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Sofia Offshore Construction Supply Chain Event in Blyth (September 2023)

Leonardo da Vinci lays the first cables off Redcar beach (September 2023)

Sofia and Newcastle University sign MOU (August 2023)

Sofia's offshore construction base at the Port of Blyth (July 2023)

Photo: Mike Smith Photo

Westgarth Primary students present their ideas on dealing with bird guano, as part of a four-month school project (June 2023)

Aerial of onshore converter station (June 2023)

CGI of the Acta Marine service operations vessel for Sofia's O&M phase (April 2023)

Sofia team Teesside beach clean (April 2023)

Installing the valve hall roof at the converter station site (February 2023)

Supergrid day with Newcastle Uni Masters students (Dec 2022)

Sofia was once again Strategic Event Partner for OWNE (Nov 2022)

Tunnel boring machine in the shaft. The cables will go under the railway bridge via tunnels (May 2023)

Contractor JMS backfilling a cable duct trench (Oct 2022)

Sofia meets future engineers at Bring it On 2022 (Oct 2022)

First horizontal directional drill at landfall (September 2022)

Aerial of onshore cable corridor main construction compound (September 2022)

Framework of onshore converter station valve hall in place (Sept 2022)

Headliners: winners of the NCS22 Enterprise Challenge posed by Sofia (August 2022)

Unveiling hoarding artworks with the Outwood Academy Bydales artists, teacher, parents and project teams (July 2022)

Completion of the second deck of Sofia's offshore converter platform (July 2022)

Aerial photo of the AC route (June 2022)

Sofia's turbine team visit the Danish National Test Centre to see the functioning 14MW SG-DD-222 (May 2022)

Teesside University foundation engineering students visit SGRE's Hull blade factory (March 2022)

Sofia in the Tees Valley supply chain event (March 2022)

Final load-bearing stone platforms for the Sofia and Dogger Bank C converter stations (Feb 2022)

At Prysmian's plant in Pikkala, Finland: copper spools that will form the core of Sofia's export cables (Jan 2022)

View of Batam Yard: offshore converter station fabrication (Nov 2021)

Planting vegetation on the mounds at the end of the Wilton site to better screen the site for local residents (Nov 2021)

Voe Vanguard carries out nearshore UXO and archaeology investigations pre-construction (Oct 2021)

Archaeologist Rebecca Hercock excavates the remains of a Roman-British field system in Redcar as part of the pre-construction works (Sept 2021)

Official ground-breaking with project directors Steve Wilson (SSE) and Matthew Swanwick (RWE), Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, Redcar MP Jacob Young, and Sembcorp’s Andy Koss. (July 2021)

Cadeler's brand new X-class vessels will install Sofia's 100 turbines (June 2021)

Construction starts on Sofia with Jones Bros onsite for the enabling works (June 2021)

Heerema's Sleipnir will install Sofia's 17,000 tonne topside and jacket foundation (April 2021)

RWE, GE and Sembcorp Marine sign HVDC contract (March 2021)

Bathymetry showing the seabed at Dogger Bank (Feb 2021)

Van Oord's jack-up vessel Aeolus is earmarked for the installation of Sofia's 100 monopile foundations (Dec 2020)

Sofia will be the first offshore wind farm to employ Prysmian's cutting-edge cable-laying vessel Leonardo da Vinci (Nov 2020)

Durham Archaeology carries out trial trenching at the converter station site (Nov 2020)

Computer-generated image of Sofia's onshore converter station (Sept 2020)

Benthic survey onboard DSV Curtis Marshall courtesy of Ocean Ecology (August 2020)

Haven Seariser 2 working on Sofia's SI off Redcar beach, Teesside (July 2020)

Computer graphic of Sofia's new HVDC system by GE's Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine (July 2020)

Sofia chooses Siemens Gamesa's 14MW turbines for the project (June 2020)

Dogger Bank sunset from survey vessel Despina (April 2020)

Sofia's Sandra Painter at Outwood Academy Byedales Redcar for National Careers Week (March 2020)

Signing the MOU – Sofia Senior Consents Manager Kim Gauld-Clark and Siobhan Fenton, TU Associate Dean (Enterprise and Business Engagement) (Feb 2020)

Fugro Pioneer set for site investigation surveys (Feb 2020)

Sofia's David Few at Offshore Wind North East (Nov 2019)

Cone penetration tests at Marske-by-the-Sea (Oct 2019)

Sofia team celebrates the CfD win (Sept 2019)

Computer generated image of Sofia Offshore Wind Farm (Feb 2019)

Meeting with the supply chain (Feb 2019)

Computer generated image of Sofia, Dogger Bank (Feb 2019)

Sofia Supplier Workshop, Newton Aycliffe (Nov 2018)

Map of Sofia Offshore Wind Farm (Oct 2018)