Offshore WIND Magazine 3 - 2018

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Magazine for THE OFFSHORE WIND INDUSTRY

OUTLOOK

BY SENVION

BLOCKCHAIN IN ENERGY

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Pioneering a new age of offshore power.

Senvion has been pioneering offshore technology for years. We erected our first 5-megawatt deep offshore turbines in 2009. Since then, we have increased output to as much as 6.3 megawatts and installed over 170 offshore turbines worldwide.

Drawing on our proven technology and wealth of experience, we are developing the next generation of offshore turbines, delivering reliable performance, higher output and a lower levelized cost of energy (LCoE). Because at Senvion, we are committed to making offshore power perform to the maximum.

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CONTENTS

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CONTENTS

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EDITOR’S NOTE

5 | G UEST COLUMN STEVE SAWYER Secretary General Global Wind Energy Council

6 | M AIN INTERVIEW JÖRG PHILP Senvion

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SUBMERGING THE WAY FORWARD

Design of a unique vessel

16 | C AREER TRENDS in offshore wind

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RETURN OF THE POLISH RENEWABLE OFFSHORE INDUSTRY

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DNV GL

Zero-subsidy bids

28 | G ERMAN OFFSHORE WIND MARKET

An update 32 |

GERMAN WIND FARM UPDATE

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BLOCKCHAIN IN ENERGY

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TECHTALK

Innovation meets fast-moving market

50 | O FFSHORE WIND CONFERENCE

A look at the programme

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BREEZES

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WIND FARM UPDATES

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EVENTS

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

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COLOPHON & ADVERTISERS’ INDEX

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EDITOR’S NOTE

A summer for climate change As we were finalizing this edition of Offshore WIND, the summer holidays in the Netherlands were coming to an end. Europe experienced an extraordinarily hot summer, causing forest fires due to extreme drought and heat. Climate change becomes more real, even to the public, and reinforces the need to remain steadfast on reaching (renewable) energy targets.

Technological innovation and human are themes this issue. It should also come as no surprise that collaboration is currently key at the office.

Heading into the final weeks of the event, means working more closely together to get the very best prepared for 9th annual Offshore Wind Conference as part of Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference.

“The extraordinary price reductions in the European offshore wind market over the past few years has meant that offshore has now attracted a great deal of attention outside Europe: in Asia, the Americas and even Australia”, said our Guest Column writer Steve Sawyer. He will discussing how offshore wind is becoming more global.

We are extremely pleased to have sat down exclusively with jorg of Senvion who walks us through his outlook on offshore wind and the technological developments that are taking place for the Horizon 2020 programme and the 10+MW turbine.

We will be at WindEnergy Hamburg at the end of September. We hope to see you there.

Enjoy reading this edition!

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GUESTCOLUMN

STEVE SAWYER SECRETARY GENERAL GLOBAL WIND ENERGY COUNCIL

Offshore going global The extraordinary price reductions in the European offshore wind market over the past few years has meant that offshore has now attracted a great deal of attention outside Europe: in Asia, the Americas and even Australia.

The main market outside of Europe for the past few years has been China, where the industry now seems to be hitting its stride, installing 1100MW in 2017 for a cumulative total of nearly 2.9 GW – about 15 per cent of the global market; and it seems to be well on its way to hitting its latest 2020 target of five MW well ahead of time. For the longer term, there are about 60 GW of projects identified.

Next on the list is Taiwan, with an ambitious programme set out by the government to achieve a target of 5.5 GW by 2025, 3.5 GW under a very generous feed-in tariff, and then the procurement will switch to competitive bidding for the remaining 2 GW. Taiwan is set to become a key player in the region as the industry evolves.

Japan has been flirting with offshore for about 15 years, but post-Fukushima, the number of demonstration projects has increased, both floating and bottom-mounted. Japan’s first major commercial development is likely to be in the Akita region in the northwest of the main island of Honshu in the Sea of Japan. Japan currently has 65MW installed offshore, 51 bottom-mounted and 14MW floating.

South Korea put on a big push for offshore starting about 10 years ago, but so far there is only 28MW installed, although there is another 60MW under construction. The new governments aggressive renewable energy policy calls for about 12-13GW of offshore to be installed by 2030.

After Deepwater Wind’s 30MW Block Island project was installed off of Rhode Island in late 2016, great expectations have arisen for the US market.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island have set the pace, awarding 1.2GW of projects on the same day in late May of this year, and the offshore world was surprised when the PPA for Vineyard Wind was recently announced at $65/MWh (albeit with with a two per cent annual escalator clause)! Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware between them are now committed to 5.5GW, and federal waters already leased could support about 15GW in total.

On the back of the GWEC-led FOWIND project, India has now launched a programme aimed at receiving requests for proposals for up to 1,000GW of offshore wind off the coast of Gujarat as early as the end of 2017. Vietnam already has 99MW of (very) nearshore projects in the Mekong Delta. A two GW project off the coast of Victoria in SE Australia recently won new financial backing, and there is now talk of development off the coast of Brazil!

The challenge in these new markets will be to get over the initial hump, where prices will inevitably be high as supply chains, ports, grids, vessels and infrastructure are developed to accommodate efficient offshore deployment.

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INTERVIEW

Senvion THE POTENTIAL FOR OFFSHORE WIND SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

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Jörg Philp Vice President Offshore, Senvion

“THE POTENTIAL FOR OFFSHORE WIND SPEAKS FOR ITSELF” SAYS, JÖRG PHILP, VICE PRESIDENT OFFSHORE AT SENVION. AS ONE OF THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS OF ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES OFFSHORE WIND IS KEEN TO FIND OUT WHERE THE COMPANY FEELS THE OFFSHORE WIND INDUSTRY IS HEADING (10+MW?) AND HOW THE HAMBURG-BASED MANUFACTURER FARES IN AN INCREASINGLY GLOBAL INDUSTRY

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Before taking a leap into the future of turbines, a little step back first. In 2016, Senvion announced the companywide efficiency programme called Move Forward to the growth strategy for 2019. Of this Jörg says the first phase was consolidation and reorganisation. “This is something the whole industry experienced due to a drastic change of the market environment. First we streamlined our international manufacturing footprint. Moving facilities to where the markets are or by pooling core competences.

Indeed this is not a painless process.. Thus reducing the costs in foreign markets. Therefore, we consolidated, streamlined, and reduced our cost structure overhead costs and OPEX costs. This was successful. In 2017 we already reduced EUR 52mn from our fixed costs basis.”

Another part of the Move Forward plan was to create a winning team. “Our company has grown over the past years and it grew fast. For us it is imperative to ensure that we pull together in finding innovative solutions for complex market challenges. Not one person is to blame when something is not working, just as not one single person one is a hero for achieving something. It is all a team effort, we do it together.”

daily work. Curious to how emerging markets get into contact with Senvion, Jörg elaborates that a great many customers know of Senvion as an offshore pioneer , no matter which level in the supply chain. “They are fully aware of us and approach us. Which is not to say that we don’t have to work on acquisition .”

Renewed opportunities With the Paris Climate Agreement and many countries working to meet their renewable energy targets, does this offer Senvion more opportunities? “In short, yes, we do see many countries moving away from nuclear and coal. Which is key as it opens the door for renewables at all. Yet, we need to figure out what the predictability is of the regional commitments . This is imperative for us as OEM, but also for investors and banks. We need to know if it is safe to invest our resources and to build up a local facilities. Many markets are showing potential, USA looks very positive as do Asia and India, but the mature European market is also showing potential. Germany is

Finally we also changed our product strategy. The times of selecting a turbine from our catalogue and sell at our general terms is history. With the conscious of our turbine engineering roots we are capable to technical adaptions whatever is within the IEC approved design envelope in order to improve reliability and efficiency of our turbines.

Integrating hubs As Vice President Offshore Jörg seeks to determine the guidelines for Senvion’s offshore strategy and the developments over the global market. “What is Senvion’s response to low wind areas? What will be the next generation turbine?” comments Jörg. Also, as new markets are emerging Jörg needs to evaluate which nonmature market will make the jump into the offshore league e.g. Turkey – India – Taiwan? What is the technology response should be for those specific areas. “Nowadays offshore is much more global, so I want to find out how we can benefit of our international hubs expertise. We have to create different offshore market awareness and have to translate lessons learned from our vast track record in Europe into a successful local business.

This also due to the fact that it is hard to find local offshore professionals.”

Jörg enjoys spending his time discussing with customers.

Not only high-level, he corrects, just finding out what drives them, what their needs are to reach a bankable business case and establishing a micro-level view of the market. “Then I go back to Germany, to our head office, and discuss with our experts how we can translate all this information into business for Senvion.” Time has been called on standard offers, Jörg stresses, so discovering what drives their customers plays a major role in his

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considering a third offshore auction, the Belgian project pipeline increased by an 1.4GW, the next CFD round in the UK in 2019 is promising and Poland may be the new comer of the next years. The growing offshore market volume will make a significant contribution to fulfil the climate targets.”

Next generation turbine So then on to that next generation turbine, which may assist in meeting renewable targets. Senvion applied for EU Research and Innovation programme “Horizon 2020” for a Next Generation 10 MW+ turbine.

According to Jörg the ultimate aim is to bring down the LCOE. “How do we reach that? Well, various tools can assist us in this. The industry is under pressure with auction prices coming down dramatically, e.g. we saw zero-subsidy bids in Germany.” Senvion has been working on several projects. “We commenced the design process by intensive discussion with our customers, two-blades or three-blades, geared or

not geared and such, and with all this input we have been working on fine-tuning the final design of the 10+MW turbine with which we applied for the Horizon 2020 programme. There are nine work packages from design, marine operation concepts, optimized Services digitalisation to financing factors. There is weekly work flow with our partners on this.

Together with 16 experts, the afore mentioned partners of the Horizon 2020 programme, from the entire life cycle of a turbine, or as Jörg says whatever belongs to the turbine. “We want to bring down the costs and to be able to do this we need a holistic view of the turbine within the wind farm. In addition, the design needs to be bankable. In our team, we have partners from research institutes, but also from insurance companies and banks. Bringing down LCOE also means less contingency. When you bring a new turbine to market, you need to consider more than just the turbine itself.

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Can we install the new monopiles and turbines with the existing vessel available in the market ? We are the developer of the turbine, so we also need to find out how we can optimise the entire scope of the wind farm. So it really is a joint industry effort.”

Game changer?

“Will it significantly change the future? Well, we have reached already high level of a mature industry. Projects will be brought in to force much faster and in time and budget. There is still room for improvement in installation methods and new service concepts as well as artificial island solutions for conversion of energy as well as for building service hubs. In terms of a game changer I would think about the huge potential of the new markets.”

The order book for Senvion is pretty well stocked with the company installing their 6.3M152 turbine at Borkum West Phase 2 Offshore Wind Farm (owned by Trianel, EWE, Zurich municipal utility and Fontavis) in Germany next year “Not forgetting scaling up floating wind in Asia and also working on the 10+MW turbine,” adds Jörg.

Global industry opportunities and challenges Emerging markets are proving fruitful, tough mainly onshore, there are also offshore opportunities. The company is looking at India, Turkey where a tender just came out. Ireland, the Middle East as well as the Baltic Sea. USA will be taking a little bit longer.

“I am certain offshore wind has a promising future. A fast moving industry from a niche technology to a mainstream business with high capacity factor and wide acceptance.

The mathematics are the best example, consider the

huge amount of kilometres of coastline on our planet, which I believe is around the same distance to the moon three times, and also consider that 80% the world population lives in an area around 50 km to the coast - this is where energy is needed - finally you have to realize that land occupies only around 30 per cent of the earth. So, with this amount of water, the future looks great for offshore wind.

Jörg comments that the challenges are simple, “Finding the right people in emerging markets is difficult. Who are the local experts for installation and maintenance?

In Europe, everything is well regulated, but you never know how things will evolve in emerging markets – so the challenge is to consider what effect regulation may have in the future. Logistics is another part of the equation sharing best practices with emerging markets. To find the right projects and deciding which markets you want to work on. That is the challenge.”

Jörg concludes: “In the short term, there are ongoing innovations, not just regarding WTG, but also across the industry. Next to that, we have to find a way of working in a more collaborative manner. The offshore wind farms are close together; why not find a way of working together?

Each wind farm has its own set up, these is much that can be gained from taking a joint approach. In addition, we will see the new markets establishing themselves.

Long term, I need my crystal ball. I believe offshore wind will help reach the climate targets. I also think offshore will be more accepted in the future and part of that is down to it being an industry where work is created. With 22GW installed capacity offshore worldwide and the potential for 100GW. The potential for wind speaks for itself. At least, that is what we see and read from our market intelligence.“

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Submerging the way forward

Unique giant to enter offshore wind waters

Photo contributions by Offshore Heavy Transport

Announced exclusively on OffshoreWIND.biz: Norway’s OHT signed a contract with China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) in Jiangsu, China, for the construction of a 48,000 dwt semi-submersible offshore wind farm foundation installation vessel, called Alfa Lift, with options to extend the program with up to three vessels. Offshore WIND spoke to Torgeir E. Ramstad CEO at Oslo-based Offshore Heavy Transport (or OHT) to discuss their ambitious plans.

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“We currently have five vessels in operation. Hawk, Osprey, Albatross, Falcon and Eagle. All converted from oil tankers. Most of these conversions took place years ago and they were purpose-built for this kind of trade. We aim to have the vessels working back to back. As such we handle 30 projects per year. So, that means doing everything inhouse regarding engineering, operations

planning and maintaining our technical crew. Further to that we own the vessels and have no debt”, says Ramstad.

The new additions to the existing fleet will enable the company to take on full transport & installation scope for foundations for offshore wind farms.

As to why the company decided to venture into offshore wind, Ramstad

says: “A few years ago we saw how offshore wind could provide our company with new transportation opportunities.

Turbines transfers are perhaps too light a load for our vessels, but foundations are heavier and require our expertise. We have already completed two projects in offshore wind already and also do some work within oil and gas. It is still a strong segment to lean on.

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the final design. The vessel will be the world’s first to be able to submerge offshore and is therefore unique.”

Alfa Lift will have several innovative solutions to ensure efficiency when installing foundations for offshore wind farms, Ramstad says and the vessel will combine both vast cargo carrying capacity with a 3,000 t crane.

Vessel details

By developing our new installation vessel we can now combine both transport and installation into one bundled service. This then also replicates the way customers typically buy these kinds of contracts. And we have one overriding goal with this initiative; to bring down the cost of building offshore windfarms. Our existing fleet already represents the most efficient way of transporting offshore windfarm foundations over long distances. Combining this with the patent pending ULSTEIN Alfa Lift installation vessel design, we expect to set a new benchmark in cost per foundation installed. We look very

"Alfa Lift will have several innovative solutions to ensure efficiency"

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much forward to working closely with the industry to achieve our ambitious targets.”

Working with Ulstein Ramstad: “We have had a superb cooperation with Ulstein and met with them to discuss our high-level idea to handle offshore wind installation. They had similar thoughts and quickly came up with something that was close to the design we are working on today.

We wanted to scale up their idea, to make the vessel able to handle more and heavier foundations. After doing model testing in Hamburg we outlined

The vessel has a total length of 216.3m and a breadth of 56m. Total usable deck area exceeds 10,000m2. Up to 10 x 1,500 t ultra-large jacket foundations or 11 x 2,000 t XXL monopiles together with transition pieces and mission equipment can be loaded on to the decks, transported to the wind farm, and installed – all with the same vessel.

Liebherr will deliver the crane which has been designed to be particularly robust with respect to motions and dynamics, enabling the crane to lift loads up to its maximum capacity in challenging offshore conditions. The vessel’s main deck is fully mechanised with skidding tracks, which are used to move foundations during loadout and installation. A trolley picks up each foundation and brings it to within reach of the crane. No crew is present on the main deck during these operations.

The integrated motion compensated pile gripper allows installation of monopiles in DP mode, making mooring operations unnecessary. Furthermore,

Alfa Lift will come equipped with battery hybrid propulsion, it has an exhaust gas scrubber and is Tier III compliant.

To enhance sea state limitations and reduce weather downtime the vessel has the capability to submerge offshore during the installation operation.

Moving in-between markets As Ramstad mentioned earlier the vessel may also serve other markets, such as oil and gas, within heavy transportation, installation and decommissioning. For instance, the beam has been set to enable the vessel to carry topside structures weighing more than 30,000t and still fit into the slot of the world’s largest installation vessel, Pioneering Spirit. As it can submerge the main deck below the sea surface, the vessel is particularly well suited to perform lifts of suction bucket jackets, mono buckets and subsea structures where lifting through the

splash zone is critical. The main crane can perform subsea lifts of up to 1,000t to 300 metres water depth.

“Designing and building a unique vessel takes a long time and you build these kinds of vessels on speculation”, comments Ramstad. But this is how it works in the market. Time is taken to work on the contracts and on building the vessel. We have already seen firm and keen interest in the vessel, from both offshore wind and oil and gas. We are also recruiting some new heavy weight experts who are experienced in the technical disciplines relevant to offshore wind.”

Designing and building a unique vessel takes a long time

The first vessel will be ready for project deployment from early 2021. The vessel has been developed by OHT in close cooperation with Ulstein Design & Solutions BV, Liebherr and DNV GL and will operate under the Norwegian International Ship Register flag.

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Career trends The offshore wind industry is developing rapidly. Last year, the use of wind energy grew with 19% in the EU. It is expected that by 2030, wind energy will be the most important source of energy. Not only the market is growing; when it comes to technical developments, changes are also rapidly taking place. The industry does have a big challenge: there is a considerable shortage of professionals.

Wind energy keeps playing a larger role in Europe. The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects that in 2030, 30 per cent of the energy in Europe comes from wind. This makes it the most important source of energy. The EU wants to adhere to the Paris Agreement on climate change and is striving for a sustainable way of generating energy.

In order to reach this goal, further transformations of the current energy system and cutting-edge technological developments are necessary. Also, investments need to be made in new and current wind parks. Part of the presentday wind parks will not be operational by 2030.

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As David Molenaar, Country Manager Siemens Wind Power at Siemens Gamesa commented last year before Offshore Wind Conference: “Our challenges lie mostly in recruiting the right persons that match the not always known and changing requirements.

Finding the right locations for on the job trainings and creating the right quality

mindset and safety culture. We need more speed to achieve a nationwide educational approach for offshore wind technicians, a specific service wind (on land and at sea) paragraph in the Working Hours Act.” For those who have not heard of the working hours act, it stipulates how many hours per day and per week an employee may work and when he* is entitled to a break or rest.

These regulations have been established in order to protect the worker’s health, safety and well-being, but also to enable him to combine work with his private life and family responsibilities. The regulations apply for employees aged eighteen and older.

“Furthermore, to solve the ‘who does provide the GWO training’ question (either the schools or the sector?). Who are required to enable students to have a valuable on-site training and education during internships”, continues Molenaar.

Regarding training, International recruitment company Atlas Professionals and The Wind Technicians have signed

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a five-year cooperation agreement for the exchange of technical personnel for the wind energy sector. The collaboration will see The Wind Technicians provide technicians, riggers, welders, site assistants, warehouse employees and document controllers to support Atlas Professionals with requirements and tenders for the European market, with emphasis on the Netherlands.

Hub of employment Earlier this year, Atlas Professionals opened a recruitment hub in Vlissingen, which the company expects will enable close developments in Zeeland’s wind industry. According to the recruitment company, the growing wind sector has a direct impact on the labor market, with about 4,000 people currently working in the Dutch wind industry and the number expected to grow to more than 12,000 by 2023. Founded a year ago by a consortium of local employment agencies, The Wind Technicians provides training for offshore wind turbine mechanics in a two-week

program in which GWO training and BTT (technical training) is conducted or in a program which offers job-to-job guidance and wind technician training courses in the evening.

The UK has once again extended the Offshore Wind Immigration Rules concession until April 2019. The concession, introduced in June 2017, and extended by a year in October 2017, allows the employment of nonEuropean Economic Area nationals who are joining vessels engaged in the construction and maintenance of offshore wind projects in UK territorial waters. This concession will be timelimited and leave to enter under the terms of the concession will no longer be granted to expire after 21 April 2019, the government said. During this period, firms involved in the construction or maintenance of wind farms within territorial waters should look to regularise the position of their workers, the government said. British and EEA (European Economic Area) nationals do not require leave to enter the UK.

Shortage of manpower This kind of development and growth requires more manpower. With the current shortage in personnel, alarm bells are already ringing. It is expected that the number of jobs in the sector will double within the next the years. In the Netherlands, 25,000 extra employees are necessary by 2030. At a European level, wind energy will provide for approximately 596,000 jobs. Not having enough manpower has a negative impact on the developments in the industry and may mean that the advancements that are out there to make the energy transition possible, will not be completely utilized.

Not only Europe, also USA Offshore wind could potentially have an employment impact, not only in Europe, but in the USA as well. Recently Rhode Island’s Governor Gina Raimondo announced her Vision for Rhode Island’s Clean Energy Future – a second-term plan to position this US East Coast state as the epicentre of North America’s nascent offshore wind economy.

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Once established, Rhode Island’s offshore wind industry will support at least 5,000 good jobs in welding, boat building, oceanography, marine biology and more, Governor Raimondo said.

The plan includes expanding the availability of port access suitable for heavy industrial and construction use at the Port of Providence, Quonset and at additional new locations. Under Raimondo, Rhode Island is already on track to acquire and develop up to 100 new acres of usable port space at Quonset and the Port of Providence with a focus on hosting the staging, component distribution, and other logistical support necessary to foster offshore wind development.

In her second term, Raimondo plans to conduct a large-scale economic feasibility analysis of adding new dockage space at sites up and down Narragansett Bay, a statement said.

Later this year, the state’s Department of Labor and Training will begin working with a new Real Jobs Training Partnership focused on implementing a wind energy technology career pathway in collaboration with secondary and post-secondary educational institutions, the Quonset Development Corporation,

and local companies vital to the offshore wind supply chain.

In her second term, Raimondo plans to attract USD 100 million in new R&D investment to Rhode Island over the next four years, working with institutions of higher education, existing offshore wind industry leaders, and the entrepreneurial community in the region and nationally to establish Rhode Island as the national hub for offshore wind R&D and tech transfer. According to the recently released 2018 Rhode Island Clean Energy Industry report, clean energy employment in the Ocean State has grown by a 72 percent since 2014 and has resulted in 6,650 new jobs across the state.

Over 1,000 additional jobs are expected to be created by Deepwater Wind’s Revolution Wind, the state’s first offshore wind project.

Commitment to the industry “The industry is eager to find professionals of every level” says Anne Visser, Business Unit Manager Navingo.

Navingo specializes in connecting employers and jobseekers in this sector.

“We notice that the need is growing

Over 1,000 additional jobs are expected to be created by Deepwater Wind’s Revolution Wind

to find personnel for jobs such as service and repair engineers, hydraulic engineers, superintendents and cable engineers.” A challenge, because the energy sector is not the only sector looking for technical professionals.

“There is a lot of competition from other sectors. If we want to continue the energy transition and make sure that the energy source objectives for offshore wind can be realised, we need to make sure these professionals are committed to this industry. Only then can we reach these goals together”.

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Return of the

Polish renewable offshore industry

General view of St3 Offshore in Szczecin – manufacturer of steel construction for offshore (jackets and TP`s)

2018 has marked the big recovery among developers of offshore wind farms in Poland.

In March, all major Polish companies from the energy sector announced or declared their goals and plans in the field of offshore wind energy. One such declaration came from Polish state-owned power producer Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) who aim to implement projects up to 2030 with a total capacity of 2,500MW, including 1,000MW by 2025.

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Areas with location decisions for OWF projects issued and paid (therefore valid)

Polenergia and Equinor, and the Baltica 3 project with a capacity of 1,045MW, owned by Polska Grupa Energetyczna.

Shortly after the declaration in March, PKN Orlen, Poland’s biggest oil and gas company, announced the return to the 1,200MW offshore project. Currently, Orlen is at the stage of selecting the winner of the tender for technical consultancy in this area. Daniel Obajtek, CEO of Orlen, revealed a few details related to the investment schedule in an interview. According to him, PKN Orlen plans to launch the construction phase in 2023, which means the launch of a broad research and measurement campaign in the near future. Next to that, the President of Orlen assured that the first contracts for services related to the implementation of this phase of the project will be signed around 2018-2019. Local Distribution System Operators such as Tauron, Energa and Enea also did not wait too long and declared willingness to implement offshore wind farm projects.

The offshore wind energy market in Poland currently offers nine, issued and paid, valid location permits in the Polish Exclusive Economic Zone in the Baltic Sea. Connection conditions have so far been issued by the Transmission System Operator PSE S.A. for projects with a total capacity of 2.25GW. On offer are the following sites: Polenergia Bałtyk II and Polenergia Bałtyk III with a total capacity of 1,200MW, partially owned by

Strong global position Another landmark event in May was conclusion of the final agreement for the sale of 50 per cent shares in the Polenergia Bałtyk II and Polenergia Bałtyk III offshore wind farm projects between aforementioned companies Polenergia and Equinor. With this, the Polish offshore market gained a strong player with a global position in the sector. In recent weeks, PGE announced

a call for 100 per cent of Polenergia's shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, on the grounds of, inter alia, willingness to take over the company's offshore assets.

A visible revival in the Polish offshore industry also raises questions about the development potential of this sector in Poland. According to the estimates of the Polish Wind Energy Society from April 2018, the National Power System may be supplied by capacity from offshore sources of 8GW by 2030, and in the next decade, the level of installed capacity may reach even 12-14GW. These estimates are reflected in the statements of the representatives of the Ministry of Energy. In May this year Director of the Department of Renewable Energy Sources Andrzej Ka´ mierski defined the target for 2030 for the sector in the range of 6-8 GW, and ultimately even 14 GW.

Polish supply chain The implementation of offshore wind farm projects in the Polish Exclusive Economic Zone in the Baltic Sea will take place with a large share of the Polish supply chain. Fulfilling the local content criterion at the minimum level 50 per cent is one of the key conditions for the dynamic and smooth development of this sector in Poland. For foreign entities, it meant an incentive to independently enter the Polish market or build partnerships with local enterprises.

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Implementation of offshore wind farm projects at an ambitious 12-14 GW level

Additional areas (+700 sqkm) required for offshore wind in Polish Maritime Areas August 2018

At present, consolidation trends and ownership transformations are clearly emerging as part of Polish entities from the shipbuilding sector with the Treasury share. One from the declared goals of these activities is to achieve the optimal level of production capacity with a view to the future development of the offshore wind sector in Poland.

Employment opportunities Effective utilization of the potential of Polish components and services suppliers for the offshore wind sector in Poland is one of the pillars of the Offshore Wind Energy National Development Program (OWENDP) created by Parliamentary Group for the Offshore Wind Energy, which will ultimately constitute a roadmap for the development of this sector in Poland and related industries. According to declarations made by the Chairman of the Group - Zbigniew Gryglas MP, the National Program should be ready by the end of this year. According to the assumptions adopted for the preparation of the program, the offshore wind energy sector in Poland is able to generate at least 20,000 new, full-fledged jobs.

Supporting an effective industry Another, extremely important issue included in the OWENDP will be a system of financial support for offshore wind farm developers. “We assess that offshore wind energy requires a

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dedicated support model in the sense that it takes into account the specificity of preparatory works that are longlasting, and investments in this sector, which are capital-intensive, but also the current state of project development”, said Gryglas.

In May this year, Ka´ mierski announced in a similar tone that the Ministry is working on preparing the rules for the operation of such a system. “In 2019 may be a support system, but it will not be auctions, because the business model is different. It will probably be individually notified contracts with investors,” Ka´ mierski voiced in an interview with the Polish Press Agency (PAP). This declaration may entail that the offshore wind energy sector will be excluded from the support system currently used in the renewable energy industry. Resulting in organizing the so-called reversed auctions, as the scale of offshore projects linked to their high efficiency significantly goes beyond the framework provided for in the support system applied to other technologies related to renewable sources.

Support may also come from the TSO. PSE S.A. carried out a questionnaire regarding the total capacity of projects planned for implementation this year among developers. PSE received declarations for a total capacity of over 12 GW, which in the long term also allows setting up a scenario for the implementation of the offshore grid by

Polish TSO, which would significantly contribute to reducing the level of project costs.

In May this year, President of PSE Eryk Kłossowski admitted that PSE will consider the implementation of the offshore grid under the condition of obtaining a declaration on the implementation of projects with a total capacity of at least 8 GW.

Spatial planning challenges Implementation of offshore wind farm projects at an ambitious 12-14 GW level in the final perspective will require a large spatial reserve, designated for this purpose in the document of Maritime Spatial Plan of the Polish Marine Areas.

At present, the Contractor of the Plan, in agreement with the Ministry of Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation, anticipates about 2,000 square kilometres of areas located in Polish Exclusive Economic Zone in the Baltic Sea. Polish Offshore Wind Energy Society submitted comments to the current version of the draft plan, according to which, to secure the current objectives of the offshore wind sector, there is a need to designate at least 700 square kilometres of additional areas for offshore wind farm projects development.

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bids work for everyone

The offshore wind industry has made huge strides in reducing the cost of wind energy over recent years. So much so we now see projects being won at auction by bids which do not request any subsidies from the relevant government.

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The first successful zero-subsidy bids were greeted with a sense of relief across the industry. They were evidence, after years of hard work, that offshore wind power could compete in a free, open market. Now offshore wind would be more widely accepted as it could be paid for purely by selling generated electricity. Onshore wind still hasn’t reached this milestone despite being much more mature. So, the offshore wind community should be suitably proud of its accomplishments.

Challenges still lie ahead But let me urge a note of caution. While zero-subsidy bids show the potential for offshore wind to live on the free market, the business model is not yet proven. These projects have not yet been realized, so nothing is certain.

The first zero-subsidy projects (in the Netherlands) will not be built until 2021 and the final investment decisions are due to be taken the end of this year. The big German zero-subsidy projects will follow three to four years later.

Until those investment decisions are approved, we can’t be sure if the investment community believes in zero-subsidy projects. Even after the decisions are made, there will be a lot to be done to ensure zero-subsidy bids are economically sustainable.

Zero-subsidy projects are effectively exposed to the full variability and merchant risk of the open market.

Currently, wholesale electricity is a buyer’s market with wholesale prices somewhere around € 25 per MWh. Compare that to the current cost of buying offshore wind power – which for example is around € 180 per MWh in Germany – and you immediately see the pressure on offshore wind.

If subsidy-free offshore wind is to be successful, both the industry and authorities need to act to reduce this difference. For its part, the industry needs to reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCoE) for offshore wind. Given today’s turbines are already extremely efficient and we are close to extracting the theoretical maximum energy from

wind flows, that leaves cutting costs even further.

Cutting LCoE The good news is that there are still savings to be made in both the capital (CAPEX) and operational expenditure (OPEX) of offshore windfarms. The better news is that these savings will come almost naturally through the market effects of maturation and competition.

This is something the industry sometimes overlooks, but when faced with a race to be successful, business and people find solutions.

As the sector matures, it can benefit from economies of scale. Moreover, the more an industry does something difficult – like install dozens of wind turbines in deep water kilometres from land – the more it

learns and the better it gets, which also brings cost savings.

This isn’t to downplay the challenges that need to be overcome to cut LCoE. But we should be confident we can deliver the necessary savings. For example, the digitalization of turbines and the use of big data will reduce OPEX by allowing us to identify errors and predict turbine lifetimes more accurately and more easily.

However, the larger savings are expected to come from reducing the CAPEX. Here we can will see simpler, more modular substation designs; smarter foundations that use less steel; and more advanced installation approaches reducing installation time, errors and the influence of adverse weather conditions.

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Of course, a third option for reducing LCoE is to increase energy yields – the effect of which is more than enough to offset any associated OPEX and / or CAPEX increases. One popular solution, chosen by nearly all zero-subsidy projects, is to employ larger, higheroutput turbines.

The logic appears straightforward. With larger turbines, fewer are needed to deliver the same overall project output.

Balancing the increased cost per MW of larger turbines with these installation savings gives us a turbine size “sweet spot”. Currently, turbines rated around 7-8MW are the most popular choice for offshore wind farms as they are the largest available and deliver the best value for money. However, with the best available project sites increasingly found further offshore and in deeper waters, higher installation costs will move that sweet spot up above 10-12MW, beyond what is possible with today’s technology.

Is bigger really better?

As I said, the logic seems straightforward. But again, let me be the voice of caution. There is some suggestion we are overestimating the energy output of future large turbines. If that is true, then perhaps the hoped-for mega turbines are not the best option.

Would projects be better off using smaller turbines but taller towers to take advantage of the stronger winds at higher altitudes? Or could suppliers reduce the price of smaller turbines to move the sweet spot back towards the 8 to nine MW range?

These are questions we as an industry still need to resolve. Whatever the final answers, we do need to proceed carefully in terms of turbine size.

Each new, larger turbine represents a huge development investment for turbine manufacturers and their supply networks. For the offshore wind industry to achieve the cost reductions it is looking for, turbine suppliers need to recoup those costs through volume of sales. If we push the growth of turbine sizes too fast, suppliers will be unable to access the necessary economies of scale. Either of the two approaches

mentioned above (smaller turbines on higher towers, reducing the price of smaller turbines) would mean more turbines per model being sold, allowing economies of scale to come into play.

The role of government While the industry is working to cut the cost of offshore wind, the authorities need to look at the wholesale market. A five per cent wholesale price increase would have a greater effect on the affordability of offshore wind power than a 20 per cent CAPEX reduction.

Currently there is global oversupply of fossil fuels, pushing down wholesale electricity prices. However, countries around the world are already seeing the effects of climate change caused by carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels. These effects are not just social, they are also economic such as the increased clean-up costs from more frequent natural disasters.

Those economic costs are not covered in wholesale electricity prices, which makes them artificially low. Yet governments and consumers ultimately have to pay the bill. So, there is an economic imperative to limit emissions by increasing the proportion of electricity from renewables.

Raising wholesale prices, for instance by

shutting down fossil fuels power plants or introducing green certificates, makes the transition to renewables more affordable.

And it doesn’t need to raise electricity bills for consumers. Wholesale costs represent a small portion of the retail price and increases here could be offset by reducing the taxes and charges currently on the bill to meet grid and regulation efforts.

There is another critical economic argument for raising the wholesale price of electricity to make new offshore wind and other renewables projects more affordable. Renewable energy is not subject to fluctuations in fuel prices: once the project is built, its operating costs are very predictable. This makes long-term economic planning much easier with significantly less risk of wild power price variations.

In fact, many large corporate consumers of electricity – such as Google, Ikea and Amazon – want to power all new operating sites entirely with renewable energy specifically to take advantage of that long-term stability. As more multinationals reach this conclusion, green energy will become an enabler of economic growth.

Peter Frohböse Principal Engineer at DNV GL

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The standstill needs to end

In July, German offshore wind industry representatives sent out a joint press release, urging the newly formed government to push forward as they feel there is a standstill in the energy policy. They urged for a more ambitious expansion of offshore wind to meet the required targets for 2030.

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As a result, for the very first time, zero bids were awarded

million numbers which resulted in an extremely competitive situation of the project developers.

When the new renewable energy policy was discussed in parliament two and a half years ago, only two rounds of tenders for offshore wind with a total capacity of 3.1 GW were agreed upon in the transitionary phase, one in 2017 and one in 2018. Awarded projects have to be commissioned during 2021 and 2025. Around 1,5GW was awarded last year in April, and the second round of tenders in spring 2018.

A paradigm shift

Andreas Wagner, CEO of the German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation (Stiftung OFFSHORE-WINDENERGIE) provides comments and an update on the current and future German offshore wind developments. The core objective of the Stiftung has been - from the beginning in 2005 - to ensure the integration of offshore wind energy in the future energy mix of Germany and Europe and to promote its expansion in the interest of environmental and climate protection. Wagner says: “The new coalition treaty has agreed to raise the 2030 targets for Renewable energy to a share of 65 percent of total electricity production (up from the previous target of 50 -55 percent), but unfortunately we haven’t seen any concrete efforts to increase the volume of Renewable Energies, yet. Taking this new renewables target seriously means to increase the 2030 target for offshore wind from 15 GW to at least 20 GW.

Transitionary phase tenders By end of June 2018, around 5.4 GW of offshore wind capacity were fully operational and connected to German grid.

The first two rounds of tenders that have been awarded covered pre-developed projects, some even have permits. The development cost were in double-digit

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As a result, for the very first time, zero bids were awarded (no more support beyond expected market prices).

This was a real paradigm shift and a landmark result for a technology that was only a few years ago regarded as too costly. A clear and massive trend towards cost reduction had been observed earlier in the Netherlands and Denmark. Trends that were reinforced by the two German rounds of tenders.”

Wagner: “Based on the impressive cost reduction results, we are urging the German government to become more ambitious. We are calling for an additional tender in 2019, and more volumes for offshore wind in general.”

An increase in targets is urgently needed “What we are urging the government to increase the targets for offshore wind by 2030, industry needs to reach at least 20GW. That is an increase of 5GW, compared to the current 15GW target which is regarded extremely low. Costs have come down so rapidly and the German Government cut the target in 2014, from 25 to 15GW. During 2016, we were hoping that with new legislation and the Renewable Energy Act and Wind at Sea Law higher targets would have been agreed. Unfortunately the government stuck to its old regime”, says Wagner.

The first rounds of tenders showed massive cost reduction, so the representatives feel there is much

stronger reasoning to call for higher targets. Wagner: “On the one hand the government would like to increase the share of renewables by 2030 to 65 per cent, currently close to 40 per cent. However, the downside is that grid extension onshore is not always following the pace. There are bottlenecks within the onshore grid, and room for optimising the existing transmission grids.”

Grid challenges “The main issue is that we want to raise the bar for renewables and raise the target for offshore wind. In the short term, we are calling the newly formed coalition to enter a special contribution for offshore wind. In addition, to be able to close the gap for 2020 targets and to have first steps in reaching the 2030 target. We need additional capacity and with that at least 1.5 GW until 2025, but onshore grid constraints could potentially prohibit further raising offshore target”, warns Wagner.

“We need to have at least an immediate 1.5 GW capacity increase by the mid2020s, and in the long run - by 2030 an additional 5GW should be integrated in the onshore grid. TSO’s presented to the regulator BNetzA a scenario framework for 2030. The regulator confirmed this scenario which becomes the basis of the grid development plan. Every three years the framework is confirmed by parliament. Scenario planning for 2030 already reflected the higher target which was suggested by the offshore wind industry, i.e. 20GW until 2030. At least from a grid planning side it could be feasible. The downside we’ve been struggling with since the Federal election last September is that it took very long (half a year) to form a new government. This is the situation we are living in”, continues Wagner.

“We are hoping to have more clarity on this situation after the summer break. The next UN conference in Poland, where the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 will be discussed and all member states will present their plans to meeting the climate target, will speed

up this development Germany is now in a delicate position as it fails to meet the 2020 target, but it could potentially meet the 2030 target, provided it quickly introduces the political framework conditions for the integration of more Renewable Energies in the system” “It is worrying as the lack of immediate action from the government means that many companies in the supply chain are suffering. This concerns the whole wind industry sector, both onshore as well as offshore. Many lay-offs have been announced in the manufacturing supply chain. As annual offshore capacity was reduced to only to 500MW in 2021 and in 2022 respectively, and to 700MW for the each year following until 2025, the economic outlook for many companies is worrying and critical”, added Wagner.

Compared to the Netherlands which will see annual offshore wind capacity of 700MW by 2023, and after 2023 adding even 1GW every year. Regarding the United Kingdom, you see they are in a

much better place. United Kingdom is still leading, with Germany on its tail.

We need to have at least an

Positive with caution Wagner: “The German wind energy industry is still the world leader in terms of the supply chain. We still have a strong industry supply chain but it is being put at risk by a lack of political action and insufficient targets. The German government needs to finally introduce new rounds of tenders by 2019, at the latest.”

immediate 1.5 GW capacity increase by the mid-2020s

Wagner remains positive in the short term, as regards present development concerning offshore wind until 2020.

Germany is well on track to meet the own target for 2020 which is a maximum capacity of 7.7 GW. “However”, concludes Wagner, “we see a massive dip in early 2020s reflected by layoffs in the supply chain. Hence we urgently need this additional capacity to fill the gap.”

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Germany update

Back in 2016 Offshore WIND reported on the status of Germany’s offshore wind industry.

In 2014 the number of operational offshore wind turbines had jumped from just 141 capable of producing 616 megawatts to 835 grid connected turbines capable of 3,552 megawatts in July 2016. Which then included another 54 installed turbines not yet connected to the grid able to produce 324 megawatts. Two years ago 142 foundations were waiting for tower and nacelle installation.

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These were massive numbers but when we used our crystal ball leading up to 2017 and 2018 we saw only modest growth. As Andres Wagner of the Germany Wind Energy Foundation stated in the previous article the 2020 target of 6.5 megawatt looks possible for Germany, but the planned 15GW target for 2030 needs to be improved.

wind farms under construction or partially feeding the grid. These were Dan Tysk, Global Tech 1 and Nordsee Ost partially feeding in the grid and Butendiek, Borkum West II, Borkum Riffgrund and Amrunbank West 1 which were under construction. In the Baltic, EnBW Baltic I was operational and connected while EnBW Baltic II was under construction.

By 31st December 2015, one year later, nine wind farms had been completed and commissioned in full operation.

Dan Tysk, Global Tech 1 and Nordsee Ost were by then fully operational, and they were joined by Amrunbank West 1, Baltic II, Borkum Riffgrund 1, Butendiek, Trianel Windpark Borkum. Four more had started construction, Gode Wind I, Gode Wind 2, Nordsee One and Sandbank.

2016 & 2017 By the end of 2014 there were eleven offshore wind farms in the German sector of the North Sea either under construction or in a state of partial feed in or completed. The two early wind farms alpha ventus and Bard 1 had been joined by Borkum Riffgat and Meerwind Sud/Ost and were fully operational. There were seven other

Plans for three wind farms had been completed and construction planned to start in 2016 for Wikinger in the Baltic, and Nordergründe and the 400MW Veja Mate in the North Sea. In 2017 these were connected to the grid. At Wikinger 29 jackets, each with four piles, and Adwen 5MW turbines, a further 41 are scheduled for delivery later. MPI Enterprise placed monopile foundations at Nordergründe for the 18 Senvion 6.15MW turbines. And finally at Veja Mate the largest monopiles that have ever been made for wind turbines, being placed by Seajacks Scylla, the largest WTIV ever built. The 67 Siemens SWT-6.0-154 turbines are now connected The total annual offshore wind capacity installation for 2017 was 1,247MW for Germany, making Germany the

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second largest country, just behind the United Kingdom, with 40 per cent of the total European capacity, according to WindEurope. This was realised dus to the commissioning of Veja Mate and Wikinger.

2018 and beyond As reported on OffshoreWIND.biz, Germany’s total offshore wind yield amounted to 9.04 terawatt hours (TWh) in the first half of 2018, of which TenneT transferred 8.17 TWh from the North Sea wind farms to the mainland and 50Hertz transmitted the remaining 0.87 TWh from the Baltic Sea. According to TenneT, electricity delivered from the offshore wind farms in the North Sea in the first six months of this year increased by 5.15% compared

to the first half of 2017 (7.77 TWh). With an addition 44.95 TWh of generated onshore wind energy, the total wind energy yield in Germany in the first half of 2018 was thus 53.99 TWh. In the German North Sea, TenneT currently has ten offshore grid connection systems with a total capacity of 5,332 MW for transmitting wind energy from sea to land. As such, TenneT has now achieved more than 82% of the federal government’s expansion target of achieving 6,500 MW of offshore wind capacities by 2020, the transmission system operator said.

prepared by TenneT or will be pending further commissioning according to the preliminary design of the land development plan of the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). This will increase the transmission capacity in the German North Sea to almost 11,000 MW. The current maximum infeed performance of offshore wind farms in the North Sea reached 4,431 MW on 31 March 2018. Compared to the end of 2017, the capacity expansion of the offshore wind farms in the North Sea remained unchanged at 4,716 MW on the reporting date of 30 June 2018.

By the end of 2023, TenneT will successively complete three additional grid connection systems, which will provide 8,032 MW of transmission capacity in the North Sea. By 2027, three more connections will be

WindEurope states that 2019 will see another record of offshore wind power connected to the grid, most of it concentrated in the United Kingdom.

Germany will add 2.3GW to their grid from 2018 to 2020.

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The pipeline Albatros Offshore Wind farm and Hohe See Enbridge Inc. has closed the sale of 49% of its 49.9% interest in the Hohe See and Albatros offshore wind farms to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). Enbridge has maintained a 51% ownership of its original interest, and will continue to provide management and administrative services to the renewable assets. The transaction amounted to circa CAD 1.75 billion (EUR 1.14 billion) and also included the sale of Enbridge’s

49% interest in select onshore wind farms in North America. Furthermore, CPPIB and Enbridge entered into an agreement whereby the two parties will form a 50-50 joint venture to pursue future European offshore wind projects. These projects may be in the early development, late development, construction or operational phase.

The 497MW Hohe See and the 112MW Albatros offshore wind farms will comprise a total of 87 Siemens SWT-7.0-154 turbines scheduled for commissioning at the beginning of 2020.Germany’s EnBW controls the remaining 51.1% interest in the projects.

Arkona Arkona is located about 35 kilometres northeast of Sassnitz on Rügen.

Currently under construction, the wind farm will feature 60 Siemens SWT-6.0154 wind turbines with a rated output of 385MW.

Borkum Riffgrund 2 As the magazine was almost going to press a new item on Borkum Riffgrund 2 came in, stating: “On 31 August 2018, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up installation vessel Bold Tern successfully installed the final turbine, completing the installation of MHI Vestas turbines at the Borkum Riffgrund 2 Offshore Wind Farm ahead of schedule. The 56 V1648.0MW turbines will have a total output of 450MW.”

Borkum Riffgrund West 1 & 2 The German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has awarded Ørsted the right to build an additional 551.75MW offshore wind capacity in the German North Sea. Ørsted won with the Borkum Riffgrund West 1 with a capacity of 420MW at a price of EUR 0 per MWh, and Gode Wind 4 with a capacity of 131.75MW at a price of EUR 98.30 per MWh, the highest bid accepted in the second round. In the first German offshore wind auction, which took place in April 2017, Ørsted won three projects with a total capacity of 590MW: the 240MW OWP West at EUR 0 per MWh, the 240MW Borkum Riffgrund West 2 at EUR 0 per MWh, and Gode Wind 3 at EUR 60 per MWh. Subject to the company taking Final Investment Decisions.

Merkur The Dutch Gould Services has reached an agreement to take over all activities of compatriot Total Wind Benelux, including a contract for the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm. The deal, which applies retroactively from 1 May, will see Gould Services continue Total Wind Benelux’s ongoing contract with GE Renewable Energy for the pre-assembly of 66 Haliade 150-6MW turbines at the German project.

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Public registry open for business Blockchain remains a hard to understand concept. Some say it will change the way we do business, others fear what sharing data will mean for future transactions.

Offshore WIND spoke to Tom Fürstner founder and CTO of Riddle&Code, who recently cooperated with Brazilian onshore energy provider EDP.

So, let us start with: What is Blockchain?

“In essence Blockchain is a distributed public registry”, simplifies Fürstner. “And it is remarkable as it has the biggest disruptive potential. People can write to this registry and read from it. It has a special interest for the energy sector to be able to keep track of transactions and to send receipts. The receipt I refer to in this case is a kind of currency. Most companies would prefer to keep their data private, but Blockchain forces an open data culture.”

Austrian innovation leader Riddle&Code can give anything in the world a unique identity. This identity is viable through digital means of either mobile phone or computer. Moreover, the identity is unique. Therefore, we take this unique identity and write it into Blockchain – in essence creating its existence. Everyone can read in Blockchain what it is and who produced it and what it in itself produces.

Very economical Recently Riddle&Code worked together with the Brazilian energy provider Energias de Portugal (EDP) to use Blockchain technology for the measurement and recording of energy consumption and distributed energy coming for EDP’s consumers. Fürstner explains: “In this specific case we are talking about energy meters which we

combined with our technology. Placing a non-removable cryptographic tag on domestic energy meters and measuring the data – which is secure and encrypted. The data is then transferred into Blockchain. The consumer can see the very same data on their smart phone or computer as well. The measurements used in this case is the co-consumption of the consumer and offers the energy provider calculations for charging and taxing. Allowing for direct settlement of payment. At the end of every month, the data is taken from the meter and the whole payment process it automatic.

And the great thing is: this is all done without placing so-called smart meters.

So it is very economical.”

How do they do this? They tag the meters. Many companies use a QR code or a bar code. The problem is that these kinds of codes are easily replicated.

Fürstner: “We don’t tag with use of QR, but we tag it with a mathematical question, a small microcomputer which has a unique identity. A specific kind of cryptographic. So for instance, we can ask the tag a mathematical question, the right answer proves its unique identity. Therefore, this mathematical function provides the protection. Any tampering with the tag breaks the chip thus destroying the Blockchain identity.

This is much more secure than a QR code and that is in essence the main difference.

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The non-removable cryptographic tag has its own identity, we then check that it works and around this identity, you build the settlement. Therefore, we put the tags on the meters and can now connect it to the mobile device of the consumer using the energy. The meter tracks the consumption and via NFC talks to the chip. The chips identity takes the mobile phone meter measurements and sends them back to EDP. A small program does the payment settlement automatically.”

Using for money exchange “In effect we are using the capability of Blockchain for money exchange. When you get a tag on your meter and combine it with your mobile phone, you can connect it with your wallet to which you transfer money and the payment is settled. This is super cheap and very efficient.

It is an elegant way of solving many problems. And as far as we know it is the only system of its kind at the moment”, continues Fürstner. Most energy providers currently only use Blockchain to trade energy certificates, which is very money centric. Riddle&Code technology is solution based, solving challenges and with the use of existing meters.

Fürstner: “The cryptography and all data are fully anonymized and also fully compliant with the European GDPR regulations, which in the case of EDP is not yet necessary (outside of EU). EDP already had a lot of experience with Blockchain and asked us how we could assist in how to use Blockchain for instant payment settlement for their consumers.

Community-based Could this idea be translated to other energy providers?

Fürstner: “If you look at for instance Italy, this country has been 100 per cent retrofitted with smart meters.

Firstly, smart metes are much more expensive than normal meters and it very complicated to use the smart meter. There are additional services necessary and more struggles with leasing. By using Blockchain, you have the cost of the tag, which is dependent on if you require 10,000 or 100,000 – but in any case, it is less than 1 euro.

Another positive additive is that in this specific energy case Blockchain used the current mobile infrastructure, so you have no operational costs in building your own network. And Blockchain itself is a public registry that is already operated by a community and is secure. Bitcoin, one of the well-known Blockchains, whether you like it or not, has existed for over ten years now. It has never been cracked or compromised in any way – just to say the system is reliable – making the system sustainable.”

The benefits of Blockchain technology for the energy market Riddle&Code has 20 persons working for the company they are still growing. What they realized regarding the use of Blockchain in the energy sector is the relation capex to opex. As an industry, so much equipment is produced and there is so much infrastructure currently underused. Blockchain can help to use equipment and infrastructure to its fullest potential. An example Fürstner offers could be looking at drilling platforms. Tagging for instance the pipes and measuring the throughput, in this

#Usecase consumer

The crypto tag gets provisioned* and marked with QR code before being sent to the customer.

Upon receipts customer performs a ‘digital meter association’**

Every last day of the month the owner of the meter:

Reconciliation process happens on the blockchain:

1. Scans the tag with his/her phone 2. Takes an image of the consumption data (image also shows the tag) 3. Types in the consumption data 4. Sends the data to the blockchain backend

1. E nergy produced (considering specific stake of power plant rented or bought) 2. Energy consumed 3. Distribution charge Instant settlement of outstanding bills.

* Process by which public key of a crypto tag is created and stored on the blockchain ** Process by which a customer takes a picture of the QR code and the meter to which the crypto tag is affixed and registers the initial readings on the meter on Day 0.

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case oil or gas (but it could also be energy or water).

This will allow contractors to look at their equipment in a different manner and use it in a more efficient way.

Entering this information into Blockchain would also make visible what is going where – offering the potential to transform how business transactions are done. A final step in business would be to start trading energy certificates.

These are disruptive times “These are disruptive times for the energy market”, says Fürstner. “Until now there existed energy provider and energy consumer. With the end-consumer consuming the produced energy, it was very much a one-way street. This has turned into a bi-directional relationship in which the consumer harvests her own energy and stores it as well or feeds it back into the energy grid. The question is how do you manage this? Every participant in this economic system can be identified. Next to that, is clear what the consumer contributes, as everything can be traced. How much was consumed. What happened and what didn’t happen. As an energy provider you can plan your energy distribution accordingly. New incentives to new energy consumers. If a consumer allows the energy provider to use the data, without breaking into their privacy – perhaps it would turn out to be a good idea to turn of certain electrical appliances overnight. Using energy is a much more valuable way. These are just possible scenarios that could potentially change the relationship between energy provider and consumer. “

Challenges regarding Blockchain Fürstner says the first challenge is abstract, as the concept of Blockchain is not understood. It can be perceived as a weird way of making money. “It is a new silk road, but people fear it is connected to the dark web or to crime and drugs. When we go to companies to explain what we do we have to elaborate on what Blockchain is and that is mathematically complex not dangerous. I think that is the biggest roadblock. We can use this lack of knowledge to convince people.

For instance, energy providers are big companies who have the tendency to be extremely regulated and slow in decision-making. This kills highly innovative projects.

It is all about mind-set with Blockchain. Once you set Blockchain into motion, there are not many obstacles.

How to maintain Blockchain? Well that is challenge number two; we need people with the right skill set.”

The European regulatory environment does not allow energy providers certain freedoms, which means they cannot publicise much of their data. It is a very private infrastructure. Perhaps this will change in the future.

You could create a Blockchain solely for European energy providers for the trading of energy certificates.

Fürstner: “Back when internet was new and perceived in a similar manner to Blockchain, we told people you could compare the World Wide Web to a data highway, which made sense to people and it felt less outlandish. The same would work for Blockchain, if you explain to people that it’s an open registry where you can add data to or use data from – it feels less alien and more accepted.”

#Usecase power plant

No changes are required to the power plant processes. Legacy systems provide data inputs used by smart contacts activated by customers tags during net metering settlement.

A copy of all energy production data stored on the utility company database is stored on the blockchain.

Reconciliation process happens on the blockchain: 1. E nergy produced (considering specific stake of power plant rented or bought) 2. Energy consumed 3. Distribution charge Instant settlement of outstanding bills.

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Scott Whyte is a geotechnical engineering consultant with global geo-intelligence and asset integrity solutions provider, Fugro, and a DEng student at the University of Oxford within the Renewable Energy Marine Structures (REMS) centre group. His joint industry consultancy and academic activities focus on the science behind designing cost-effective foundations for large-scale wind turbines with the aim of reducing the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) for offshore wind in a fast-moving market.

Installed Offshore Wind Turbine and Soil Stratigraphy Example

Whyte recently delivered a thoughtprovoking presentation, as part of the KIVI engineering society lecture series, titled: “Foundation Design Optimisation for Ever Larger Offshore Wind Turbines: a Geotechnical Perspective”. This article presents a brief overview of some the interesting components of the presentation.

In recent years, Whyte’s work has concentrated on geotechnical design aspects linked to the market-leading solution: monopile foundations. These substructures are now being utilised for the latest 8MW – 9.5MW wind turbine generators (WTG), with monopile diameters ranging from 7.5 m to 9 m,

utilised in water depths of up to 40 m.

Whyte: “This is significantly beyond what was thought possible in terms of turbine size and water depth even five years ago. Dedicated ongoing research efforts by industry and academia have been instrumental in pushing the boundaries of monopile design, further enabled by continuous technology design advances and newly developed procedures being put into practice.”

Whyte added that foundation design optimisation has been a significant component in reducing overall windfarm capital expenditure (CAPEX) which has helped contribute to the overall dramatic drop in costs of offshore wind projects in recent years.

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Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation Examples and Soil Stratigraphy

A major challenge facing the offshore wind industry is the continued pressure to increase the wind turbine size and average array capacity coupled with the increasing development of sites further from shore with increased water depths. The 174-turbine 1.2GW Hornsea One project along the UK east coast is planned for commissioning in 2022 and currently holds the size record for windfarms. This is only a temporary record, as larger projects are already in planning. Hornsea One covers an area of 407 km2, is built in water depths ranging from 23 m to 37 m, and the distance from shore is reported as 120 km. Such large-scale windfarms covering large sea areas show increased potential for considerable soil variability between individual turbine locations.

Whyte: “Subsurface conditions are generally very complex and challenging; at large windfarm sites, soil stratigraphy is often highly variable across turbine locations. Tackling this major site-characterisation challenge requires broad-scale thinking and fresh engineering considerations.”

Whyte believes that the best solution to overcome some of the issues associated with developing large windfarm sites is by building ‘fully informed’ three-dimensional (3D) ground models: “The development of 3D ground models as a site characterisation tool, hosted as digital GIS databases, combining a large amount of multidisciplinary data (e.g. metocean,

GIS-hosted 3D Ground Model

geological, geophysical, geotechnical) allow the project team live access to the latest datasets from a single, intuitive, web-hosted map-based system. The use of a holistic digital database to host and store all the geo-data associated with the site is pivotal to help mitigate potential geo-risks across large wind farm sites and develop the most optimised design solutions.”

Whyte continued to explain that across a large windfarm site, there will be many different geotechnical constraints, some of which are not immediately obvious, such as: pile buckling risks, failure to install suction buckets, shallow

(insufficient) pile penetration length, gravity-based foundations not being suitable due to local bathymetry, and dynamic seabed/scour conditions.

Such geotechnical constraints can be identified and mitigated at an early stage with the use of a 3D ground model.

Whyte added: “The days of using many individual uncoupled site investigation reports are behind us and the importance of a holistic integrated digital ground modelling approach is now widely recognised as essential by windfarm developers.

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The 3D ground models are often coupled with other spatial drivers, such as wake turbulence modelling and cable connection least cost maps, to inform developers on the most economical wind turbine layout.”

Another recent development in site characterisation for offshore wind farm sites, Whyte discussed, was closer co-operation between the geotechnical contractor and the foundation designer at an early stage of the site investigation process. Historically the geotechnical design consultant would inherit data collected by a site investigation contractor. Unfortunately, this was rather inefficient and often led to incorrect data being collected for advanced design methods, which often requires highly specialised testing. However, more

recently, geotechnical site investigation contractors and consultants are working together at the inception of a project to maximise efficiency.

Whyte stated: “Fugro, recognising this, have incorporated their site investigation and consulting divisions, into a harmonious site characterisation service line, which enables consultants and contractors to work collaboratively from an early stage in the project development cycle. This subtle, but significant change in the site characterisation process doesn’t seem like a seismic shift; however, coupled with advanced analysis methods, this has already started to yield further cost savings” As the project evolves from an early concept design and data collection

stage to a detailed design phase the complexity of the analysis methods used also increase with highly advanced numerical tools being employed more regularly with the aim of reducing costs Whyte stated: “Although design standards play a very important role in the design of offshore wind turbine foundations, the use of niche and bespoke numerical analysis techniques are being employed increasingly frequently to refine the foundation design.”

Recent publication of the PISA joint industry research project, which was concerned with the development of improved design methods for offshore monopiles, presents a good example of the way the design process for offshore wind turbines is rapidly

progressing. Previously, offshore wind monopile foundations were being designed according to Oil and Gas design standards, however, monitoring data of installed wind turbines highlighted these foundations were often significantly over-designed. As a result, the PISA project, which was led by the University of Oxford, Imperial College London and Ørsted Wind Power, focused on developing a new design method which the industry could utilise for the design of offshore wind turbine foundations. The PISA approach outlined a site-specific methodology for the design of offshore monopiles, as opposed to a rigid codified approach.

This methodology involves performing a small number of 3D Finite Element Analysis (FEA) calculations, which can often take extensive periods, to

develop site-specific reaction curves to use in 1D pile analysis calculations that can then be performed rapidly to dramatically reduce the effort required for foundation optimisation across a site. As a result, 3D FEA calculations are now being employed more routinely to assist in optimising the design offshore wind turbine foundations.

Whyte went on to show several examples of bespoke soil models which have been developed by Fugro to better capture the salient features of soil response in 3D FEA calculations. Such soil models, termed constitutive models, are a mathematical representation of soils mechanical behaviour, and a fundamental building block of a geotechnical FEA calculation.

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Previously, the use of such advanced numerical models were confined to the realms of academia; however, they are now being developed and implemented by specialised geotechnical consultants to better predict the foundation response and hence allow for more optimised design.

Whyte added that: “The use of such advanced soil models and numerical analysis techniques must be coupled with suitably advanced laboratory testing at the site investigation stage to maximise potential savings.” Whyte also remarked on the complexity of monopile installation, in particular, highlighting the need for pile buckling to be reviewed in detail. Unfortunately, Whyte felt this was, until recently, often being overlooked by many windfarm developers.

Finally, Whyte highlighted the need for the industry to concentrate on developing cloud-based engineering design applications to develop complex foundation optimisation tools: “Fugro, in collaboration with Dr. James Doherty from University of Western Australia have focused on developing cloudbased applications that allow for rapid and rigorous foundation optimisation to be performed. The scalability of these numerical tools is truly incredible with the potential to run a huge number of calculations simultaneously across a virtually unlimited number of processors.

Having access to an almost unlimited computer resources means that reliability-based design optimisation approaches (i.e. accounting for the uncertainties in the design process) become more feasible.”

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OFFSHORE WIND CONFERENCE

Offshore Wind Conference The 9th annual Offshore Wind Conference brings together the entire offshore wind value chain to discuss current and future developments. In addition to key project updates, topics include future-proofing business models for subsidy-free offshore wind, redesigning electricity markets for abundant offshore wind and solutions for storage.

Many speakers are already confirmed and the line-up is looking good.

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Monday 22 October 2018 Update NL This free to attend session is a pre-event to the Offshore Wind Conference and gives an update on developments in the Dutch offshore wind industry.

Speakers: Ruud de Bruijne, Project Manager offshore wind energy, Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) Bob Meijer, TKI Offshore Wind

Opening session: A new dawn for offshore wind The keynote speakers in the opening session set the scene for the conference.

We have entered a new phase in offshore wind power with zero-subsidy bids where governments take on and manage a share of the project risk. The focus is on innovations, bigger turbines with higher capacity factors and a solid government policy. Is this development sustainable?

Thematic session 1: Energy security and offshore wind This session looks at how the European energy system and reliability, optionality, storage of excess power,etc. Questions that will be discussed are: how is the system adapting to accommodate renewable electricity and to maintain energy security? How can power markets absorb large amounts of cheap electricity?

What energy storage solutions are conceivable and which are available?

Thematic session 2: Profibility and financeability of offshore wind The LCOE of offshore wind have dropped dramatically in the last ten years. Earlier this year, the first subsidy free tender was won. What does this mean for financing of new windfarms and for the profitability of existing and yet to be built offshore windfarms? What new business models do experts see emerging?

Tuesday 23 October 2018 Thematic session 3: New Markets for offshore wind The offshore wind industry is expected to grow to 120 GW total installed capacity by 2030. Much of this growth will take place in Europe but there will also a considerable increase in capacity in North America and Asia. This session takes a closer look at growth markets and newcomers and the business opportunities they bring.

Thematic session 4: New technologies and new talents in offshore wind The technologies developed for and deployed by the offshore wind industry are continuously improving. In 2017 the world's first floating offshore wind farm started generating power and more will follow. In order to keep expanding and maturing, the industry requires a new workforce.

Offshore Energy 2018 Offshore Wind Conference will be held on 22 and 23 October as part of the extensive Offshore Energy Conference. Offshore Energy attracts a global audience of offshore energy professionals and features an exhibition where over 600 companies will showcase their products and services. Offshore Energy covers both the exploration and production of the conventional energy resources, oil & gas, and the renewable part of the energy mix such as offshore wind and marine energy. It is the place to find out where the future of energy is heading Find out more on the programme and make sure you book your tickets to the conference via www.offshore-energy.biz.

This session looks at the latest technology development in offshore wind and offers a platform for the ideas of the next generation of offshore wind professionals.

Speakers: Erik-Jan de Ridder, teamleader Renewable energy

Closing session: The broader view This sessions zooms out to allow a view on the world surrounding the offshore wind industry. It will discuss broad trends such as electrification of our economies, the geopolitics of renewables and the position and scope of offshore wind within the global offshore energy industry.

Speakers: Tim Gould, IEA

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UK SKETCHES DECADE-LONG OFFSHORE WIND PLAN The UK government has committed to opening the Contracts for Difference (CfD) auctions for offshore wind every two years from 2019 throughout the 2020s. The commitment is part of a £557 million package to support the development of less established technologies such as offshore wind and remote island wind. The first allocation round is expected to be held by May next year, with the second round slated for 2021 and every two years or so from then on.

Depending on the price achieved, these auctions are expected to deliver between one to two gigawatts of offshore wind each year in the 2020s.

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ULJANIK DELIVERS APOLLO TO GEOSEA Croatian shipbuilder Uljanik Shipyard has delivered the multi-purpose, self-propelled jack-up vessel Apollo to GeoSea. The vessel is equipped with four 106.8m long legs that allow it to work at depths of down to 70m.

With a deadweight of 5,196.2t, the jack-up is 89.32m long, 42m wide, 8m tall and can reach a speed of 11.92kn powered by the main engines: 4 x ABC 2,688kW and 2 x ABC 1,512kW. Apollo is intended for various operations, such as wind turbine installation, heavy load transportation and assembly, and can also be used as an accommodation platform for 90 people. The vessel will sail under the Luxembourg flag.

MITSUI SECURES OFFSHORE WIND DEAL IN TAIWAN

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Mitsui & Co., Ltd. has completed all necessary procedures to enter into a definitive agreement to acquire a 50% share of Yushan Energy Taiwan Co., from Singapore’s Yushan Energy Co., a subsidiary of Enterprize Energy Group.

Yushan Energy Taiwan holds a 40% stake in the Hai Long offshore wind development in Taiwan, alongside Canadian partner Northland Power Inc. Mitsui & Co. acquired a 20% interest in the project by acquiring a 50% stake of Yushan Energy Taiwan, and plans to develop, construct, and operate the 1,044MW offshore wind farm together with Northland Power and Yushan Energy. Once the final investment decision is made sometime after 2021, commercial operations will be launched by 2025, and all electricity generated from the plant is to be sold to Taiwan Power Company over a 20-year period.

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© Taiwan International Ports Corp. (TIPC) Taiwan International Ports Corp. (TIPC) has launched Taiwan’s first offshore wind crew transfer vessel (CTV) at the Port of Taichung in the Changhua County. The TIPM 22601 is one of two CTVs TIPC Marine Corporation, a subsidiary of TIPC, ordered from the compatriot Lung Teh Shipbuilding.

The 26m long vessel was built at a cost of NT$125 million (approximately €3.5 million) and can carry up to 12 wind technicians. The CTV was unveiled at an agreement signing ceremony between TIPC and the Changhua County Government for joint construction and development of an offshore wind operations and maintenance hub at the Taichung Port.

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Ørsted and the Taiwanese Century Wind Power (CWP) GE Renewable Energy has contracted Bernhard Schulte Offshore to provide a new-build service operation vessel (SOV) which will support the maintenance of 66 Haliade 150-6MW turbines at the Merkur offshore wind farm in Germany. Following the contract, Bernhard Schulte placed an order with Ulstein Verft for the vessel. The 93.4m long SOV will have a centrally positioned walk-to-work motion compensated gangway and elevator tower for personnel and cargo transfers, as well as a 3D compensated crane.

The vessel will have the capacity to accommodate 120 persons once delivered in early 2020.

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VINEYARD WIND TO CUT ELECTRICITY BILLS

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The 800MW Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm in Massachusetts will deliver electricity at a total levelized price of $65/MWh for energy and Renewable Energy Credits (RECs), lowering the electricity users’ monthly bills by up to 1.5%. Vineyard Wind and the Massachusetts EDCs have concluded negotiations on the long-term contracts for the project. The agreed electricity price is materially below the levelized projected costs of buying the same amount of wholesale energy and RECs in the market, which is projected to be a total levelized price of $79/MWh in 2017 dollars over the 20-year term of the contracts. Over the life of the contract, Vineyard Wind is projected to provide an average $14/MWh of direct savings to ratepayers. The total direct and indirect benefits to ratepayers from the long-term contracts are expected to be $35.29/MWh on average, with total net benefits of circa $1.4 billion. The contracts will be delivered in two phases with expected commercial operation dates of 15 January 2022 for the first 400MW phase, and 15 January 2023 for the second 400MW phase.

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SEA PUFFIN 1 BEGINS SEA TRIALS Sea Puffin 1, the world’s first daughter craft based on surfaceeffect-ship (SES) technology, has begun two-month sea trials at Vattenfall’s Horns Rev 1 and Ørsted’s Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farms in the Danish North Sea. The vessel, designed by Norwegian company ESNA, was built at the Esbjerg Shipyard and delivered in July to WindPartner, who is in charge of conducting the sea trials. Sea Puffin’s design aims to enable developers to operate daughter craft vessels © ESNA in harsher weather conditions.

The 15m long SES daughter craft employs an air cushion for active motion damping, resulting in access capabilities beyond conventional daughter craft vessels, while reducing fuel consumption. The compact size is also said to enable vessel deployment using a conventional 15t davit crane fitted onto a mothership. WindPartner and ESNA have a long-term cooperation agreement with the ambition to build a series of this vessel type in the next few years.

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SIEMENS GAMESA SIGNS TEN MOUs IN TAIWAN Siemens Gamesa has signed ten Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with a range of suppliers in Taiwan, including six global Tier 1 suppliers and four local suppliers. The agreements come as a complement to previous deals the company signed with Yeong Guan Energy Technology Group (YGG) and Swancor Holding Co., and cover solutions for offshore wind turbine components including machining, control systems, coolers, and more. Timelines have not been set for finalization of the cooperation agreements. Each of the non-binding MoUs include, among other terms, the establishment or the use by suppliers of facilities in Taiwan, price competitiveness, as well as compliance to Siemens Gamesa’s quality, health, safety and environment (HSE) standards. Siemens Gamesa will provide support and advice on technical qualifications and ramping up activities for each supplier.

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FISTUCA KICKS-OFF BLUE HAMMER TESTS

CSBC STARTS 140M BARGE CONSTRUCTION

Fistuca has begun testing the BLUE Hammer at Maasvlakte 2 in the Port of Rotterdam, the BLUE Piling technology for driving the foundation piles of offshore wind turbines into the seabed. With BLUE Piling a column of water is pushed up by the combustion of a gas mix. The water then falls back down by force of gravity and strikes the monopile. This relatively slow pile-driving movement means the monopile suffers less damage than with conventional methods. The new technology promises a reduction in time and correspondingly lower costs involved in the installation process. Studies are also being carried out to establish if the technology works well and whether any improvements are necessary.

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The Dutch Gould Services has reached an agreement to CSBC has started constructing a 140m barge that will serve the offshore wind sector in Taiwan. The company is fully in charge of the vessel, from the design and investment to construction itself. The barge will be equipped with a ballasting system to meet the requirement of Kaohsiung, Keelung, Taichung and Taipei ports. It will have a load capacity of up to 23,000t, with large deck space capable of loading extra-large and heavy cargo, and will enable loading by stern in, side in and lift. It will be able to carry a complete offshore substation in one run, with a 3,500t foundation and 3,400t topside and four 300t pin piles on board. When it comes to jacket foundations, the barge will be capable of transporting three 30mx30m jackets, each weighing up to 1,200t and with a height of up to 80m. The vessel is expected to be in service by the second quarter of 2019.

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ASM INDUSTRIES SECURES INVESTMENT FOR OFFSHORE WIND PLANT The Portugal-based ASM Industries has signed a €4.5 million investment agreement with an undisclosed institutional investor for ASM Offshore, its wind foundations and towers manufacturing unit. The investment is equivalent to the acquisition of a 15% stake in the ASM Offshore Industrial Unit. The facility is located in the Logistics and Industrial Activities Zone of the Port of Aveiro (ZALI) at an area of about 72,000m2. It is expected to create 150 jobs once it starts operating in March next year. The project represents an investment of €29 million and is co-financed by Compete 2020, Portugal 2020, and the European regional development fund.

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INNOGY TO SELL PART OF TRITON KNOLL Innogy has agreed to sell a 41% stake in its 860MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK to Japan’s J-Power (25%) and Kansai Electric Power (16%). Innogy Renewables UK Ltd., a subsidiary of innogy, has signed the agreement with Electric Power Development, operating under the name J-Power, through its subsidiary JP Renewable Europe Company (JPREC), and to Kansai Electric Power, through its subsidiary KPIC Netherlands B.V. Innogy will retain the majority equity stake of 59%.

The closing of the transaction is subject to the approval of innogy’s Supervisory Board and financial close with the debt funding of the Triton Knoll project, expected shortly. The planned investment volume in the Triton Knoll project amounts to approximately £2 billion. JPREC will procure a part of its investment funds by issuing preferred equity to the Development Bank of Japan Inc.

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ØRSTED BEGINS TRANSITION PIECE MOCK-UP FABRICATION

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Ørsted and the Taiwanese Century Wind Power (CWP) have cut the first steel for the jacket foundation transition piece mock-up. CWP is working with Bladt Industries on the construction of the mock-up as part of a joint venture established as its subsidiary. The project is expected to enable the Taiwan-based company to become more mature and ready for full-scale construction of jacket foundations for the local offshore wind market, as well as Ørsted’s Greater Changhua offshore wind project, for which the two parties are collaborating on turbine foundation manufacturing. The delivery of the transition piece is scheduled for the second half of 2018.

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VROON OPENS MPI BUSINESS SALE SEASON Vroon has signed an agreement with Van Oord for the takeover of MPI Offshore, a specialist offshore wind installation contractor, under which Van Oord will acquire the MPI organization in Stokesley, UK, and the vessels and crew of the MPI Adventure and MPI Resolution with associated contracts. The transaction is subject to the approval of competition authorities and due diligence and is expected to be closed by the end of September. Earlier, Vroon signed agreements for Jan De Nul Group to acquire part of the offshore business of MPI, including the ownership of the jack-up vessel MPI Discovery together with its crew, as well as a number of MPI’s employees.

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RANAWORKS NETS FIRST CONTRACT Ørsted has signed a contract with the Taiwan-based RanaWorks, a newly established joint venture of Italian RANA Diving SpA and Dutch Workships Contractors BV, has won its first contract, which includes working on an offshore wind project in Germany. Under the contract, RanaWorks will provide all-round above waterline support during the installation of the project in German territorial waters, whose name the company did not disclose. The works include structural repairs, installation of safety equipment, as well as paint repairs. The activities will be carried out by using working at height and rope access techniques.

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GOULD SERVICES TAKES OVER TOTAL WIND BENELUX WORK The Dutch Gould Services has reached an agreement to take over all activities of compatriot Total Wind Benelux, including a contract for the Merkur offshore wind farm.

The deal, which applies retroactively from 1 May, will see Gould Services continue Total Wind Benelux’s ongoing contract with GE Renewable Energy for the pre-assembly of 66 Haliade 150-6MW turbines at the German project.

Currently, Total Wind’s subsidiary has around 85 personnel in operation, managed from the head office in Middelburg, and is supplying technical support and maintenance to Dutch onshore wind farms. The agreement will make sure that the jobs are maintained, projects continued and Gould Services’ three main activities, including wind farm services, offshore service base and logistics, strengthened.

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BARBADOS INVESTIGATING OFFSHORE WIND POTENTIAL The government of Barbados has invited expressions of interest for a wide range of studies that would lead to the construction of a large-scale bottom-fixed or floating offshore wind or ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) project. The government received financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the European Union (EU) towards the Public Sector Smart Energy Program and intends to apply part of the proceeds to procure consulting services for which it issued this expression of interest call. Barbados is looking to carry out a wide range of technical and environmental studies, as well as related capacity building activities, to investigate the feasibility and facilitate the construction of a large-scale offshore renewable energy project. The studies will be undertaken considering the use of OTEC, offshore wind, and floating offshore wind technologies.

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OHT ORDERS NEW FOUNDATION INSTALLATION VESSEL The Norwegian Offshore Heavy Transport (OHT) has signed a contract with China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) for the construction of a 48,000 dwt semisubmersible offshore wind foundation installation vessel. OHT has developed the design in cooperation with Ulstein Design & Solutions BV, Liebherr and DNV GL. The vessel is said to combine a cargo carrying capacity with a 3,000t crane and the ability to submerge offshore. Total usable deck area exceeds 10,000m2 providing accommodation to up to ten 1,500t jacket foundations or eleven 2,000t monopiles with transition pieces and mission equipment.

The 216m long vessel is expected to be ready for project deployment from early 2021.

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NEW YORK SEEKS MORE OFFSHORE WIND SITES New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called on the US Department of Interior to delineate and lease at least four new wind energy areas recommended by the state’s Offshore Wind Master Plan. The four lease areas, totaling 3.2GW, would support New York’s offshore wind initiative which calls for the development of 2.4GW capacity by 2030, in addition to the 90MW South Fork project already underway and another 800MW of capacity expected to be procured by 2019. The lease areas are situated on the New York Bight, an area of shallow waters between Long Island to the north and east and the New Jersey coast to the south and west.

INDUSTRY WANTS 3GW OF FLOATING WIND IN FRANCE BY 2030

© Øyvind Gravås/ Woldcam - Statoil ASA More than 70 companies and institutions have called for the development of 3GW of floating offshore wind in the French Mediterranean by 2030. According to a joint statement, the French Mediterranean is ready to host the first commercial offshore floating wind tender in 2019. The 3GW objective will be included in the regional development plans of the South-Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur and Occitanie/ PyrénéesMéditerranée regions (SRADDET). Equinor, the owner and operator of Hywind Scotland - the world’s first commercial floating wind farm, GE Renewable Energy, Siemens Gamesa, Senvion, wpd, Engie, EDP Renewables, EDF Energies Nouvelles, etc., are just a number of signatories.

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BEATRICE CAPACITY

588MW

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84

FOUNDATIONS JACKETS SUBSTATIONS 2 The Beatrice offshore wind farm exported power to the UK National Grid for the first time in July, following the installation of the first Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbine at the site in the Scottish Moray Firth a few days before. Swire Blue Ocean’s jack-up vessel Pacific Orca is loading turbine components at the Nigg port, Siemens Gamesa’s pre-assembly base. It is carrying five sets of turbines at once to the offshore construction site, where they are being installed in a pre-programmed installation sequence. The turbine commissioning is taking place immediately after each piece is

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installed and is being carried out using a combination of the walkto-work vessel Island Crown and crew transfer vessels (CTV) Fob Swath 3 and Seacat Resolute.

HORNSEA PROJECT ONE CAPACITY

1.2GW

TURBINES

174

FOUNDATIONS MONOPILES SUBSTATIONS 4 All three offshore substations and the world’s first Reactive Compensation Substation (RCS) have been installed at Ørsted’s Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. Bladt Industries delivered the first substation topside in April, with the RCS installed in June and the two remaining substation topsides the next month. Since the project is located © Ørsted

farther from shore than other farms, the RCS is necessary to enable transmission through much longer cables. The three substations convert the clean electricity from the turbines’ medium voltage cables to high voltage, so it can be exported with fewer losses, with the electricity then transferred via the RCS, located halfway between the site and the grid on shore. The purpose of the RCS is to compensate for the reactive power generated in the wind farm power system. Hornsea Project One will become the largest offshore wind farm in the world once fully operational in 2020.

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EUROPEAN OFFSHORE WIND DEPLOYMENT CENTRE (EOWDC)/ ABERDEEN OFFSHORE WIND FARM

UK

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FOUNDATIONS SUCTION BUCKET JACKETS SUBSTATIONS 0 Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) generated its first power to the National Grid on 1 July via 66kV subsea cabling. This is the first time cabling of this capacity has been used on a commercial offshore wind project in Scotland, with over 21km installed from the project in the Aberdeen Bay to the Blackdog Substation. EOWDC, also known as Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, comprises nine MHI Vestas 8.4MW turbines and two MHI Vestas turbines with a record-breaking capacity of 8.8MW. Apart from generating electricity, the wind farm will be a center for testing and developing new technologies for offshore wind power. Vattenfall and Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult recently formed an alliance to allow offshore wind innovators the opportunity to test and demonstrate new technology in real-world operating conditions at the project.

EAST ANGLIA ONE CAPACITY

714MW

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FOUNDATIONS JACKETS SUBSTATIONS 1 The past few months have been busy at the East Anglia One offshore wind farm, with the first jacket foundation installed in mid-June, followed by the completed construction of the project’s offshore substation. Navantia delivered the substation to Iberdrola, the developer of the wind farm, at a ceremony held on 3 July at the Puerto Real shipyard, where it was christened as Andalucía II. The substation is scheduled to arrive at the offshore site some 45km southeast of Lowestoft in early September. At the end of July, the project owner, ScottishPower Renewables, held a groundbreaking ceremony for the wind farm’s O&M base at the Port of Lowestoft, which will support the offshore construction work on the wind farm, as well as the 30-plus years © Van Oord

operational lifespan.

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DEUTSCHE BUCHT CAPACITY

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The Deutsche Bucht Mono Bucket pilot demonstrator project has reached financial close. The project will see two MHI Vestas V164-8.4MW turbines mounted on mono bucket foundations added to the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm, contributing an additional 17MW to the base capacity of 252MW for a total of 269MW and 33 turbines. As the general contractor for the Balance of Plant, Van Oord is responsible for the manufacturing and installation of the mono buckets. In-water construction at the offshore site some 95km north-west of the island of Borkum is expected to begin soon, with the installation of the mono bucket foundations following in the second quarter of 2019. Full commissioning is expected in the second half of the same year.

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TRIANEL WINDPARK BORKUM II CAPACITY

203MW

TURBINES

32

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1

Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Stanislav Yudin installed the first monopile at the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWB II) offshore wind farm some 40km north of the island of Borkum at the end of June.

The foundations, weighing up to 900t, and their corresponding 300t transition pieces are transported on barges from Nordenham to the construction site.

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be installed by Jan De Nul and are scheduled to be commissioned by the end of 2019.

ARKONA CAPACITY 385MW TURBINES 60 FOUNDATIONS MONOPILES SUBSTATIONS 1

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GeoSea’s installation vessel Sea Challenger installed the first of 60 turbines at the Arkona offshore wind farm at the beginning of July. The project team prepares each turbine for power generation immediately after it is installed.

Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) Ltd is providing the full temporary power package of generators, personnel and vessels for E.ON during the turbine installation at the wind farm site off the coast of Rügen. Meanwhile, the project’s substation is being commissioned and works on the connection to the mainland are being completed.

The commissioning of the 385MW offshore wind farm is scheduled for the beginning of 2019 the latest.

MERKUR CAPACITY

396MW

TURBINES

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2

The Merkur offshore wind farm produced its first power at the beginning of June following a successful test on one of its GE Haliade 6MW turbines. The first test on the MO40 turbine ©Merkur Offshore/ Alexander Kuhn

generated power to the mini-grid. Power was gradually increased to 2MW, which was the maximum that could have been achieved with the wind speed at the time. In mid-July, Merkur Offshore GmbH completed €1.5 billion senior debt restructuring for the wind farm, said to enable the company to benefit from the current competitive debt market environment and to

BORKUM RIFFGRUND 2 CAPACITY

450MW

TURBINES

56

optimize debt pricing, leverage and tenor in the future post construction of the project.

The 396MW project is expected to be fully commissioned in 2019.

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Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm transmitted first electricity to the German national grid on 4 August. The power required for the commissioning came from the sister project Borkum Riffgrund 1, which is connected to the Borkum Riffgrund 2 by means of a connecting cable. Shortly after, Van Oord completed the cable installation work at the site some 45km off the coast of Lower Saxony, which included the transport, installation and burial of infield cables, as well as interlink cables to the adjacent Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore substation. The wind farm’s 56 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines are mounted on 20 suction bucket jacket foundations, which GeoSea’s jack-up vessel Innovation installed in June, as well as on 36 monopile foundations, installed in May. All of the turbines are expected to be commissioned by the end of the year, with the wind farm scheduled to be fully operational early in 2019. ©Ørsted/ Matthias Ibeler

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WINDPARK FRYSLÂN CAPACITY

382.7MW

TURBINES

89

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The Council of State has dismissed eight objections filed against the final permits for Windpark Fryslân, clearing the way for the construction of the project in the Frisian part of the Ijsselmeer, the Netherlands. Siemens Gamesa and Van Oord were selected as the preferred contractor for the construction of the project. Van Oord is responsible for the Balance of Plant work, including the design, fabrication, and installation of the foundations and cables, as well as the supply of the equipment for installing the turbines. Siemens Gamesa will design, fabricate, and commission the SWT-DD-130 turbines and the onshore substation. The final contracts for the construction are expected to be signed later this year, with the works scheduled to start in 2019.

SEAMADE CAPACITY

487.2MW

TURBINES

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2

The developers of the Mermaid and the Seastar offshore wind farms in the Belgian North Sea have merged the two projects into one - Seamade. The

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merger was cleared by the European Commission in July and will allow for both projects to be financed through one project transaction. The Commission also approved the entrance of Eneco Wind Belgium SA in the share capital of the Seamade offshore wind farm, for which the European Investment Bank (EIB) recently agreed to provide an undisclosed amount of funding.

Seamade NV, a joint venture between Otary (70%), Electrabel (17.5%), and Eneco Wind Belgium SA (12.5%), aims to reach the final investment decision on the project by the end of the year and enter the construction phase in 2019.

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NORTHER CAPACITY

370MW

TURBINES

44

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1

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Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus has started installing monopile foundations on the Norther wind farm in the Belgian North Sea. The project’s Offshore High Voltage Station (OHVS) followed the monopile installation, setting sail towards the construction site some 23km off the coast of Zeebrugge in mid-August. The substation was built at the Hoboken yard of ENGIE Fabricom by the consortium partners ENGIE Fabricom, Smulders and CG. Besides Aeolus, Van Oord, the main contractor of the project, will be deploying its cable-laying vessel Nexus on the wind farm in the next few months. Norther will comprise 44 MHI Vestas V164-8.0 MW turbines optimized to deliver a maximum output of 8.4MW. Once fully operational in 2019, it will become Belgium’s largest offshore wind farm.

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HORNS REV 3 CAPACITY

406.7MW

TURBINES

49

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The first MHI Vestas 8.3MW turbine was installed on Vattenfall’s Horns Rev 3 wind farm in the Danish North Sea in mid-July. Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Brave Tern is responsible for picking up the turbines from the Port of Esbjerg and installing them at the site 25-40km offshore the Danish west coast. A2SEA is in charge of the planning and execution of the wind turbine installation. At the same time, Jan De Nul’s installation vessel Vole au vent is installing the wind farm’s transition pieces. The Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm is scheduled for full commissioning in 2020.

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KRIEGERS FLAK CAPACITY

605MW

TURBINES

72

FOUNDATIONS MONOPILES SUBSTATION

2

Heavy lift vessel Rambiz installed the Kriegers Flak A and B substation topsides at the offshore wind farm in Denmark in May, which is followed by the recent installation of both offshore cables of the Combined Grid Solution (CGS), connecting the Danish and German transmission grids in combination with the infrastructure of offshore wind farm grid connection in the Baltic Sea. The Kriegers Flak A and the Kriegers Flak B substations will collect the power generated by the wind farm and deliver it to the mainland. The platforms © Energinet

are expected to be powered on 1 October, with the Kriegers Flak project slated for full commissioning by 2022.

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JIANGSU DAFENG THREE GORGES CAPACITY 300MW TURBINES 60 FOUNDATIONS UNKNOWN SUBSTATION 1

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The Jiangsu Dafeng Three Gorges offshore wind farm in China is currently in the turbine installation phase, with the first Goldwind 3.3MW unit put into place at the end of May. The 300MW wind farm will feature 43 Goldwind 3.3MW turbines and 17 Goldwind 6.45MW turbines

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installed offshore Jiangsu Province in the East China Sea. The project is jointly owned and developed by Goldwind and China Three Gorges. Once completed, Jiangsu Dafeng Three Gorges will generate as much as 797 million kWh of electricity per year, providing power to 500,000 households in the coastal regions.

FORMOSA 1 PHASE 2 CAPACITY 120MW TURBINES 20 FOUNDATIONS MONOPILES SUBSTATION 0 Formosa 1 Phase 2 has reached financial close. A financial consortium of eleven international and local Taiwanese banks and EKF Denmark’s Export Credit Agency completed the NT$18.7 billion (€533 million), 16-year project financing. Jan De Nul, who is responsible for the design, procurement and installation of the turbine foundations for the wind farm, recently contracted JDR Cable Systems to manufacture and supply inter-array, export and land cables for the project. The company also signed a contract with EEW SPC for the production ©Ørsted

of the project’s 20 monopiles. The existing first phase of the project, consisting of two 4MW turbines, has been operational since April 2017, and will see a 120MW expansion once the Phase 2 is constructed in 2019.

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VINEYARD WIND CAPACITY 800MW TURBINES

UP TO 106

USA

FOUNDATIONS MONOPILES SUBSTATION 2 Geotechnical data acquisition company Geoquip Marine Group has completed a geotechnical campaign at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm in Massachusetts. The geotechnical drilling vessel Dina Polaris was mobilized for a period of 81 days and completed over 2,500m of deep seabed cone penetration testing and in excess of 2,000m of downhole testing. Vineyard Wind also recently chose WSP USA and Wood Thilsted to provide detailed design of foundations for the project. The developer, a joint venture of Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, plans to enter the construction phase next year, with the project operational by 2021.

COASTAL VIRGINIA OFFSHORE WIND (CVOW) PROJECT CAPACITY 12MW TURBINES 2 FOUNDATIONS MONOPILES SUBSTATION 0

© Siemens Gamesa

Ørsted and Siemens Gamesa have signed a subcontract to supply wind turbines for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project founded by Dominion Energy. The Danish company is in charge of constructing the project as part of a strategic initiative with Dominion Energy and will install two units of Siemens Gamesa’s 6-MW SWT-6.0-154 turbines. The blades will be produced at Siemens Gamesa’s manufacturing facility in Aalborg, Denmark, and the nacelle assemblies will originate from its facility in Cuxhaven, Germany. The deliveries are expected to begin in mid-2020.

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SAINT-NAZAIRE CAPACITY

480MW

TURBINES

80

FOUNDATIONS MONOPILES © Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm

SUBSTATIONS 1 Fugro has completed a geotechnical survey campaign at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. The works included sampling of the soil in locations where 80 of the wind farm’s turbine foundations are planned to be installed.

The layout of the project O&M base, which will be built in La Turballe, has also recently been finalized. The Saint-Nazaire wind farm comprises 80 6MW GE Haliade 150 turbines scheduled for commissioning in 2022. The owners and developers of the project are EDF Energies Nouvelles, a subsidiary of the EDF group, and the Canadian Enbridge Inc.

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WINDFLOAT ATLANTIC CAPACITY 25MW TURBINES 3 FOUNDATIONS FLOATING: SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE SUBSTATIONS 0

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Navantia has commenced the construction of a floating foundation for the WindFloat Atlantic offshore wind project at the Fene shipyard in Spain. The semi-submersible foundation will be transported to the Outer Port of Ferrol by the end of June 2019, where a MHI Vestas 8.4MW offshore wind turbine will be installed on top of it. The complete structure will then be towed to Portugal for installation about 20km off the Viana do Castelo coast in water depth of 100m. The WindFloat Atlantic project will feature three of the MHI Vestas V164-8.0MW turbines mounted on semi-submersible foundations developed by Principle Power. The project, expected to be operational in 2019, is being developed

by WindPlus, a consortium of EDP Renewables, Mitsubishi Corporation (DGE), Chiyoda Corporation, Trust Energy (Engie and Marubeni), and Repsol.

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NOVEMBER

Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (22), 23 & 24 October Conference & Exhibition Amsterdam, the Netherlands www.offshore-energy.biz

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WindEurope Conference & Exhibition 2 - 4 April Conference & Exhibition Bilbao, Spain www.windeurope.org/confex2019

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All Energy 15 - 16 May Conference & Exhibition Glasgow, United Kingdom www.all-energy.co.uk WINDFORCE Conference 21 - 22 May Conference Bremerhaven, Germany www.windforce.info

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Contractors

Cables & Components

OIL CONTROL SYSTEMS Vlotlaan 232 2681 TV Monster The Netherlands T +31 17 42 81 67 5 info@oilcontrolsystems.nl www.oilcontrolsystems.nl

VBMS P.O. Box 282 3350 AG Papendrecht The Netherlands T +31 78 641 7500 E info@vbms.com

JAN DE NUL GROUP 34-36 Parc d’activités Capellen 8308 Capellen Luxembourg T +35 23 98 91 1 info@jandenulgroup.com www.jandenul.com

NGC TRANSMISSION Nanjing High Speed Gear Manufacturing 30 Houjiao Road Jiangning District, Nanjing, China T +86 25 5217 2849 sales@NGCtransmission.com www.ngctransmission.com

GEOSEA NV Haven 1025 – Scheldedijk 30 2070 Zwijndrecht Belgium T +32 32 50 52 11 Info.geosea@deme-group.com www.deme-group.com/geosea

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VERWEIJ HOEBEE GROEP Marine Surveyors and Consulting Engineers Osdorper Ban 17 BC 1068 LD Amsterdam The Netherlands T +31 (0) 20 61 07 26 0 info@verweij-hoebee.nl www.verweij-hoebee.nl

GUSTOMSC BV Karel Doormanweg 35 3115 JD Schiedam T +31 (0)10 28 83 00 0 info@gustomsc.com www.gustomsc.com

Installation Vessels

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BALTIC TAUCHEREIUND BERGUNGSBETRIEB ROSTOCK GMBH Alter Hafen Sud 3 18069 Rostock Germany T +49 39 18 11 10 00 info@baltic-taucher.de www.baltic-tacher.de

ING BANK N.V. Bijlmerplein 888 P.O. Box 1800 1000 BV Amsterdam The Netherlands T +31 (0)20 56 51 02 4 steven.evans@ingbank.com www.ingwb.com

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Contractors

C-VENTUS OFFSHORE WINDFARM SERVICES BV Havenkade 100a 1973 AM IJmuiden The Netherlands T +31 25 58 20 02 0 E-mail: info@c-ventus.com

Diving Operations

LONDON OFFSHORE CONSULTANTS LIMITED Ibex House 42-47 Minories London EC3N 1DY United Kingdom T +44 20 72 64 32 50 london@loc-group.com www.loc-group.com

VAN OORD OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS BV P.O. Box 458 4200 AL Gorinchem The Netherlands T +31 88 82 65 20 0 area.owp@vanoord.com www.vanoord.com

DELTA LLOYD Postbus 1000, 1000 BA Amsterdam The Netherlands T +31 (0) 61 06 23 93 1 willem_schrijver@deltalloyd.nl www.deltalloyd.com

STC-KNRM Quarantaineweg 98 3089 KP Rotterdam – Heijplaat T +31 (0) 10 42 83 86 0 info@stc-knrm.nl www.stc-knrm.nl

A2SEA A/S Kongens Kvarter 51 7000 Fredericia Denmark T +45 75 92 82 11 a2sea@a2sea.com www.a2sea.com

Suppliers

MPI OFFSHORE Resolution House 18 Ellerbeck Court Stokesley Business Park Stokesley North Yorkshire TS9 5PT United Kingdom T +44 16 42 74 22 00 info@mpi-offshore.com www.mpi-offshore.com

Port & Logistics

SEAFOX P.O. Box 799 2130 AT Hoofddorp The Netherlands T +31 (0)23 55 41 31 3 info@seafox.com

TOS - ENERGY & MARITIME MANPOWER Waalhaven O.Z. 77 3087 BM Rotterdam The Netherlands T +31 10 43 66 39 3 info@tos.nl www.tos.nl

HOLLAND HYDRAULICS B.V. Binnenhavenstraat 14 7553 GJ Hengelo The Netherlands T +31 (0)74 291 78 48 info@holland-hydraulics.nl www.holland-hydraulics.nl

SCHOTTEL GMBH Mainzer Straße 99 56322 Spay Germany +49 / 26 28 / 61 - 0 +49 / 26 28 / 61 - 3 00 info@schottel.de

AYOP Het Havengebouw De Ruijterkade 7 (13e etage) 1013 AA Amsterdam The Netherlands T +31 (0) 20 62 73 70 6 info@ayop.com

Lifting Equipment

www.seajacks.com

PROTEA SP. Z O.O. Galaktyczna 30A 80-299 Gdansk Poland T +48 58 34 80 00 4 protea@protea.pl www.protea.pl

DAMEN SHIPYARDS GROUP P.O. Box 1 4200 AA Gorinchem The Netherlands T +31 18 36 39 91 1 info@damen.com www.damen.com

HUBEL MARINE B.V. Karel Doornmanweg 5 3115 JD Schiedam The Netherlands T +31 10 45 87 33 8 info@hubelmarine.com www.hubelmarine.com

Towers, Foundations, Substations

Personnel Services

IPS POWERFUL PEOPLE Rivium Boulevard 101 2909 LK Capelle aan den IJssel The Netherlands P +31 (0)88 447 94 85 M +31 (0)6 15 088 257 H.vanBurk@ipspowerfulpeople.com www.ipspowerfulpeople.com

Ship Builders

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ELA CONTAINER NEDERLAND B.V. Rouaanstraat 39 9723 CC Groningen The Netherlands T +31 50 31 82 24 7 info@ela-offshore.com www.ela-container.com

BLUE OFFSHORE Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 191 2593 BN The Hague The Netherlands T: +31 70 711 3774 info@blueoffshore.com www.blueoffshore.com

NV PORT OF DEN HELDER Postbus 4058 1780 HB Den Helder T +31 (0) 22 36 18 48 1 www.portofdenhelder.eu

EEW SPECIAL PIPE CONTRUCTIONS GMBH Am Eisenwerk 1 18147 Rostock Germany T + 49 38 18 17 16 0 info@eewspc.de www.eewspc.de

SMULDERS Hoge Mauw 200 2370 Arendonk – Belgium info@smuldersgroup.com www.smulders.com

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The three-day event features an exhibition where over 600 companies will showcase their products and services. The accompanying conference addresses current and future issues in the offshore industry, covering developments in oil & gas, offshore wind and marine energy. See you in Amsterdam!

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