OMNI Features｜CS Wind Vietnam Unveils Southeast Asia's Largest Offshore Wind Tower Factory．UK Plans to Invest $74 Billion on "Electrical Spine" Project Connecting Scotland to England．Esvagt Secures Contract to Service Vestas at Ecowende's Hollandse Kust West OWF

｜CS Wind Vietnam Unveils Southeast Asia's Largest Offshore Wind Tower Factory
CS Wind Vietnam, a unit of South Korea's CS Wind Corporation, has inaugurated an $80 million offshore wind tower factory in Phu My 1 Industrial Park situated in Vietnam's southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. Last week, the inaugural ceremony was held, symbolizing a milestone in the development of renewable energy in the area.

Spanning across 24 hectares, the facility boasts an impressive annual output of wind towers, totaling 360,000 tons, positioning it as the largest in Southeast Asia. Additionally, the facility plans to expand the size of the towers it produces from 7.5 to 10 meters. This expansion initiative is geared towards meeting the escalating demands of the global wind power market, projected to experience a surge of four to five times by the year 2025.

The inaugural ceremony also marked 20 years of CS Wind's Vietnam factory, which opened on the last day of 2003 and was also CS Wind’s first overseas factory. The plant mainly provides towers for the Southern Pacific, Asian, and U.S. markets. The event was attended by executives from CS Wind's major partners, including Siemens Gamesa and Vestas.

｜UK Plans to Invest $74 Billion to Accelerate Offshore Wind Integration with "Electrical Spine" Connecting Scotland to England
According to reports, a new plan by the UK's electricity network operator proposes installing a new "electrical spine" plan, which is valued at £58 billion ($74 billion). This "super highway" will connect the east coast of Scotland to Liverpool in England, accelerating the achievement of the goal to seamlessly integrate 86 GW of offshore wind power by 2035.

Fintan Slye, the Executive Director at ESO (National Grid Electricity System Operator), in comments reported by The Sunday Times, indicated that ESO must take swift, co-ordinated and lasting action for the UK to meet its emissions targets for the mid-2030s onwards.

The report suggests that this transformation marks the most significant overhaul of the UK's high-voltage transmission network since its establishment in the 1950s. However, plans to upgrade the grid to help bring more renewables online have however faced fierce local and celebrity-backed opposition, prompting the government to recently set out measures to give people living near new transmission projects money off their energy bills.

｜Esvagt Secures Contract to Service Vestas at Ecowende's Hollandse Kust West Offshore Wind Farm
Denmark's Esvagt has secured a 15-year contract with extension options to service Vestas at Ecowende's Hollandse Kust West offshore wind farm in the Netherlands and has initiated the process of designing and building the new service operations vessel (SOV). The newbuild will be the 6th purpose-built SOV for Vestas.

At the end of last year, Ecowende placed an order for 52 Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbines for the Hollandse Kust West offshore wind farm. The wind turbine installation is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2026.

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