Danish steel manufacturer Welcon has been contracted by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) to supply 78 towers for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore wind farm. The order is part of a larger supply order of 140 towers. HKZ, a Vattenfall project, will be located approximately 20 kilometers off the west coast of the Netherlands…
Dutch subsea cable solutions provider Vos Prodect Innovations (VPI) has been awarded a contract by Dutch cable manufacturer Twentsche Kabel Fabriek (TKF) to deliver cable hang-off systems for the 342 MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The Kaskasi wind farm is being buitl by RWE some 35 km off the island…
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) and Gemini Consortium have reached an agreement for the extension of the operations and maintenance service agreement for the 600 MW Gemini offshore wind farm by another 5 years. SGRE has been responsible for the full maintenance of the 150 SG 4.0-130, 4 MW wind turbines in the wind farm,…
CrossWind, a joint venture of Eneco and Shell, and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) have executed the contract for the delivery of 69 SG 11.0-200 DD offshore wind turbines and a 15-year service and maintenance agreement for the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm. Final conditions are planned to be met in the…
Global Wind Service (GWS) has been contracted by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy for the pre-assembly, transport and installation of the 89 wind turbines for the 383 MW Fryslân Wind Farm, which is currently being built in the Frisian part of the IJsselmeer. Siemens Gamesa is one of the partners, together with Van Oord Offshore Wind,…
Vattenfall has taken its final investment decision for the 1,500 MW Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm. In 2023, the project, located approximately 22 km off the coast of the Zuid-Holland province, will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world. Offshore constructions will start in 2021. The wind farm is to be completed in 2023.…
Today, a consortium of EDF Renewables, Enbridge and wpd announced the start of the activities for their Fécamp offshore wind project after having reached financial close over the weekend. Boskalis is one of the companies that will play a role in the construction of the 500 MW project, located between 13 and 22 km off…
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) will supply its latest 11 MW offshore wind turbine for Vattenfall’s Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) wind farm. The news was announced at the WindEurope Offshore event in Copenhagen. SGRE already had a turbine supply agreement in place with Vattenfall for HKZ 4 & 4. This agreement has now been extended…
Windpark Fryslân B.V. has reached financial close for its 382.7 MW wind farm. Ten banks, ABN Amro, BNG, BNP Paribas, DZ Bank, Helaba, ING, KBC, KfW IPEX, NWB and Rabobank and the province of Fryslân are jointly financing the nearshore wind farm. The contracts were signed yesterday. The total construction cost are 850 million Euro. The ten…
At the Afsluitdijk dike in the north of Holland, activities are being performed to prepare for the installation of the power cables that connect the future 382.7 MW nearshore wind farm Fryslân with the 110 kV-high voltage station in Bolsward. Two power cables of each around 25 km will have to be installed. The preparation activities started…
