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12 SEPTEMBER 2019 NEWS n ISSUE 415 RENEWS.BIZ THIS WEEK CfD3 bidders shrug off legal challenge UK officials are evaluating final bids Olsen push for 480MW from developers in the third Contracts for Difference allocation round. p2

Outage at Hornsea 1 sparks blame game mega-farms in Last month’s power outage at Orsted’s 1.2GW was caused by its Norwegian developer Fred heights of 200 metres and energy regulator NVE next to a similar timeline to turbines “incorrectly” shutting down as Olsen Renewables has taken rotor diameters of 140 to year if the developer secures Hoyanger, the source said, protection systems responded to a dip the wraps off early-stage 160 metres will be deployed, public support from the and plans are again based in the network’s voltage, according to a proposals to build a pair of depending on how many local Hoyanger and Gaular on 6MW-plus hardware with National Grid report. p3 up to 480MW post-subsidy landowners sign up to the municipalities, the source 200-metre tips and up to mega-farms in its home project, a source said. added. 160-metre rotors. Turbine service wrinkle stalls territory. Fred Olsen has so far Construction is earmarked The company currently installation at 30MW Taranto Consultations are underway penned agreements with for the mid-2020s. has two wind farms awaiting Renexia has pushed back offshore with local communities for around 30 landowners and Fred Olsen is also a licence approval decisions installation at its 30MW Taranto near- the Hoyanger project in the is holding discussions with progressing the Lauvdalsheia from NVE. The 100MW shore wind farm off the coast of Puglia Sognog Fjordane coastal several more. development in in the Laksefjorden and 100MW in south-east . p5 county in western Norway. A wind farm licence southern coastal county of Digermulen are both located Between 40 and 80 application could be Aust-. in the southern county of 6MW-plus turbines with tip submitted to Norwegian Project teams are working Telemark. OFFSHORE Surprise switch to Spain for Penguin wave project Finnish wave developer Wello Clean Energy from Ocean is to install its latest Penguin Waves-backed project, which Partners hoist ‘for sale’ sign device at Spanish marine test consisted of three Penguin at 396MW Merkur p7 centre Bimep after an EU- machines to be installed at backed project off EMEC by 2020, has ended. Mayflower pegs investment was terminated. The developer was granted levels to US bid power price The around 1MW Penguin €17m of Horizon 2020 p10 WEC2 unit will shortly be funding by the European Ambulance chasing offshore towed to Bimep’s grid- Commission in 2015 for the Costs squeeze driving culture of hair- connected site in Armintza array scheme. trigger damages claims across supply in the Basque region for The company installed a chain. deployment this autumn. prototype device at Billia Croo Two-page Focus starts on p11 The device is currently in March 2017 that sank in moored off Hatston on the March this year. Orkney mainland awaiting Paakkinen said Wello has NEWS transportation to Spain. secured funding from Basque Slo-mo grid offers pile on The machine was shipped energy agency EVE for the RESS stress in Ireland p4 to Scotland in July from the installation and operation of Netaman fabrication yard in the machine at Bimep. SSE takes second bite at the Estonian capital Tallinn for “This new project has the 100MW in Highlands p8 installation at the European potential to set in motion Vattenfall puts suppliers on Marine Energy Centre’s Billia more projects in and around CUTTING THE RIBBON: EDF Renewables has inaugurated notice over human rights Croo test site. the area with many parties its Contract for Difference-backed 177MW Dorenell wind p9 Wello chief executive Heikki already showing interest in farm near Huntly in Moray, north-east Scotland, featuring Berlin hinting at 5GW Paakkinen was unable to developing the site further,” 59 V105-3MW turbines with tip heights of 126 offshore target boost p15 state why the developer’s he claimed. metres Photo: EDF Renewables

Inspired by renewable energy. www.innogy.com 12 September 2019 NEWS 02 IN BRIEF scraps tip height ceiling CfD3 bidders shrug n UK merchant bank Close Brothers Denmark will this week lift a Leasing is planning to lend £600m blanket 150-metre turbine to onshore wind, solar and energy tip height restriction to storage projects in its home country off legal challenge allow the latest hardware to over the coming years as it looks to be deployed at upcoming UK officials are evaluating final double its existing loan book. onshore wind farms. bids from developers in the Habitats Regulations scare Business Minister Simon third Contracts for Difference n GE Renewable Energy is to supply Kollerup has issued a allocation round. 33 Cypress 5.3MW turbines with for 7GW Round 4 players statutory order changing the The bidding window closed 158-metre rotors for InfraVia Capital The failure of Orsted’s Race re-assessing the seabed Planning Act to give municipal on 29 August and insiders Partners’ 175MW Bjorkvattnet wind Bank extension proposal the Crown Estate will make authorities the right to said frenzied action was farm in . to win Habitats Regulations available in R4 to better permit wind farms without unaffected by a looming legal The US manufacturer also holds Assessment approval has understand the potential height limits in designated challenge against the auction. a 25-year full service agreement for sent “tremors” through the risks, said sources. development zones. Results are due on 20 the project, which is due to go live UK offshore wind sector. Some sites may now be Previously central September with massive next year. Fears are growing that too sensitive to develop, government had to approve implications for the supply much of the acreage in the they added. The Race Bank exceptions since the chain including turbine n Eolus Vind has completed upcoming 7GW Round 4 decision “means there restriction was introduced in companies GE Renewable construction of the 68.4MW leasing exercise will fail are fewer areas that are 2009. Energy, MHI Vestas and Nylandsbergen wind farm in to make it through HRA considered developable and . Sundsvall, central Sweden, for owner screening, which examines we are already operating in Thin pickings in More than 9.4GW of Aquila Capital. impacts on conservation a really constrained spatial offshore wind was eligible German auction sites. environment”, said one to take part in the round n Vestas is to supply 22 V150-4.3MW awarded just Developers have begun source. but bids are unlikely to have turbines to BayWa for the 95MW 176MW of new onshore wind covered the full capacity. be is targeting a project of Simec Atlantis Energy is Lyngsasa wind farm in Sweden. capacity to 21 projects in the Some developers are around 1.2GW from its up seeking a CfD for its 80MW country’s latest auction out of pursuing smaller projects to 1.5GW Seagreen site off MeyGen Phase 1C array in the n A majority of German citizens living the 500MW made available. below their consented Scotland. Pentland Firth off Scotland. near wind turbines have positive The average price was €62 nameplate ratings, it is All offshore bidders could Banks Renewables, which is attitudes towards the technology, per megawatt-hour, the same understood. credibly secure at least some pursuing a judicial review over according to a survey for Greenpeace as in the last tender in August. ScottishPower Renewables’ capacity in the round, market the exclusion of onshore wind Energy carried out by Kantar Four winning bids totalling latest plans for its up to sources added. from the auction, declined to 64.2MW were for projects in 1.4GW East Anglia 3 wind SSE, EDF Renewables and comment. n Deutsche Windtechnik has the North Rhine-Westphalia farm off east centre BayWa are among developers An initial hearing into the secured three-year operations and region with six more with a around a bid of 800MW that with a collective 1GW of developer’s request is to take maintenance contracts for five UK combined capacity of 30.2MW will export power via HVAC eligible remote islands wind place sometime in October wind farms operated by Innogy, in Schleswig-Holstein. wires, according to sources. bids in play. and, if accepted by a judge, a covering 40 turbines SSE Renewables is said to In addition, tidal developer full hearing will be scheduled. including MM70, MM82 and MM92 debt hope models Turbine manufacturer Suzlon still has options to secure n Terravent Deutschland has bought a debt reduction deal after the 10MW Windhubel wind farm rival Vestas pulled out of talks south of Mainz in Germany from Juwi. to invest in the company, Three Vestas V126 turbines were according to chief commercial commissioned in June 2019. officer Suman Nag. The Indian company is in talks with n WP Group and Green Wind are “multiple” potential investors, teaming up to provide European wind he claimed. farm operators with an expanded Suzlon has until the O&M service offering. year-end to come up with a plan to repay creditors and renews.biz bondholders, he added. Spanish contractor GES is to build the five wind farms that comprise the 231MW Valdejalon cluster in Aragon. Construction is expected to wrap up in the second quarter of Nearly 2,000 foundations and 21 substations. 2020. The 49MW El Cabezo, Technical know-how since 1965. Offices in: 45.6MW first phase and It is as simple as that. London Onshore Development 38MW second stage of Offshore Engineering Amsterdam Portillo 2, and the 49.4MW Construction Hamburg Virgen de Rodanas 1 and O&M Boston 49.4MW Rodanas 2 projects Contract Marine Seattle are owned by Copenhagen Permanent Crewing Orlando Infrastructure Partners. Photo: GES www.bladt.dk 12 September 2019 OFFSHORE 03 IN BRIEF Outage at Hornsea 1 n Marine contractor DeepOcean will split its UK operations in two this November as part of a drive to secure more offshore wind sparks blame game work. The Norwegian company will Last month’s power outage at “While it is accurate to say to suggest that Hornsea 1 create a cable installation division Orsted’s 1.2GW Hornsea 1 that there was an issue with would have responded to a headquartered in Darlington and wind farm off east England Hornsea 1 wind farm, the fault on the grid in the way separate company for seabed was caused by its turbines data suggest the turbines did that it evidently did,” said trenching and intervention based in “incorrectly” shutting down not trigger the outage.” The a company report on the Blyth. as protection systems manufacturer declined to incident. responded to a dip in the elaborate. The configuration of n The UK Planning Inspectorate POWER SOCKET: TenneT network’s voltage, according A source pointed to a Hornsea’s network was also has completed its examination of has commissioned the to a National Grid report. number of unresolved “a contributory factor as Vattenfall’s application to build the substation topside The 7MW Siemens Gamesa matters in the reports, it created a weak internal 1800MW Norfolk Vanguard wind farm for Orsted’s 752MW hardware at two of the including that a third phase of environment”, said National off east England. Officials have now Borssele 1&2 wind farm project’s three 400MW phases the project operated normally Grid. Orsted has since sent a recommendation on the project off the . The de-loaded on 9 August when at around 50MW during the reconfigured the system. to BEIS Secretary Andrea Leadsom. HSM-built unit was Hornsea’s output and voltage incident. The loss of 737MW A final consent ruling is due by 10 installed by Seaway 7 fluctuated significantly after Orsted said it believes of output from the in- December. earlier this summer and a circuit trip caused by a this was the first time a wind construction wind farm off will be powered up as lightning strike on the Eaton farm has lost power in this Yorkshire, which was capable n Belgium’s Elia will commission its the project’s 94 Siemens Socon-Wymondley line way. “Prior to the event, each of exporting up to 800MW new modular offshore grid MOG1 Gamesa 8MW turbines between Cambridgeshire and stage of Hornsea 1 had been on the day, was part of the this month when the connection to come online next year. Hertfordshire. successfully modelled and almost simultaneous loss of Otary’s 309MW Rentel wind farm goes Photo: TenneT “The settings physically tested in line with 1.7GW of generation on the live. The grid company will also soon were standard settings from all grid code requirements. UK grid following the lightning complete the tie-in to the 219MW n DEME Offshore jack-up Innovation the manufacturer. During “There had been no reason strike. Northwester 2 wind farm, which is has started installing 58 monopile the incident, the turbine scheduled to go online in the first foundations at the 487MW Seamade controllers reacted incorrectly French win first for Jan De Nul quarter of 2020. wind farm in the Belgian . due to an insufficiently damped Jan De Nul has broken into completed by the end of that Scaldis heavy-lift vessel Gulliver electrical resonance in the the French market with the year. has completed installation of the n EDF Energy is leading a team of sub-synchronous frequency award of a contract for the EDF is expected shortly to Bladt-supplied topside for the latter’s six developers in a project to tackle range,” said National Grid. transport and installation of reach financial close at the offshore substation. Semco delivered turbine blade erosion by sharing Software updates, which turbines at the 480MW Saint- €2bn project. Eiffage and electrical components. data on how various leading-edge had been agreed with Nazaire wind farm. DEME have meanwhile kicked protection systems perform in Siemens Gamesa before Parc du Banc de Guerande, off engineering studies for n Orsted is to merge the different conditions and geographies. the incident, took place a joint venture between monopiles at the site. Riffgrund West 1&2, rated at a on 10 August to address developer EDF Renewables total of 660MW, and 240MW OWP n German rail company Deutsche “performance improvement and Canada’s Enbridge, n is tendering West offshore wind farms into a Bahn is to source 25MW of electricity opportunities” including chose JDN subsidiary Sodraco for judicial and financial single development called Borkum from the 295MW Nordsee Ost wind “improved response to grid International for the work. consultancy services for its Riffgrund 3 and the 110MW and farm in the German North Sea under disturbances in weak grid Saint-Nazaire will feature upcoming offshore wind 132MW Gode Wind 3 and 4 projects a five-year power purchase agreement conditions”, added an Orsted 80 GE 6MW Haliade turbines. tenders. Interested bidders into one facility named Gode Wind 3. with RWE Supply and Trading and report on the issue. Installation is scheduled to have until 7 October to project owner Innogy. Siemens Gamesa said: start in spring 2022 and be submit offers. n Grid operator Energinet and the Danish Energy Agency will host a n DEME Offshore jack-up Apollo has meeting for potential bidders and installed 156 out of 309 pin piles at investors for the upcoming 800MW the 950MW Moray East wind farm off Thor offshore wind zone tender on 25 Scotland with the job expected to be November. completed by year-end.

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Industry transmission costs and Ireland. n Investor BlackRock is they could be shut out of the insiders said grid offers are location of the connection The partners are in the expected to seek back-dated first round of the country’s taking too long, causing point, which are essential early stages of development planning permission from new RESS supports auction anxiety over eligibility for pre- elements for putting together of a 12-turbine project at Waterford County Council for after Eirgrid issued a grid offer qualification for the first RESS a bid. Some companies may a site 13km south-west its 32MW Barranafaddock to just one of 16 large-scale auction due to open in the sit out the auction if they do of Letterkenny in County wind farm after An Bord projects. fourth quarter. not have the information Donegal. Pleanala refused to hear a Galetech’s 23MW Taghart Both planning permission required to calculate an A 45MW iteration of the case for substitute consent. wind farm in County Cavan is and grid access are required accurate price. project based on 15 3MW Nine of the project’s 12 GE the only proposal to receive to take part, although the final One senior industry figure units was consented in 2009 2.85MW turbines, operational a formal offer among the terms and conditions have yet called on officials in the but left unbuilt due to a lack since 2015, feature rotor projects initially awarded to be published. Energy Department to relax of grid availability. diameters of 103 metres, not grid rights in last summer’s Developers fear projects the grid requirement for the The utility and forestry the 90-metre configuration so-called ECP1 processing may require grid offers to first auction in light of the company have appointed granted permission. round, according to a system be issued, rather than just slow progress. operator update. secured, to qualify. Among the projects yet to Brakes come off at 35MW Pinewood The 15 remaining schemes The grid offer milestone secure grid offers are ABO A Galetech-led consortium refusal by Laois County totalling 500MW have yet also gives clarity on Wind’s 48MW Castlewaller in has secured planning Council. Tipperary, Bord na Mona’s permission for the 35MW The development group 100MW Cloncreen in Offaly Pinewood wind farm on the includes Belgian developer and the 48MW Carrowleagh- Laois-Kilkenny border in the Storm Windpower and GE. Kilbride in Mayo, which Irish midlands. The US manufacturer’s is being pursued by an National planning authority 3.2MW turbine with independent developer. An Bord Pleanala has given 103-metre rotor is “the most “It is certainly disappointing the go-ahead for 11 turbines suitable and efficient unit to see that only a single large with tip heights of 136.5 for this site”, according to wind farm has got a grid metres, overturning an earlier planning filings. offer so far under ECP1 and the next will not be until the IN BRIEF fourth quarter this year,” said Irish Wind Energy Association n Belgian developer Windvision is planning an up to 42MW extension at its head of policy Noel Cunniffe. 81MW Mons et Estinnes wind farm in the Walloon province of Hainaut. The Eirgrid said it is on schedule company has applied to build seven turbines at Estinnes, in the village of Vellereille- to make grid offers that it le-Sec, and at Mons, in the villages of Harmignies and Villers-Saint-Ghislain. has agreed with stakeholders including energy regulator n Elicio has embarked on the public consultation process and launched an CRU. environmental study into a potential seven-turbine, up to 39MW wind farm at The operator is aiming to Fontaine-Valmont in Hainaut. clear all offers by May 2020, added a spokesman. renews.biz 12 September 2019 OFFSHORE 05 Turbine service IN BRIEF n Marine contractor DeepOcean The National Renewable Energy are expected to be fully operational has begun laying the export cable Laboratory will assess the potential of within the next two months. for EDPR’s WindFloat Atlantic project shared mooring lines to reduce the wrinkle stalls 20km off the coast of Viana do Castelo need for anchors to outer turbines n Tekmar Energy has been chosen in Portugal. Ocean Yield vessel and so slash costs. by installation contractor Jan De Nul to Connector is carrying out the work for provide cable protection systems for installation at Portuguese grid operator REN. n More than 400 businesses have Taiwan Power Company’s 109.2MW Contractor Bourbon Offshore will joined New Jersey’s offshore wind Changhua wind farm off the coast shortly tow out the first WindFloat supply chain registry since it launched of the Asian island. The UK company platform and associated MHI Vestas less than six months ago. will provide its TekLink Generation 8 30MW Taranto 8.4MW turbines for installation. technology for array and export lines. Italian developer Renexia has produced five of the project’s n Turbine manufacturers and asset pushed back offshore 10 monopile foundations n Semco Maritime will shortly owners have formed a North America n Dutch foundations fabricator Sif installation at its 30MW featuring integrated transition formalise a partnership with a local committee under the auspices of the has opened a sales office in Japan. Taranto near-shore wind farm pieces at facilities in Bilbao, company to enhance provision of Global Wind Organisation to optimise The Tokyo base will be the first off the coast of Puglia in the northern Spain. marine engineering services for US supply chain and talent recruitment point of contact for offshore wind south-east of the country. The first units are expected offshore wind farms. The company from certified training providers. developers active in the region, the Work was due to begin to sail from the yard at the has been working with a US-based company said. this month but has been end of November. consultancy on the n Virginia utility Dominion Energy Singapore fabricator Sembcorp postponed until December MPI Offshore will mobilise project off Massachusetts and other is to reinvest money raised from rate Marine has been awarded a contract due to ongoing insolvency its jack-up Resolution in recent project bids. overcharges in its $300m, 12MW by Jan De Nul to fabricate 15 proceedings at turbine Rotterdam later this year “We are overlaying (power Coastal Virginia offshore wind pilot, jacket foundations for the 378MW supplier Senvion. for the job of installing transmission) experience with knowledge which is due to be installed starting Formosa 2 wind farm off Taiwan. Project sources said the foundations and turbines. about regulations, standards and in spring 2020, along with other German company has already Water depths are as little as permitting issues relevant to the US initiatives. n Dutch wind engineering manufactured the 10 3MW four metres in places and will market,” said offshore technology consultancy Pondera and South machines that will feature at call for a bespoke installation director Tommy Flindt. n First power has been delivered Korea’s Hanmi Global have been Taranto but the developer approach. from the 120MW Formosa 1 phase appointed joint owner’s engineer needs to lock in a new service Taranto must be online n The US National Offshore two wind farm off Taiwan. Six by the consortium developing the agreement for the hardware by July 2020 to qualify for a Wind Research and Development Siemens Gamesa 6MW turbines have 100MW Jeju Hanlim wind farm off the before installation can begin. €161.70 per megawatt-hour Consortium has selected a floating started generating with a total of coast of the Asian nation. Basque fabricator feed-in tariff and €40/MWh project for its first R&D technology 10 machines installed, according to Haizea Wind Group has grid connection premium. award, which is valued at $300,000. project partner Orsted. All 20 turbines renews.biz

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www.seawayheavylifting.com www.seawayoffshorecables.com 12 September 2019 EUROPEAN ONSHORE 06 21MW mission for Investment Engineering has be installed at the site near include construction of roads, Vestas gets selected 4.2MW Enercon Numansdorp, replacing foundations, crane stands and turbines to repower the the existing seven 500kW electrical infrastructure, along Westerse Polder wind NedWind NW41/50 units. with a new cable route from farm in Zuid Holland, the Work to remove the old the wind farm to the Stedin call at 44MW Netherlands. hardware began in July and substation in Klaaswaal. The developer said five the modern turbines are due The NedWind turbines went E-126 EP3 machines with to be installed in the second live in 1997 and the repowered 127-metre rotors and a hub quarter of 2020. project is due to be fully Greek farm height of 135 metres will Preparatory efforts will commissioned by end-2020. Greek industrial conglomerate The 11MW Diakoftis and 8MW Mytilineos has opted for Chelona both feature Enercon Vestas turbines to power its E-44 0.9MW turbines and are consented 44MW Makrynoros due o line this month. wind farm in the west of the A combination of two E-44 country. 0.9MW and four E-82 2.35MW Installation of V136-3.6MW machines will be deployed hardware at the site in at the 11MW Pounta project, Aitoloakarnania will start in which is scheduled to go live 2020. in October 2020. The company, the parent Mytilineos added 45MW to of Protergia, one of the its operating wind portfolio largest electricity retailers in last year with the completion Greece, won a 20-year feed-in of the 45MW Petalas premium contract for the development in western project in a renewable energy Greece, which uses Vestas auction. V100-2.0MW turbines. Mytilineos is expanding The company commissioned its wind pipeline in Greece the 15MW Pyrgos project in with three other projects the Evoia region earlier this currently under construction. year. Wind ball rolling in Balkans Serbian utility EPS has invited 2017. The wind farm will be expressions of interest the utility’s first, according to from contractors to build its local reports. Development | Construction | O&M | Asset Management consented 66MW Kostolac wind farm 90km east of n Montenegro state power Belgrade. Companies have utility ElektroprivredaCrne until 1 October to register. Gore (EPCG) shareholders The company is expecting have approved plans to build to issue a full tender before the company’s first wind farm. Providing unrivalled the year-end for the supply Construction of the 50MW and installation of 20 turbines Gvozd project in Niksic support services to clients with maximum hub heights of municipality, in a joint venture 117 metres with associated with ’s Ivicom Holding, infrastructure and a second is expected to start next year for over 35 years for civil engineering works. with commissioning in 2022. German development bank EPCG currently operates KfW signed an €80m loan 649MW of hydropower and As a multinational renewable company, our in-house capabilities and agreement for Kostolac in 225MW of generation. experienced team combined with a focus on optimisation mean we can support the full lifecycle of your project and ensure your assets IN BRIEF deliver more. n has secured its first deal to executive team to support managing supply N133 4.8MW-rated turbines director Hans-Dieter Kettwig in a We provide asset management and O&M services for 5 GW of clients’ from the Delta4000 series for Muirhall range of areas including technology Energy’s 46MW Crossdykes wind farm development and finances. renewable projects across the globe. in Scotland. n Nordex has commissioned a n Vestas is to supply V150-4.2MW N149/4.0-4.5 turbine for VSB at Read more on our website turbines totalling 60MW to the Pustleben in the region of Kropuln and Storbacken wind farms Germany. in Finland for OX2 projects backed by Infracapital. Both projects will be built n Vestas has received an order from on a merchant basis and are due to go Notus Energy Plan for two V150- online in 2021. 5.6MW turbines for the Beesenberg 2 wind farm in , its first Wind Solar Storage T&D n Enercon is setting up a four-man order for EnVentus units in Germany.

renews.biz 12 September 2019 OFFSHORE 07 Partners hoist ‘for sale’ EnBW and Orsted taking grid fast lane off Germany sign at 396MW Merkur Developers EnBW and Orsted wind Holger Grubel. Orsted’s have agreed a deal with wind farms are expected Shareholders in the 396MW on 25% and Coriolis holding other players declined to transmission system operator online in 2024 with He Dreiht Merkur wind farm off 12.5% are also looking to sell, comment on any sales. TenneT to connect upcoming following in 2025. They will Germany are looking to sell sources said. wind farms in the German connect to TenneT’s DolWin5 the 66-turbine North Sea “There is no guarantee n Half-year DEME Group North Sea directly to a single and BorWin5 grid hubs. project. there will be a transaction but turnover hit €1.3bn, up €20m offshore converter platform. DEME parent company we are checking the market on the 2018 period, with DEME The strategy will eliminate n DNV GL this week signed Ackermans & van Haaren to see if there is any interest Offshore accounting for the need to construct individual a four-year contract with listed the Belgian contractor’s and a decent valuation of €580m of that figure. offshore substations for each TenneT to provide certification 12.5% stake as ‘for sale’ in its the asset,” the Ackermans The offshore division development. for the company’s new HVDC first-half results. spokesperson said. booked a €10.8m provisional Orsted’s 900MW Borkum grid hubs, including DolWin5. A divestment process The final GE Haliade 6MW loss in the half on O&M Riffgrund West 3 and EnBW’s has already started, a turbine was installed at the contracts with Senvion planned He Dreiht in Cluster n UK consultancy Intertek spokesperson told renews. site in September 2018. The covering turbines installed 7, both north of Borkum, will will undertake a permitting Fellow stakeholders project is “of less interest to at projects off Belgium and tie in via 66kV cables. and planning study for the Partners Group with 50%, DEME as a contractor” now it Germany. The system, which also North Sea Power Hub project InfraRed Capital Partners is complete, he added. The The company said it will eliminates the need for 155kV being developed by TenneT, take steps to recover some connector cables, is expected Energinet, Gasunie and the Ambau opens door to Europe or all of the loss from the to lead to “enormous cost Port of Rotterdam. Chinese turbine tower may be sealed in November. manufacturer, which is to be reductions”, said TenneT manufacturer Titan Wind Monopiles and transition broken up and sold. managing director Tim n Orsted has opened an Energy is shooting for a slice pieces will be fabricated at Meyerjurgens. offshore construction base of the European offshore Ambau’s facility at Cuxhaven n UK electricity regulator The ‘direct to converter’ for its 1.4GW Hornsea 2 wind foundations business following with 36 out of the company’s Ofgem has chosen system benefits all farm off Yorkshire inside its acquisition of troubled former 86-strong payroll Transmission Capital Partners stakeholders but will require a former police station at German fabricator Ambau. to be employed in the new as the preferred bidder to close co-ordination through Humberside Airport. Titan Europe president business. own and operate the high- all phases of the project “to The base will house up Michael Buus Neilsen said the Ambau was put up for sale voltage grid link for Eon’s manage the operational risks”, to 30 people when offshore company is already working after entering administration 400MW said EnBW head of portfolio building work gets underway on one potential order, which earlier this year. off Sussex, east England. development for offshore in 2020.

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www.enercon.de 12 September 2019 EUROPEAN ONSHORE 08 nets 90MW SSE takes second bite Scottish consents one-two Germany’s Energiekontor has local authority signed off on won approval to build two Nordex candidate hardware at 100MW in Highlands wind farms with a combined for the site in Corrie Common SSE Renewables is having consideration concerns post-subsidy project using capacity of up to 91.2MW on the outskirts of Lockerbie. another go at developing raised by Edinburgh about larger machines than the in Dumfries and Galloway, The German turbine the Glencassley wind farm in the proximity of turbines to 3MW units proposed in its south-west Scotland. manufacturer’s N133/4.8 Sutherland in the Highlands. the Assynt Coigach National 2012 application. The Scottish government machine is a suitable fit for The Scottish government Scenic Area. Overall capacity at the site granted consent for the up both Glenshimmeroch and refused the developer’s The new layout is focused near Larig is expected to be to 48MW Glenshimmeroch Little Hartfell, said sources. original 23-turbine proposal on an area to the southern around 100MW depending on appeal after the local Construction of the post- with 126.5-metre tips on end of the previous site, on final turbine choice. If authority failed to determine subsidy wind farms could appeal in 2015 due to the closer to SSE’s operational consented, construction is Energiekontor’s July 2018 start next year. perceived impact on wild land. 26.65MW Achany and Eon’s expected to take 18 months. application. Elsewhere in Dumfries and The Perth company online Rosehall 24.7MW wind The original application The project near St Johns Galloway, Statkraft has been has now filed scoping farms. was refused at the same Town of Dalry will feature 10 given a green light to build documents with ministers SSE has yet to identify time as Scottish ministers turbines with tip heights of its Twentyshilling wind farm for a new 26-turbine project a candidate turbine for pulled the plug on German 149.9 metres. near Sanqhuar using taller with tip heights of “at least Glencassley but said developer WKN’s plans for the Approval is also in hand turbines. 150 metres”. SSE said the technology improvements 22-turbine Sallachy wind farm for the up to 43.2MW Little The Norwegian developer latest design takes into have allowed it to pursue a next door to Glencassley. Hartfell wind farm, which will said 4MW-class hardware is employ nine turbines with now in play at the around ERG getting under skin IN BRIEF up to 160-metre tips. The 38MW project. n A Scottish court is expected to Eon looking to go long at Lorg at 82MW Sandy Knowe hold a hearing early next month Eon wants to boost capacity project with 3.6MW turbines, Italian developer ERG has English company Burcote into Community Windpower’s at its consented Lorg wind has also proposed increasing started ground investigations Wind. A turbine supply legal challenge over a stop order farm in southern Scotland the operational life of the for its up to 81.6MW Sandy agreement and balance- on construction at its Contract for by a third to 43.2MW by wind farm from the current Knowe wind farm in southern of-plant contract for Sandy Difference-backed 30MW Sneddon employing taller turbines at 25 years to up to 30 years. Scotland with the work due to Knowe will be finalised wind farm in East Ayrshire. the nine-unit site. wrap up this year. next year, said an ERG The Court of Session process The German developer n Brookfield is eyeing larger Construction of the spokeswoman. hearing in Edinburgh is expected to has applied to Dumfries and turbines for its consented 24-turbine post-subsidy lay down a timetable for a potential Galloway Council to increase 22.5MW Polquhairn wind farm project near Upper Nithsdale n English developer Clean judicial review by the second week of the permitted height of six near Sinclairston in south- in Dumfries and Galloway is Earth Energy has taken the October. machines from 130 metres to west Scotland. anticipated next year. wraps off plans to build the CWP and the landowner launched the same 149.9-metre limit as The Canadian developer ERG is awaiting a decision 20MW Back Hareshaw wind the challenge after the Scottish the other three units. has filed scoping documents from Scottish ministers on its farm near Strathaven in government upheld an enforcement The company has also with East Ayrshire Council on proposals to boost capacity central Scotland. notice issued by East Ayrshire Council applied for an increase in the raising tip heights at the nine- from the consented 48MW Scoping documents to halt work on the project. maximum permitted rotor turbine project from 100 to to 81.6MW while keeping tip have been filed with South diameter of all nine turbines 126.5 metres. heights unchanged at 125 Lanarkshire Council proposing n A public inquiry into the rejection from 112 to 133 metres. The larger hardware would metres. five turbines with 150-metre of Norwegian developer Fred Olsen Eon has asked the local boost capacity to around The developer wants tips. Renewables’ up to 30MW Paul’s Hill 2 authority to sign off on 32MW and Brookfield intends Holyrood to sign off on Clean Earth has also wind farm in Scotland has kicked off Nordex N133/4.8 hardware to file a formal application this Siemens Gamesa 3.4MW submitted early-stage in Moray. Hearings are due to wrap at the post-subsidy project year, said a spokeswoman. candidate machines with a proposals to build a pair of up in November with a decision by located between Sanquhar The developer is also rotor diameter of 101 metres 150-metre turbines near Scottish ministers expected next year. and Carsphairn. seeking to vary the permitted for the wind farm, which is Tacher in Caithness in the Eon, which won consent operational life of Polquhairn being co-developed with Scottish Highlands. renews.biz in July for Lorg as a 32.4MW from 25 to 30 years.

Our modular, flexible, innovative and certified Electrical Offshore Substation 12 September 2019 NEWS 09 ‘Unique opportunity for renewables to clean up minerals sourcing’ Renewables players have yet be asking more questions. The report last week stating that rights problems. A single granted that our urgently- to take substantive action to organisation has launched a 86% of companies mining 3MW wind turbine contains needed transition to a low tackle human rights issues tracker containing allegations for minerals used in the approximately 4.7 tonnes of carbon economy must be fair in the mineral supply chain, of human rights abuses renewables sector have been the metal and new research as well as fast,” said Horvath. according to an expert. recorded between 2010 and linked to alleged human rights from Wood Mackenzie, also The renewables sector Eniko Horvath, head May 2019 to help energy abuses since 2010. published last week, predicts has a unique opportunity to researcher at the UK-based companies and investors The study looked at copper, 5.5 million tonnes will be improve practice in mineral campaign group Business improve decision-making on manganese, nickel and zinc needed for onshore and supply chains by introducing and Human Rights Resource sourcing of minerals. mining and found copper offshore wind by 2028. rigorous human rights due Centre, said investors should The centre published a had the most severe human “We must not take for diligence, she added. Vattenfall’s suppliers on Lifting notice over Offshore Wind human rights Vattenfall has taken action according to Ramskold. in its supply chain following The company believes it will internal research that ultimately benefit from the identified a severe risk of fair treatment of workers by human rights issues, writes its suppliers. “Those workers Catherine Early. will produce high-quality Blue Tern The utility has discontinued goods with fewer accidents, contracts with some suppliers interruptions, and more to its renewables operations innovation,” she added. in the past year following Vattenfall recently launched Suited for the deepest waters audits on working conditions its first human rights policy and conversations with local in an effort to place greater and most challenging offshore communities in production emphasis on the issue for areas. staff and suppliers. wind projects. “Anything that involves The initiative will cover the mining is of course a high-risk Swedish utility’s operations area and if you then add that and that of its supply chain, the mining is taking place in and will target discrimination a high-risk country, the risks as well as child, forced and increase even more,” said trafficked labour. vice president of corporate The policy aims to provide sustainability Annika safe and healthy working Ramskold (pictured). conditions, fair wages The rejected suppliers are and support community “very big engagement. on the “We do not have that many global policies within the company market”, so to raise this to a policy level she added. is a very clear sign that this Months matters enormously,” said after the Ramskold. contracts The company has mapped were cancelled the companies its human rights risks and returned and said they would identified its renewables change their practices. supply chain as the most “You have to be firm, severe, she said. not only in introducing the requirements but then acting n Orsted, Element Power according to them,” she said. and ITM Power have won “We have managed to get UK government funding via a number of the suppliers to the BEIS Hydrogen Supply change the way they set up Competition for the Gigastack contracts with their workers, feasibility study to investigate windcarrier.com the way they treat them and the potential delivery of green the way they house them,” low-cost hydrogen. 12 September 2019 OFFSHORE 10 IN BRIEF Mayflower pegs investment n SMRU Consulting will start monitoring the presence of North Atlantic right whales within construction mitigation zones for levels to US bid power price monopile foundations next month. US developer published to date in New payments over the next The three-year US Department of has given Massachusetts Jersey and Rhode Island, 12 years to support tower Energy-funded study will inform electric utilities a range of and Vineyard Wind’s offer fabrication. the development of technologies to local supply chain investment in an earlier Massachusetts Hartnett said the New mitigate impacts on wildlife, including options to consider as part of solicitation. Bedford terminal is “a very key cetaceans, birds and bats. its bid into the state’s recent An ‘infrastructure and port”. “We have an option with offshore wind solicitation. innovation’ proposal Massachusetts Clean Energy n The New York State Energy In addition to a required adds strategic near-term Center for using that port for Research and Development Authority bid for a 408MW project, the investments in ports, start- construction.” is hosting a series of open house Shell-EDPR joint venture has ups and local jobs. The developer’s bid events this month to discuss the provided three outlines for a A ‘Massachusetts proposals cover long-term state’s offshore awards. NYSERDA possible 804MW iteration. manufacturing’ proposal investments in the port for HIGH POINT: Massachusetts staff will present details of ’s “By providing proposals for builds up further with an operations and maintenance Maritime Academy on 816MW and Bay State the 804MW project with three investment alongside a local facilities upgrades in addition Cape Cod has completed a Wind’s 880MW Sunrise projects. levels of investment, there partner in a tower fabrication to short-term commitments. tower for training workers is real transparency in the facility in the state, which In the event of a contract to safely board and return n Atlas Professionals will open a pricing of offshore wind,” said would serve domestic and award, Mayflower will work from offshore turbines US office in Boston, Massachusetts Mayflower Wind president international markets. with DEME Group to train (above). The academy is also on 1 October to provide staff to the John Hartnett. The latter two options Massachusetts staff on in the process of modifying renewables industry. “The utilities get to select “reflect an increase on the offshore wind farms in a Carolina Skiff boat so it the one most suited to the (power) price but it is not Europe. can be operated as a crew n Engineering consultancy WSP state’s priorities.” a significant increase”, said Hartnett said “we plan to transfer vessel. The unit has entered into a definitive merger A ‘low price energy’ Hartnett. The tower plant work with DEME and local should be ready in the next agreement ahead of its proposed proposal includes a baseline would come online in late colleges and other labour few weeks. RelyOn Nutec, acquisition of New York-based of investment for research, 2021 or early 2022 to supply groups to further develop one of the largest providers environmental specialist Ecology and workforce training and Mayflower’s project. the specifics of the training of Global Wind Organisation Environment Inc. economic development, The ‘manufacturing’ option programme” with a view to courses, has been hired to along with the lowest price also adds investment during launching programmes in set the MMA’s offshore wind renews.biz bid compared with those 2020-23 as well as lease 2020. curriculum. Photo: Anna Woringer/MMA 12 September 2019 FOCUS 11 Ambulance chasing offshore ggressive efforts to Costs squeeze drive down offshore Awind costs are leading driving culture to the emergence of a compensation culture that is of hair-trigger forcing companies to rethink their involvement in the damages claims sector. The number of claims being across supply made by project owners against suppliers and by chain, writes contractors against sub- contractors has increased Patrick Browne substantially in recent years, according to market sources, hurting relationships throughout the industry. Damages are commonly being sought over alleged late delivery of work scopes, defective components, poor workmanship and installation issues such as failed target burial depth for cables, it is understood. Engineering, procurement, HEADS YOU LOSE: Danish contractor MT Hojgaard found itself on the wrong end of a construction and installation damages case over the 174MW off Scotland despite completing company Boskalis last month work to industry standards of the time Photo: Eon said it is allocating more than €100m to cover contract changed attitude” among contracting communities processes arising,” said Louise provisions this year. clients “under pressure agreed with Berdowski’s Shiels (pictured left), a partner Chief executive Peter from the disappearance of assessment of the situation. at Scottish law firm Brodies Berdowski added there has subsidies” that “has resulted “The pressure caused by LLP. renews.biz recently been a “drastically in a considerably more tense zero or Low prices have meant situation” and “lengthy claim minimal contractors are unable to procedures”. subsidies invest the capital required to Sector-specific standardised Few claims cases make has resulted deliver projects to standard, it into the limelight as most in tight according to Energi Coast contracts ‘could slow claims’ are either settled or resolved margins and chairman James Ritchie. tandardised contracts issues difficult to allocate. “A behind closed doors in parties on Harsher terms and Scould reduce the lack of clarity in the wording arbitration. all sides are looking to reduce conditions are number of claims and of these modified standard However, senior figures cost. This has led to more being written prevent smaller supply chain contracts has historically in the legal, insurance and formal dispute resolution into contracts 12 companies falling foul of calls made arbitrating dispute for damages, according to cases difficult,” said Rebecca industry figures. Williams of Watson Farley Offshore wind companies and Williams. currently use off-the-peg The International contracts drawn up by Federation of Consulting international trade bodies for Engineers is currently use in the wider construction working on a standardised industry. contract specifically for the The lack of a sector- offshore wind sector, she specific set of contracts is added. notable given the greater Energi Coast’s James risk level and unpredictable Richie called on the supply nature of offshore wind chain to pull together to help projects, said Louise Shiels of inform the development of Brodies LLP. the terms for any specific The way standard contract for the sector. construction contracts “The industry needs to are currently modified decide what it is reasonably and altered to suit the expecting from each sector, with ad-hoc clauses member of the supply added or amended during chain to proportion risk negotiations, ultimately and responsibility fairly and makes responsibility for equitably,” he said. n 12 September 2019 FOCUS 12

as developers €100,000 a day, 10 days split in litigation currently 11 and sub- late can be the difference Crossed wires on the grid between legacy issues at contractors between finishing a project in operational wind farm and he UK’s offshore agree to compensate try to pass risk down the the black or red.” disputes occurring during transmission operator transmission owners for supply chain, added Ritchie, The legal precedent set T construction. regime is ripe for disputes future repair costs,” said who is also chief executive in the case of MT Hojgaard The most common claims due to the misalignment Rebecca Williams of Watson of cable protection company versus Eon has placed a big concern faults in cables of commercial interests Farley and Williams. Tekmar. burden on followed by between developers and OFTOs have good “The mood on projects has contractors, foundations, OFTOs, said legal experts. leverage to secure highly become more adversarial and said Rebecca according to Developers are forced to favourable agreements as less co-operative, and claims Williams Robert Bates sell assets for a fixed price developers require cables have become endemic in the (left), a (left), an at set dates that often do and substations to be online industry,” he said. partner at underwriter not allow time for seabed in order to earn revenue, Liquidated damages, a law firm at insurance surveys and remedial she added. OFTOs are paid clause in contracts to ensure Watson Farley & Williams. outfit GCube. “Cables and works on export cables a fixed rate by Ofgem for that work is done by a certain The Danish company foundations are inherently and substations to be fully operating transmission time, are being enforced was found liable by the UK challenging to install but completed, which they then assets. more frequently to recover Supreme Court in 2017 for there are a number of have to pay for anyway. “Developers are hamstrung. losses during construction, remedial costs of €26.25m for common themes across “This results in developers It is a fundamental problem said market sources, with faulty grouting connections claims including contractor entering into highly complex of the regulatory regime companies typically fined at on foundations at the error, inadequate training, indemnification regimes with in the UK and one that is least 0.1% of total contract 174MW Robin Rigg wind farm and a lack of communication OFTOs whereby developers difficult to navigate.”n value for each day late. off Scotland, even though between suppliers and In some cases contractors the work was completed contractors,” he said. are penalised for delays even according to industry negatively affecting smaller resources required to cover Bates warned that should though developers have been standards at the time. companies that cannot bear legal and insurance costs. the volume of claims continue late handing over key data Williams also pointed out losses. Insurance in the form of to increase there may not be needed to complete work large EPCI bundles are a “As soon as anybody performance bonds starts at enough insurers willing to scopes, claimed sources. hotbed for claims. Turnkey makes a claim everybody gets around 20% of the value of a cover companies. “If you are not careful players typically share risk hit. There are companies that contract and securing payouts “Persistent claims could companies will even try to through so-called back-to- have either left the sector or in the event of a claim is lead to premiums increasing, push weather risk onto you back contracts, which means gone bankrupt because of difficult. “If you burn your restrictions being placed on these days,” one said. that when claims are made the changing nature of the insurers then life is going to coverage, and even some “If you are working at a sub-contractors are forced to industry,” said Ritchie. become really expensive for insurers pulling out of the profit margin of below 10% shoulder some of the costs, Contractors are also you,” said a source. offshore wind sector if it is not and have vessel costs of she said. This process is struggling to invest the Williams said there is a 50-50 profitable,” he said.n 12 September 2019 EUROPEAN ONSHORE 13 IN BRIEF Tender call for Grid constraint alarm RESS overseers n Irish consultancy Brightwind has Irish energy regulator CRU is created an open-source library of to appoint two independent bells ringing in Ireland resource assessment data to support observers to oversee the first project final investment decisions. auction under new support The Irish wind industry is recorded, according to Eirgrid reduce the volume of wind The offering will simplify energy scheme RESS. calling for grid operators to data, since 2011. generation on the system to yield predictions, which are currently Procurement has been be given more resources Dispatch down was worst in ensure grid stability. done separately by companies using launched for a market auditor after system operator Eirgrid the north-west at 9.5% in the Irish Wind Energy Association their own in-house data tools, said and auction monitor, which revealed new figures showing latest half with the south-west chief executive David Brightwind. will serve one-year terms with turbine constraints running at at 8.9%. The south-east was Connolly said the figures options to extend by up to a record rate. least affected on 4.2%. are “disappointing”. “Every n Renewables provided 44% two years. First-half ‘dispatch down’, In March and April, increase means revenue of Northern Ireland’s electricity The auction monitor will the curtailment of output dispatch down hit 9.2% and lost by wind farm operators consumption in the 12 months to June oversee how transmission from wind farms, was 6.7% 9%, respectively, among the and more carbon dioxide 2019, an all-time record for the six system operator Eirgrid, which in the Republic, up from 5% highest monthly totals ever emissions on the system.” counties. Onshore wind supplied 85% will run the rounds, carries for full-year 2018 and 3.7% seen. Eirgrid and distribution of the total. out its duties, including the in 2017. Dispatch down occurs system operator ESB Networks bidder qualification process. The figures are the highest when the system operators are “doing all they can to n Vestas is to sell 80% of its shares in A final report must be filed improve the situation” but subsidiaries owning the Pantelimon, within two days of provisional RES maps out 80MW in North “must get the resources they Pegasus and Apollo wind farms in auction results, outlining RES is the early stages of Department for Infrastructure need”, he added. “We hope Romania to an undisclosed buyer any non-compliance or developing two new subsidy- on the cards for later this year, the (energy regulator) CRU will for €136m. Closure of the deal is irregularities with RESS rules. free wind farms in Northern said UK and Ireland head of ensure this when approving expected within eight to 10 weeks. The auditor will provide Ireland. wind projects Fraser Merry. its budget for the next five “independent assurance to Environmental surveys The developer has also years early in 2020.” n Enel Green Power has started the market” on the operation are underway to inform final filed to build the 22MW He added: “In the coming building the 39MW Campoliva 2 of the auction and must layout and design of the Magheramore wind farm 4km years we are going to need to and 35MW Primoral wind farms in report to the CRU and the 14-turbine, 59MW Ballygilbert south of Dungiven in Derry, see the transmission system the Zaragoza region of Spain. Both Irish Energy Department at project 3km north-west of which also comprises an strengthened and expanded projects, featuring 15 2.6MW and 10 “reasonable intervals”. Carncastle in Antrim. element. so we can maximise the 3.4MW turbines, respectively, are due Qualification for the first A public exhibition will Consent for six turbines amount of power our wind online this year. auction is due to open this year be held this month with a with 150-metre tip heights is farms can produce and get it but the round is not expected planning application to the being sought. to where it is needed.” renews.biz to take place until 2020.

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Cork | Dublin | Carlow Arklow Bank Offshore Wind Since 2004 www.fehilytimoney.ie EIS and Planning Consents Managed by Fehily Timoney 12 September 2019 EUROPEAN ONSHORE 14 Consenting 100MW permitting finish line in sight for pipeline at Epuron French duo Developers Elements and Epuron is lining up to file in late October for the planned around seven 3MW Elicio are looking to wrap up construction applications 18MW Saint-Loup-sur-Cher turbines with a maximum tip permitting this year for a pair for 100MW of French wind wind farm in the central height of 165 metres with of French wind farms. farms before the year-end, department of Loir-et-Cher. commissioning set for 2023. Public consultations will kicking off this month with Six up to 165-metre-tall The 18MW Boules finish on 27 September for the three-turbine Porspoder machines could go live in wind farm in the western Montpellier-based Elements’ in the western department of 2021 or 2022. department of Vendee will up to 22MW Passa project in Finistere. Further applications will employ six turbines and go the southern department of The subsidiary of Italian follow, including for the live in 2024. Pyrenees-Orientales. developer ERG is hoping to 13.5MW Saint-Vincent-La- Epuron is aiming to Six 2.4MW to 3.6MW obtain approval in late 2020 Chatre site in the eastern repower the 12MW SBEA turbines with a maximum or early 2021 for the up to department of Deux-Sevres, project in the western tip height of 152 metres are 12MW project, which will which will employ three department of Loire- scheduled to go online next employ Vestas or Nordex N149/4500 turbines and is Atlantique. The site, owned by GROWTH SPURT: Epuron year. turbines with tip heights of scheduled to go live by 2024. UK fund Impax, has been in commissioned the 17.6MW Belgium’s Elicio is on a 140 metres. Commissioning is The 21MW La Perche operation for 10 years. Torfou wind farm last slightly slower schedule at its planned for 2024 at the latest. wind farm in the central Five N80/2500 turbines will December Photo: Epuron/ERG 12MW Hauts de Saints Aubins Paperwork will be filed department of Cher is be replaced by 180-metre- wind farm in the northern tall turbines to lift overall turbines with tips of up to department of Somme with capacity to up to 18MW. 200 metres. Permitting could public consultations to close Commissioning is planned for be completed early next year in early October. 2024. with commissioning in 2022. The project, which will The company also has The 15MW La Boeme farm feature four 3MW turbines a further 75MW-plus in its in the western Charente with a tip height of up to 150 pipeline of mature projects department is planned to metres, will be commissioned and is waiting for consents to feature five 150-metre-tall in 2021 at the earliest. land for two wind farms. turbines with commissioning Elicio recently raised The 45MW Terre et Vents scheduled for 2023. more than €50,000 in a de Ravieres in the north- Epuron has an additional crowdfunding campaign western department of Yonne 500MW of projects in earlier to part-finance the will use 10 Vestas or Nordex stages of development. development. 180MW sale GLOBAL NEWS IN BRIEF ends Polish n Enel Green Power has secured a ‘final notice to proceed’ for rights to develop an unnamed operations in 2020. legal battle 190MW wind farm in ’s latest Polish energy group Tauron auction with operations expected to n The US Department of has almost doubled its start in 2021. Energy has awarded funding to wind portfolio following the renewable consultancy Natural acquisition of five operational n Tilt Renewables has taken a Power to develop and test a smart farms in the north of the final investment decision to build curtailment system to protect bats country from in.ventus. the 133MW Waipipi wind farm in while minimising power loss at The €137m deal brings to New Zealand featuring 31 Siemens wind farms. an end a long-running legal Gamesa 4.3MW turbines. dispute between the two n has acquired the companies. n Apex Clean Energy is to sell a 231MW Changing Winds project in The 32MW Sniatowo, 34MW 200MW portion of the 525MW Texas from Tri Global Energy and Mogilno, 32MW Inowroclaw, Aviator Wind project in Texas local community owners. 34MW Dobrzyn and 48MWE to Facebook when commercial Goldap projects all employ operations start next year. n Pattern Development has Vestas V90 turbines and were completed construction and started commissioned by in.ventus n GES of Spain has won a contract operations at the 220MW Grady between 2009 and 2011. to install 36 Envision 2.5MW wind farm in New Mexico, which Tauron said the agreement turbines at an unnamed 90MW features 84 Siemens Gamesa ends actions brought by wind farm in the Yucatan region of 2.625MW turbines. in.ventus and its financial Mexico. backer, Hamburg Commercial n US wind farm operator Longroad Bank, against Tauron n Orsted’s US onshore wind arm Energy has secured a long-term subsidiaries following Lincoln Clean Energy will start asset management contract from termination of long-term building the 230MW Plum Creek DIF Capital Partners covering the contracts to purchase green project in Nebraska after receiving 183MW IWP project in Idaho. certificates from the wind farms. renews.biz 12 September 2019 NEWS 15 GERMAN RENEWABLES CRISIS SUMMIT Berlin hinting at 5GW offshore target boost The German offshore wind industry has welcomed the firm plan ahead of a high-level industry has called on Berlin minister’s signal. government ‘Climate Cabinet’ LISTENING MODE: Federal Energy Minister Peter Altmaier to introduce an expanded Matthias Zelinger, meeting scheduled for 20 (left) with Minister of Economic Affairs Olaf sector target for 2030 after managing director of trade September. Lies after the crisis talks with state government officials Energy Minister Peter Altmaier group VDMA Power Systems, The German Offshore Wind and wind sector representatives last week Photo: BMWi/Susanne Eriksson signalled his backing for up to described the meeting as a Energy Foundation said: “The 5GW of additional capacity. “constructive start” although minister said he can imagine target in the second half of in the German North and Altmaier indicated he is “a concrete figure remains increasing the 15GW target the 2020s. We believe there Baltic seas between 2019 and mulling a 20GW goal, up from unclear”. to 20GW for 2030 but it is not is enough time to resolve any 2022. the existing 15GW, after a “We now need a yet law. We need to see real issues,” said BWO. renewables crisis summit in catalogue of measures for action.” n Northland Power has the capital last week. climate protection and for Offshore wind group BWO n Fugro is to carry out completed installing 31 MHI Developers said they are strengthening the industry.” welcomed the minister’s geotechnical investigations Vestas turbines on monopile increasingly confident officials Executives are expecting support but said it wants a for Federal Maritime and foundations at the 269MW will lift the cap and the wider the government to issue a stakeholder meeting to be Hydrographic Agency BSH at Deutsche Bucht wind farm in held without delay. potential offshore wind sites the German North Sea. Permitting delays top target “Through such a meeting we are optimistic that a for new onshore action plan consensus can be reached to The German government also with opposition from citizen increase Germany´s offshore pledged to address the crisis groups, strict environmental wind expansion target from in the onshore wind sector regulations and restrictive 15GW to 20GW in 2030,” said following the summit. state policies delaying a spokesman. Just 300MW went online in consents by up to four years. “We hope that the new the first half of this year with Berlin is mulling a number climate legislation including installations unlikely to top of “quick fixes”, added BWE, the offshore wind increase will 1.5GW for the full 12 months including a relaxation of come into effect late this year compared with annual build exclusion zones around or at the beginning of 2020 rates of 4.3GW-plus in 2015-17. radar stations from 15km to at the latest; the earlier, the Energy Minister Peter between 10km and 5km. The better.” Altmaier said an action plan plan will also put pressure on Public opposition to new will be put together shortly states to implement clear high voltage power lines was focused on accelerated renewables targets and identify reportedly one potential permitting, according to areas for wind development. sticking point flagged by wind association BWE. More The document could be Altmaier. than 11GW of projects are launched on 20 September at “We are speaking about currently stuck in planning the ‘Climate Cabinet’ meeting. an increase of the offshore

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Specific policies on +44 (0)1962 890 449 n [email protected] The recently published renews European Onshore routes to market, five-year auction timetables and Editor Stephen Dunne 2019 report details stuttering progress in virtually budgets - all of which have to be included under EU +353 87 760 9207 n [email protected] all the main markets of Germany, Spain, France, the rules – are required to forge a future for the sector. UK, the Netherlands and Belgium while emerging European Commission President-elect Ursula von Production editor Richard Crockett areas such as eastern Europe are proving slow to der Leyen has committed to making climate change n [email protected] get off the ground. action central to the next commission’s work. Senior correspondent Tim Probert Capitals must fully live up to their obligations She does not have an easy task with two reports +44 (0)1892 534 478 n [email protected] under Brussels’ Clean Energy Package. Among other painting a contrasting view this week. Senior news correspondent Patrick Browne measures, the initiative mandates that countries One shows that five member states are still +44 (0)7562 465668 n [email protected] have to set up one-stop shops to deal with planning new fossil fuel subsidies out to 2030 while European offshore wind correspondent renewables project consenting within three years of another calculates that the global energy transition Girija Shettar first applications, a veritable revolution compared requires a fivefold increase in wind, as well as a 10- with existing permitting waits. This one action could fold jump in solar, to meet Paris commitments. +44 (0)7765 081076 n [email protected] clear consenting logjams and simplify procedures Von der Leyen has the chance to crack the whip. France Lisa Louis for developers in several countries. The onshore wind industry, which has been the star +33 676 930 784 n [email protected] Decisions in repowering cases would have to be pupil of existing efforts to decarbonise the power Netherlands, Belgium Sian Crampsie made within one year, which will be vital to ensure system, now needs help. +44 (0)7711 007277 n [email protected] Offshore ball in Dublin’s court US Sara Verbruggen The Irish Wind Energy Association is rightly and there is absolutely no time to waste,” he said. +44 (0)7981 256908 n [email protected] calling for greater urgency from Dublin to sign up to Offshore wind will be a vital source of electricity in Asia Andrew Silver the legislative and policy changes required to deliver the next decade as demand is set to soar, driven +886 902 452 947 n [email protected] on ambitions for at least 3.5GW of installed offshore by a wave of new power-hungry data centres, Web editor Robin Lancaster wind by 2030. population growth and a massive electrification +44 (0)7464 930 784 n [email protected] Chief executive David Connolly will tell delegates agenda, largely in transport. At the same time peat at this week’s IWEA meeting in the Irish capital and coal-fired power plants are being shut down. Sales that new marine consenting rules must be a priority Dublin must also get interconnections right as and that “urgent financial support” is needed for the there is a natural ceiling on demand in a country of Sales manager Tom Allerston local supply chain. fewer than 5 million people. Several links, including +44 (0)1962 849 302 n [email protected] He will also call for new support scheme RESS a first with France, are in the pipeline but ensuring Sales and marketing executive to be opened as quickly as possible and for clarity Ireland is plugged into the UK and the wider Stephanie Partridge on grid connection policy. “It may be more than 10 European network is essential. A 3.5GW target +44 (0)1962 890 468 n [email protected] years to 2030 but that is a very short space of time sounds about right for 2030 needs but the nascent Senior sales executive Cassi Davison to build an offshore wind industry from scratch sector has the potential to deliver much more. +44 (0)1962 790 460 n [email protected] Sales executive Guy Dano IN THE FRAME +44 (0)1962 890 440 n [email protected]

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The Ras Ghareb, Egypt 262 Under construction with the remainder either division’s new director general Tropezon, Mexico 126 Under construction SECI 3-4 Phase 2, India 252 Under construction in construction or holding Thierry Kalfon said: “Our team Villa Ahumada, Mexico 150 Under construction Solomon Forks, US 277 Under construction authorisation. will develop a global strategy TOTAL 2154MW The remaining 500MW (and) performance plans Spain, several projects 640 Under construction will come from a longer- for the company’s business Triple H, US 250 Permitted Offshore wind term 2.8GW portfolio of units, manage our global , Norway 208 Under construction Seamade, Belgium 487 Under construction renewables projects at an partnerships and accelerate advanced stage. development.” by Paris to reduce consenting “Renewable energy is an Kalfon said 4.6GW delays and set a 36GW Leading role awaits for important element in the fight ambitions in onshore wind onshore capacity goal for against climate change and so are achievable as there will 2028 but said the government offshore wind alliance it is crucial to have a wide- be a huge global increase in must do more for the Engie has set its sights added, with Engie good at ranging energy mix on offer capacity in the coming years, renewable energy sector. on a near-trebling of an energy management, financial for our clients,” executive vice largely due to falling costs and She called on officials existing 5.5GW pipeline of and industrial engineering president Gwenaelle Avice- improving turbine technology. to open up more military offshore wind projects being and development, and EDPR Huet told the briefing. In Europe, Engie’s home and radar-affected areas to developed in a joint venture known for its expertise in Engie plans to finance market of France will play onshore wind development. with Portugal’s EDPR. development, procurement half of the new capacity via a starring role with 161MW “Paris needs to reform The partners are aiming and project management. power purchase agreements, already in construction and its repowering legislation to amass a portfolio of Some 1.5GW of the existing a marked increase on the further 361MW with consent as most projects have to be 14GW over the coming years 5.5GW portfolio is currently existing 500MW backed by and due online by end-2021. put through the years-long with around 6GW to be in under construction, including off-take deals. Avice-Huet said Avice-Huet welcomed work authorisation process again construction by 2025. the 487MW Seamade wind even though we are only “That should be feasible farm off Belgium and 950MW replacing old machines with given that global installed Moray East off Scotland, which better performing and less offshore wind capacity is is expected online in 2021-22. noisy ones,” she added. expected to increase to Remaining projects include The developer has 1.2GW 150GW by 2030 from its the 950MW Moray West, of permitted projects in the current 20GW,” said global 24MW French floating project US to add to a total Americas renewables boss Thierry Kalfon. Golfe du Lion, the B&C haul of 450MW commissioned The partners formally 400MW project in Poland and this year, including sites in launched their 50-50 offshore 1.5GW Mayflower in the US. Brazil. wind alliance earlier this year In France, Engie is leading Offshore wind energy is and will target several markets the LEM consortium, which is part of Engie’s plan (see story for growth. French plans building the Noirmoutier and right), although only one to auction more than 1GW Treport projects, each rated at project will be commissioned per year in the 2020s are of 496MW. Both are scheduled before the end of 2021, the particular interest. to be up and running in 487MW Seamade off Belgium. Kalfon said: “Our alliance is 2023, although that timetable Engie subsidiary Electrabel is making us stronger and more could slip depending on the TWO-YEAR SURGE: Gwenaelle Avice-Huet (standing) and developing the project jointly competitive.” The partners outcome of final appeals Thierry Kalfon address journalists Photo: renews with Otary and Eneco. complement each other, he against consents.

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