of Denmark, Vestas has developed a solution customised to the site’s medium to high wind conditions that includes four V136-4.2 MW turbines with 82-meter towers.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Tekmar Energy has announced that Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) have selected the TekLink Cable Protection System (CPS) Generation 8 for the Innogy Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
The first wind turbines of the 170MW Sarco Wind Farm, owned by Aela Energía, started operations in the Municipality of Freirina, Atacama Region, Chile. The energy generated by this wind farm will be transported to the Maitencillo substation, where it will be feeded into the National Electrical System (SEN).
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Vattenfall has chosen the Port of IJmuiden as its home base for operational and maintenance activities related to the Hollandse Kust 1&2 wind farm. Once the wind farm is completed and commissioned (by 2023), all maintenance and management tasks required to keep the wind farm operational will be performed from this maintenance hub.
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Morocco has launched a call for tenders for the Koudia Al Baida wind farm repowering project. The Moroccan authorities are looking for a manufacturer which takes care of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the project. By repowering the project the objective is to increase the capacity from 50MW to 120MW.
- LEEDCo secures construction permit for Icebreaker project
- Arcadis and Pondera collaborate on Dutch offshore grid permits and EIA
- Nexans to supply turbine cables & accessories for WindFloat Atlantic project
- Fortum’s windenergy project in Finland approved for renewables scheme
- Jan De Nul signs contract with Tennet for HV cable repairs in German waters
- Peikko delivers rock foundations to three wind parks in Central Norway
- Windpark Fryslân awards contract to Van Oord and Siemens Gamesa
- Engie wind farm to feature first 150 metres Vestas rotors in Mexico
- New Leitwind wind turbine installed in Germany
- Start of construction for the Peyton Creek wind farm in Texas
- Synthetic rope slings used for lifting offshore wind turbines
- EDPR wins contracts to build wind farms with a total of 492MW in Colombia
- Financing secured for floating wind project in North West Europe
- JDR Cables wins contract for Danish offshore wind farm
- SeaPlanner to support marine coordination for Taiwan’s Formosa I offshore wind farm
- Anbaric files to connect 1200MW of offshore wind to Massachusetts
- Prysmian to develop cable connections for French floating offshore wind farm
- Boralex to exit Dunkirk offshore wind consortium
- Epuron sells 1GW Australian wind farm
- Ørsted participates in tender for Holland Coast South 3&4 offshore wind farm
- E.ON decommissions Britain’s first offshore wind farm
- Senvion installs the tallest wind turbines in France
- DEME Offshore announces Moray East wind farm Tier One suppliers
- DOE awards US$ 6 million in wind energy research projects
- Ventient Energy buys stakes 1GW European wind energy portfolio
- Siemens Financial Services invests in Indian windenergy farm
- Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners invests in wind farm in Texas
- Offshore substation and export cables included in Danish offshore wind tender
- Fugro awarded contract for UXO services for Dutch offshore wind farm
- Consortium Witwind tenders for Dutch offshore wind farms