The grid connection for Hollandse Kust (west) Alpha offshore substation is officially ready for commissioning after receiving grid readiness certificate three months ahead of schedule.This means that wind farm operator Ecowende can connect the wind turbines…
Danish vessel owner Esvagt has secured a service contract with Vestas for Ecowende’s Hollandse Kust (west) offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, and started the process of designing and building the new service operation vessel (SOV).The newbuild will be the sixth purpose-built SOV for Vestas…
The European Union has built 17 GW of new wind energy in 2023, with 3 GW of new capacity coming from offshore wind farms.The WindEurope data shows that Germany built the most new wind capacity followed by the Netherlands and Sweden. The Netherlands built the most new offshore wind…
The Dutch wind farm developer Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has placed an order for 52 offshore wind turbines from Vestas, each rated at 15MW, for its Hollandse Kust (west) site VI.Once installed, Vestas will service the…
Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell and Eneco, has awarded a contract to Van Oord for the construction of the 760 MW offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (west) lot VI.As Ecowende's contractor, Van Oord will be responsible for transporting and installing the foundations…
Dutch company SolarDuck has secured $16.4 million from existing and new investors for the development and deployment of its offshore solar technology.The funding has been provided by Katapult Ocean, Green Tower, Energy Transition Fund Rotterdam and Invest-NL…
Dutch King Willem-Alexander has officially inaugurated the offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Zuid in the Dutch sector of the North Sea.To mark the occasion the king celebrated the completion of Vattenfall’s largest offshore wind farm to date together with executives of Vattenfall…
Van Oord completed the installation of the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm, located 18.5 km off the west coast of the Netherlands near Egmond aan Zee.CrossWind, a joint-venture between Shell and Eneco, contracted Van Oord in 2020. As a Balance of Plant contractor…
Dutch transmission system operator TenneT, in collaboration with contractor Equans/Smulders, has installed several artificial reefs near the offshore wind power transformer platform Hollandse Kust (west Alpha), which are meant to stimulate marine life…
Offshore wind farm developer CrossWind said Friday it had installed the 69th and final wind turbine at the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm in the Dutch section of the North Sea.The final turbine's three 97-meter-long blades were lifted into position on Thursday evening…
The independent energy expert and assurance provider DNV has partnered up with Oceans of Energy, a Dutch company specializing in offshore solar technology, services, operations, and ecological and energy systems research, to accelerate the deployment and scaling of offshore solar technologies…
Dutch offshore installation services firm Van Oord said Friday it had completed installing and burying inter-array cables at CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm, bringing it a step closer to being fully operational by the end of this year…
The Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind substation has been officially taken over by the Dutch grid operator TenneT following the installation and hook-up offshore the Netherlands. In March 2020, TenneT awarded the joint venture EQUANS-Smulders the contract for the engineering…
The first electricity has been produced from the large Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm, companies running the project said on Monday.In a statement, the CrossWind consortium led by Shell and Mitsubishi subsidiary Eneco said it had delivered…
Dutch offshore wind farm developer CrossWind has awarded Italy-based Rosetti Marino a new engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract for an offshore green hydrogen production and storage pilot plant - called the 'Baseload Power Hub…