445 results found for 'Saare Wind Energy'

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  • Estonia Grants First Offshore Wind Farm Building Permit

    16 May 2025
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The Estonian government has approved a draft bill granting the first building permit for the construction of an offshore wind farm in the country. The permit will be granted to Saare Wind Energy OÜ, which plans to build a wind farm on the west coast of Saaremaa. The company seeks to build an offshore wind […]

  • Estonia Halts Saare 7 Licensing as No Bidders Qualify

    14 July 2025
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) has refused to initiate the superficies licence proceedings for the Saare 7 offshore wind farm area, as the auction process did not result in a winning bidder. In May, CPTRA announced an auction for the development of an offshore wind farm in the Saare 7 area. OÜ […]

  • French Developer Winner of Estonia’s Latest Offshore Wind Tender

    23 January 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) has selected Oxan Energy, a French-based offshore wind developer, as the winner of the auction for the Saare 1 area. The company plans to install as many as 60 floating wind turbines, with a combined capacity of 900 MW. The French company submitted a bid of EUR […]

  • Valorem, Sunly Join Deep Wind Offshore on 1+ GW Project in Estonia

    14 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom

    Sunly and Valorem Group have signed an agreement with Deep Wind Offshore which will see the three partners jointly developing the Tuul Energy offshore wind project in Estonia. The project is a large-scale offshore wind farm planned to be built west of Saaremaa Island, Estonia, where Deep Wind Offshore secured two sites, Saare 2.1 and […]

  • Oxan Energy Presses Ahead with 900 MW Offshore Wind Farm in Estonia

    26 June 2025
    Authorities, Environment, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) has launched the superficies licence proceedings and environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the Saare 1 offshore wind farm, developed by Oxan Energy. Following the launch of the superficies licence proceedings and EIA, the France-based company can start preparing the EIA programme, which must be submitted to the […]

  • Utilitas Taps Arenso for Design Work on Estonian Offshore Wind Project

    3 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom

    Finnish wind energy service provider Arenso and Utilitas Wind have signed an agreement for cooperation on the 1.2 GW Saare-Liivi offshore wind project in Estonia. Arenso was assigned to prepare a basic design for the offshore wind project. The work was launched in February and is planned to be completed by the end of July […]

  • Estonia Invites Competing Applications for Saare 7 Offshore Wind Area as Developer Submits Proposal

    17 January 2025
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates

    Estonian developer Sunly Wind has applied for a superficies licence with Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) for an offshore wind farm in the Saare 7 area. The CPTRA has now initiated a procedure for the area under which it invites any competing applications to be submitted, in which case an auction would be […]

  • Final Dogger Bank Service Operation Vessel Delivered

    31 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    UK-headquartered North Star has named and delivered its latest service operation vessel (SOV), completing its fleet of vessels chartered for long-term service at the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. The Grampian Tweed is the fourth SOV introduced ahead of schedule to support the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm, owned by a consortium of […]

  • New Geotechnical Investigation Contract to Keep Fugro Busy Offshore Australia

    10 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    Netherlands-headquartered Fugro has been awarded a contract for soil investigation services for Parkwind’s Blue Mackerel offshore wind farm in Australia. Fugro will execute offshore geotechnical investigations to support the Blue Mackerel project being developed by Parkwind, part of JERA Nex. For this project, the company will deploy its specialist geotechnical vessel, Fugro Mariner, to collect […]

  • Saipem and Divento Join Forces on Two Floating Wind Projects Offshore Italy

    6 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom

    Italy’s Saipem and its compatriot Divento have signed a collaboration agreement for the application of STAR 1, Saipem’s proprietary technology for floating offshore wind, in support of the 7 Seas Med and Ichnusa Wind Power projects. The companies will focus on the two projects with the aim of supporting their participation in the first auction […]

  • Ørsted Connects First Greater Changhua 2b & 4 Onshore Substation to Grid

    18 April 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first onshore substation of the 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind project in Taiwan has been connected to the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) onshore substation in the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park. The energisation of the onshore substation for the Greater Changhua 2b part of the project was delivered by Ørsted’s EPC contractor […]

  • First Vestas 15 MW Turbine Up at EnBW’s 960 MW Offshore Wind Farm

    25 April 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The first of 64 Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbines has been installed at EnBW’s He Dreiht project site offshore Germany. Completed on 24 April, the project milestone also marks the first time Vestas’s flagship wind turbine has been installed at an offshore wind farm. “With the installation of the first V236-15.0 MW, we have reached […]

  • New European Project Sets Out to Develop Liquid Hydrogen-Fueled SOV Design

    21 February 2025
    Collaboration, Green Hydrogen, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Transition, Vessels

    A consortium led by ArianeGroup, an industrial company handling liquid hydrogen (LH2) for space applications, has launched a new project to develop solutions for storing and using LH2 as an energy carrier for maritime transport. The solution will be integrated into a new zero-emission service operation vessel (SOV) for offshore wind farms. The project named […]

  • Nordlicht 1 Offshore Wind Turbine Order Lands on Vestas’s Desk

    1 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has secured a firm order for the Nordlicht 1 offshore wind project in Germany, for which the Danish OEM will deliver 68 of its V236-15.0 MW wind turbines. The total order of 1,020 MW for Vattenfall’s wind farm that has a grid connection capacity of 980 MW includes an additional 40 MW to use […]

  • Aikido, Odfjell Secure METCentre Slots to Test Floating Wind Projects Offshore Norway

    20 May 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    California-based Aikido Technologies and Norway’s Odfjell Oceanwind have secured slots at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) to test their new floating offshore wind projects. Odfjell Oceanwind secured a slot with a 24 MW capacity grid connection at METCentre, with the ambition of installing one full-scale floating offshore wind turbine in 2028. The project, named […]

  • Next Ocean CEO: ‘Offshore Energy Vessel Crews No Longer Have to Operate Blind’

    25 February 2025
    Business development, Innovation, Technology, Vessels

    Dutch company Next Ocean is looking at a global reach for its technology that predicts waves and vessel motions minutes beforehand. Following a period of demonstration deployments of WavePredictor and the first vessels using it commercially, Next Ocean says it is witnessing the technology becoming standard equipment onboard vessels working in offshore wind and other […]

  • Tenders in 2025: Malta, Colombia to Select First Offshore Wind Developers; Ireland, Netherlands to Award New Areas

    1 January 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    State procurement of new offshore wind farms continues worldwide, with some countries launching their first tenders and others preparing to open their next offshore wind auctions this year. In this article, we are bringing a selection of news published by offshoreWIND.biz in 2024 about tenders planned for 2025. Malta Launches First Offshore Wind Tender On […]

  • Estonia to Relaunch 1.2 GW Offshore Wind Tender in January 2025

    5 December 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) will launch again a tender for the development of an offshore wind farm in the Saare 1 area, nearly a year after the initial auction ended without any bids. The auction will take place between 21 January and 23 January 2025. The starting price for the Saare […]

  • Licence Application for Norwegian Floating Wind Project Submitted

    16 December 2024
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The consortium behind the GoliatVIND floating offshore wind farm has submitted the licence application for the project to the Norwegian Ministry of Energy. The consortium consists of Source Galileo Norge, Odfjell Oceanwind, Kansai Electric Power, and ENEOS Renewable Energy. “In order to meet Enova’s deadline and to be competitive globally, we are dependent on a […]

  • EU Clears EUR 2.6 Billion Support Scheme for Offshore Wind in Estonia

    10 December 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Planning & Permitting

    The European Commission (EC) has approved a EUR 2.6 billion scheme to support the development of renewable offshore wind energy in Estonia. The scheme was approved under the State Aid Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (TCTF) adopted by the Commission on 9 March 2023. The measure aims to support the construction and operation of offshore […]

  • Australian State Looking for Partner on 2 GW Transmission Project to Grid-Connect Offshore Wind

    10 December 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure

    VicGrid, an agency of the Australian state of Victoria, has invited expressions of interest from potential partners who will help build and operate a 2 GW transmission system which will transport electricity generated by future offshore wind farms in Gippsland to the state grid. “VicGrid is looking for an industry partner to help it deliver […]

  • Supply Chain Calls for Narrowing Down Floating Wind Platform Designs

    19 December 2024
    Cables, Floating Wind, Industry, Ports & Logistics, Research & Development, Supply Chain, Vessels

    “We probably have around 150 different floating wind platform designs at the moment. So how do you design a perfect port for floating wind?”—Tommy Sandtorv, CCO Karmsund Port at Karmsund Port Authority. Sandtorv shared this thought on 26 November at Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) in Amsterdam, during a discussion about the challenges in […]

  • Star of the South Completes Feasibility Studies, Scales Down Turbine Plans

    19 November 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Following five years of feasibility studies and consultations, the Star of the South offshore wind project in Australia revealed several updates, including the reduction in the proposed number of turbines from 200 to 150. Star of the South, Australia’s first proposed wind farm, secured a Commonwealth Feasibility Licence in May, which confirmed the project’s location […]

  • Norway Approves EIA for GoliatVIND Floating Wind Project, Paving Way for Licence Application

    12 November 2024
    Business development, Environment, Floating Wind, R&D, Research & Development

    The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has approved the environmental impact assessment (EIA) programme for the GoliatVIND floating offshore wind project. In line with the exemption provision in the Offshore Energy Act, GoliatVIND will shortly submit a licence application. If granted, the project is said to be the world’s first demonstration plant with turbines and floaters […]

  • BlueFloat’s 2.1 GW Gippsland Dawn Offshore Wind Farm Gets Major Project Status

    6 November 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Gippsland Dawn offshore wind project, being developed by BlueFloat Energy, has been granted Major Project Status (MPS) by the Australian Government. Gippsland Dawn is one of 16 projects nationwide to receive this recognition and the second offshore wind project being developed to hold this status, following the Star of the South wind farm. The […]

  • EnBW Awards North Star Its First CSOV Contract

    15 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    EnBW has awarded North Star a contract for a commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) to be deployed at the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany. The award, which is the first for a North Star CSOV, for the newbuild Grampian Kestrel will precede the decade-long minimum charter contract that the company signed […]