Ørsted Awards Jacket Foundation Contract
for Ørsted’s first 900MW Greater Changhua projects to be installed in 2021. The deal is reportedly Ørsted’s largest jacket foundation contract ever, as well as the largest of its kind in the global offshore wind industry.SDMS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of integrated steel maker China Steel Corporation (CSC), will extend its facilities in Sing Da Harbor in Kaohsiung specifically for the project and have the new factory operational in the first quarter of 2020.Matthias Bausenwein, Ørsted’s President for Asia Pacific, said, “Foundations are an essential
Hexicon to Build First Rotating Offshore Wind Platform
Swedish offshore wind energy company Hexicon, which recently announced an agreement with steel maker SSAB to develop offshore wind power platforms in deep waters, informs it is to build its first reference power plant in the Baltic Sea. “This new 11.4 MSEK (1.24 MEUR) capital will enable us to intensify our design work and the formation of a Swedish consortium that will build our first platform,” said Henrik Baltscheffsky, CEO of Hexicon. Hexicon’s innovative and patented floating platforms are fitted with several wind turbines. The platform turns automatically into the wind