The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has announced it has awarded £2.4 million to nine supply chain companies, aimed at enhancing their capabilities and increasing capacity within the offshore wind sector.

Electro-Wind has showcased one of its latest projects, in collaboration with a leading UK system integrator and automation solution provider and says its custom-designed transformers will be seamlessly integrated into advanced power cabins and form part of a large system supporting offshore renewable operations.

FairWind has announced it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Japanese turbine operations and maintenance specialist Wind Energy Partners (WEP).

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has announced it has been awarded a contract to provide subsea construction and tie-in work at a subsea field development on the UK continental shelf.

Quartzelec, a UK-based engineering services specialist, has been awarded a £15.4 million contract by renewable energy leader Drax for the upgrade and refurbishment of two 12MW hydro-electric generators for the historic Glenlee Hydro Power Station in southern Scotland.

Indeximate, a leading provider of fibre sensing-based subsea power cable health monitoring to the offshore wind energy industry, has announced it has officially launched its Scattersphere platform, a breakthrough in continuous cable health monitoring and risk intelligence for the offshore wind industry at Offshore Wind North East. Scattersphere is a non-intrusive, hardware-agnostic solution to replace one-off alarms with analysis of continuous health behaviour and highlight cable failure risks before they become a threat to asset integrity.