In a major developement, international consulting group COWI announced it plan to increase its presence in the USA significantly with the consultancy contract with Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts
Van Oord and Scottish outfit Ace Aquatec are working together to make an acoustic device to protect marine fauna during offshore construction available to all contractors and interested parties around the world.
France has outlined the bidding terms for the 500MW Dunkirk Round 3 offshore wind farm off the country's northern coast, with the winner to be named by mid-2019.
Japanese manufacturer Hitachi will use the port of Changhua as an operations and maintenance base for the over 109MW Changhua offshore wind farm under development by Taiwan Power Company.
Dutch outfit Marine Coordination Services has secured a contract for work during the commissioning phase of the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
UK high voltage engineering specialist EDS HV Group has completed on-line tap changer maintenance work on 66kV/33kV generator transformers at EDF Renewable’s 62MW Teesside offshore wind farm
Northeast England is looking to take advantage of export opportunities presented by the development of offshore wind in emerging markets around the globe.