Overview
- Heerema installed the first offshore converter station in late March, placing the jacket on the seabed and the topside platform that converts turbine power for long-distance transmission.
- Ørsted linked the first export cable to shore in late March, starting initial power delivery toward the UK grid through high-voltage direct-current lines and a fiber link for data.
- Turbine foundation work is due to begin in April, with Cadeler’s Wind Ally and Wind Orca and the SOV Esvagt Froude mobilizing from Rotterdam, the Port of Tyne and the Port of Hull.
- Early monopiles have reached Teesside from Haizea’s plant in Bilbao, with more shipped by Dajin from China after Ørsted reallocated SeAH’s canceled scope to other suppliers.
- Jan De Nul is installing about 680 kilometers of export cables supplied by NKT through 2026 for the 2.9 GW, 197-turbine project that targets 2027 operation and power for roughly 3.3 million homes.