Since early September, our survey vessel Karina has been investigating the seabed in the ELWIND offshore wind farm areas in Estonia and Latvia. This part of the Baltic Sea is a new region for G-TEC, making this two-month project especially exciting. The scope of the project is to Understand seabed and subsurface conditions with precision [...]

ELWIND has signed a contract with Haskoning Nederland B.V. to carry out a study on determination and assessment of possible grid connection points, cable routes, as well as network configuration for Estonian-Latvian offshore wind park project ELWIND. The Grid Study will be conducted by Haskoning for the ELWIND offshore wind park areas in Latvia and [...]

The ELWIND offshore wind project has published a procurement for independent expert services to provide technical assurance and quality control for upcoming site investigations. The procurement includes five roles: · Technical Expert for overall technical support · Technical Expert for the metocean in-situ measurement campaign · Technical Expert for the geophysical survey · Technical Expert [...]

ELWIND has signed a contract with the Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment “BIOR” to carry out a study assessing the impact of the Latvian area of the offshore wind park ELWIND on fish and fisheries. Study on the environmental impact on fish and fisheries of the Latvian offshore wind park will be [...]

The Geophysical Survey of the ELWIND offshore wind farm areas, carried out by G-TEC, is scheduled to begin in September and will last for up to two months. This will be a comprehensive seabed survey designed to support the preliminary design of future offshore wind farms in the project area. The main objectives of the [...]

A public procurement has been launched for a metocean in-situ measurement campaign for the Estonian-Latvian ELWIND offshore wind farm project. A single provider will be selected to conduct measurements at both planned offshore wind park sites—one in Estonia and one in Latvia. The campaign aims to gather accurate meteorological and oceanographic data, which will be [...]

The main objective of the study is to obtain the fullest possible information on the baseline environmental status of seals and other sea mammals (grey seal, ringed seal, possibly harbor porpoise if presence recorded) prior to any development activities in and around the ELWIND offshore wind park sites and the future temporal and spatial effects [...]

ELWIND published details on the preparation of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) program. It program describes the entire process of environmental impact assessment, for example the scope and methodology of environmental studies conducted in the Estonian marine area, community involvement, etc. Proposals, objections and questions about the EIA program could have been submitted during the [...]

The Latvia-Estonia cross-border offshore wind park project ELWIND begins cooperation with the Dutch company Ventolines. This technical consultant service provider has accumulated significant experience in wind park development. "Ventolines has contributed to wind park development projects in the Netherlands, Sweden, the USA and other countries, proving its competence and professionalism. For the needs of Elwind, [...]

Estonian and Latvian electricity transmission system operators (TSO) Elering and Augstsprieguma tīkls (AST) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), with which the parties will jointly start activities for the development of the fourth Estonian-Latvian electricity interconnection. This new interconnection will increase transmission capacity between Estonia and Latvia, contributing to the development of renewable energy sources [...]