This market intelligence summary from Global Underwater Hub examines renewable projects in Europe in December 2021 and January 2022, as well as oil and gas projects in the North Sea, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, and CCUS and hydrogen projects.

Renewable Projects

European Renewable Projects 
European offshore wind projects continue progress through contract awards and project milestones.

Hellenic Cables have been awarded the Dogger Bank C array cable contract by DEME Offshore, the renewables business unit of DEME Group. Already the designated cables’ supplier for Dogger Bank A and B, with this contract Hellenic Cables becomes the sole inter array cables’ supplier for the world’s largest offshore wind farm.

Twin Hub floating demonstrator project in the Celtic Sea has now been awarded a marine licence, for a renewable energy test site in Cornwall, South West England. The marine licence is the latest consent for the project which was awarded a Section 36 consent in 2020. Hexicon AB, the global offshore wind developer and technology provider, completed the acquisition in July 2021 of the consented site and will deploy Hexicon’s innovative twin-turbine floating foundation for a 30-40MW
floating offshore wind demonstration project.

Turbine commissioning at Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm has been successfully completed. The wind farm, constructed by RWE on behalf the project partners, has reached this milestone on time, overcoming the challenges posed by the global pandemic.

Once fully operational, the power output of Triton Knoll will be 857 megawatts (MW), making it one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms. Standing at 164 meters tall, full operations of the 90 turbines are expected in the first quarter of 2022.

EDF Renewables has announced a joint venture partnership with international renewable project developer DP Energy, to generate up to 1GW of low carbon green energy in the Celtic Sea. The project is likely to span English and Welsh waters.

The floating offshore wind project called ‘Gwynt Glas’ will provide power for approximately 927,400 homes. This will contribute a significant part of the Crown Estate’s ambitions for 4GW of capacity in the Celtic Sea as announced in October 2021.

Work including identification of a refined area of search and detailed constraint studies for the proposed location of the project are already underway. An area of interest encompassing some 1,500km² has been identified, approximately 70km from the shore, with initial remote aerial surveys for marine mammal and birds taking place since Spring 2021. 

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