Ørsted has appointed Peter Hepburn as head of generation UK from 1 October 2026. He will oversee its 5.7GW UK offshore wind fleet and support the commissioning of Hornsea 3.
An investigation has begun after Cadeler’s Wind Orca collided with the berthed BG Orange at the Port of Tyne, where a gantry crane was damaged and one operator was injured.
Ørsted has completed all 197 concrete working platforms for Hornsea 3. About half have been transported from Świnoujście in Poland to the Port of Tyne for the offshore foundation campaign.
Windcat and Ørsted have signed five-year contracts for seven crew transfer vessels supporting offshore wind operations from Grimsby’s Royal Docks.
Boskalis vessel Trustee will carry dozens of monopiles from Bilbao to Teesworks for Ørsted’s 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind project.
Ørsted completed energisation of all 66 array cables at Greater Changhua 2b and 4, while all 42 turbines at Greater Changhua 4 are now connected to Taiwan’s grid.
Cadeler completed the first fully commissioned monopile foundation installation at Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind project using the newbuild vessel Wind Ally.
Mubadala Investment Company has invested $325 million in Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind project, joining an Apollo-led consortium in the UK development.
Van Oord has installed the first monopile foundations at the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea.
