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  • Structural Defects Delay Japan’s First Floating Offshore Wind Farm

    22 September 2023
    Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Japan’s Goto Floating Wind Farm Consortium has postponed the commissioning of the Goto City Offshore Wind Power Generation Project by two years following the discovery of defects in the floating structures to be used for the project. The project’s commercial operation date was initially scheduled for January 2024. However, the construction process was delayed due […]

  • France Earmarks EUR 4.12 Billion for 2024 Floating Wind Tender

    8 December 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The European Commission has given France the green light to support the construction and operation of two floating offshore wind farms in the Gulf of Lion with EUR 4.12 billion, which will be awarded through a tender the French government is expected to launch next year. Developers of the two floating wind farms, each of […]

  • Acteon: Breathing New Life Into Floating Wind Using Digital Response Twin

    14 December 2023
    Innovation, Technology

    By using new technologies such as digital response twin, one of the tools developed and used successfully in the oil and gas sector, we can extend the life of floating wind farms, Tim Eyles, Vice President of UK-based company Acteon revealed. At this year’s Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC), Eyles, together with Ben Andrew, […]

  • Norway Postpones Floating Wind Tender to 2025 as Gov’t Establishing ‘Common State Aid Model’

    25 March 2024
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The award of 1.5 GW of floating wind capacity in Norway, which was planned for this year, will be held in 2025 as the Norwegian government plans to have the subsidy model in place and announced before allocating the Utsira Nord (Utsira North) offshore areas for development. In this article: The government says the decision […]

  • Deep Wind Offshore and Hy2gen Form Green Hydrogen Partnership

    10 November 2023
    Business development, Collaboration, Green Hydrogen, Outlook & Strategy, Power-to-X, Research & Development

    Deep Wind Offshore has joined forces with the hydrogen company Hy2gen to produce green hydrogen from offshore wind. “The combination of offshore wind and hydrogen has got massive potential. It is not possible to achieve net zero without green energy carriers, who will need a massive amount of renewable energy,” said Knut Vassbotn, CEO of […]

  • ‘Collaborate with Non-Obvious Partners’ – Offshore Energy Industry Talks Innovation and Speeding Things Up 

    30 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Industry, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Ports & Logistics, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Transition

    The offshore wind industry, now the linchpin between several offshore energy industries, is calling for both innovation and accelerating deployment, while also making sure one does not impede the progress of the other.  

  • Offshore Wind Turbines in 2023: 16 MW Model Installed Offshore, 18 MW WTGs Selected for New Project, 22 MW Turbine Announced

    2 January 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Market Outlooks, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    The biggest wind turbines also make for some of the biggest news on offshoreWIND.biz. In 2023, wind turbine OEMs continued making headlines with their models in development and on the path to commercialisation, and by announcing brand new wind turbine generators (WTGs) that further raise the bar in generation capacity and size. Here, we are […]

  • Offshore Construction Starts on Japan’s First Floating Wind Farm

    18 October 2022
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore construction has started on the 16.8 MW Goto floating wind farm offshore Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, the Goto Floating Wind Farm LLC consortium said. The first of the eight SPAR-type floating foundations has been loaded onto the semi-submersible spud barge, Float Raiser, at Fukue Port and transported to the wind farm site offshore […]

  • Japan’s First Floating Offshore Wind Farm Nears Construction Phase

    26 April 2022
    Authorities, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The construction of the 16.8 MW Goto floating wind farm offshore Japan is scheduled to start in September and the wind farm is expected to be commissioned in January 2024, the consortium behind the project said. The Goto Floating Wind Farm LLC Consortium was selected as the winner of Japan’s first offshore wind auction since […]

  • K2 Management Hired as Technical Advisor on Japan’s First Commercial Scale Floating Wind Farm

    8 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    K2 Management has been hired as technical advisor on the Goto floating wind farm in Japan, the country’s first commercial scale floating wind farm. The Goto Floating Wind Farm LLC Consortium – comprising Toda Corporation, Eneos Corporation, Osaka Gas, Inpex Corporation, Kansai Electric Power, and Chubu Electric Power – was selected last year as the […]

  • Octopus Energy to Pour Billions in Offshore Wind Globally by 2030

    24 July 2023
    Business & Finance

    UK green energy supplier Octopus Energy Group has announced that it will invest, through its generation arm, USD 20 billion (about GBP 15 billion) into offshore wind by 2030. The company said that this will go towards the generation of 12 GW of renewable electricity a year, enough to power 10 million homes. Octopus is targeting projects […]

  • Norwegians and Japanese Bolster Offshore Wind Bond

    15 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Contracts & Tenders, Outlook & Strategy

    The organisations, Norwegian Offshore Wind and Japan Wind Power Association (JWPA), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Tokyo which aims to get the business going between the countries’ offshore wind companies. Both the Norwegian supply chain and developers are interested in the emerging Japanese market, Norwegian Offshore Wind said. According to the organisation, […]

  • Developer of Italy’s First Offshore Wind Farm Exploring Environmentally Friendly Solutions for Floating Wind Project off Sicily

    23 June 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Renexia, the company behind Italy’s first offshore wind farm and the first to be built in the Mediterranean Sea, has contracted Seas Geosciences to study the most environmentally sustainable mooring and anchoring solutions for Med Wind, a 2.8 GW floating wind project proposed to be built in the Strait of Sicily. Seas Geosciences, part of […]

  • Japan Selects Winner of First Offshore Wind Auction

    14 June 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Japan has selected the developer of the country’s first commercial floating offshore wind farm. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) selected the consortium of six companies led by Toda Corporation to build a 16.8 MW floating wind project offshore Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture. […]

  • Japan Opens First Floating Wind Farm Auction

    24 June 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Japan has issued a call for developers interested in building and operating a floating offshore wind farm off Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture. The invitation for developers to participate in the auction opened on 24 June and will close on 24 December, 2020. Two of Japan’s ministries, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; and the […]

  • Japan Launches 1.42GW Offshore Wind Study

    18 March 2015
    Authorities

    In a bid to develop more offshore wind the Japanese Environment Ministry has selected three sites with combined capacity of 1.42GW. Iwate Prefecture and the town of Hirono were selected by the ministry to study community acceptance and environmental impact on the construction of a 200MW offshore wind farm. Also, the authorities in the city […]

  • Japan Hopes ‘Forward’ Project Will Commercialise Floating Wind Technology

    21 June 2012
    Authorities, Technology

    The Government of Japan hopes that the Forward project’s outcome will be commercialising one or more offshore wind floating platforms’ designs, writes the Windpower Monthly. Namely, four offshore wind floating platforms will be installed off the Fukushima’s coast in 2013 and 2014. The first stage, which involves installation of a floating substation and a 2MW […]

  • Japan Tests Floating Wind Turbines

    30 August 2012

    As the UPI reports, Japanese officials have announced that the country’s first floating wind farm is operational from Wednesday. The wind farm is located about a half mile off the coast of Kabashima island, one of the Goto Islands. Next summer, the 100-kilowatt turbine will be replaced by a larger 2-megawatt generator after collecting performance […]

  • Japan Identifies Eleven Offshore Wind Areas

    31 July 2019
    Authorities

    The Japanese government has designated eleven areas as potentially suitable for the development of offshore wind farms. The areas have been identified jointly by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), and the Port Authority of Japan. Four areas lie offshore Akita prefecture: Noshiro (Mitane and […]

  • Aker Offshore Wind, Mainstream Renewable Power Take 50 Pct Stake in Japanese Floating Project

    14 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Aker Offshore Wind and Mainstream Renewable Power have closed the transaction on acquiring a 50 per cent ownership stake in Progression Energy’s 800 MW floating wind project in Japan. The two companies’ entrance into the project was announced in August 2021, when Aker Offshore Wind and Mainstream Renewable Power were selected as the preferred bidder to acquire […]

  • BW Ideol and ENEOS to Jointly Build Floating Wind Farm Offshore Japan

    7 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    BW Ideol and Japan’s ENEOS Corporation have signed a joint development agreement to develop a site-specific, commercial-scale floating offshore wind farm off Japan based on BW Ideol’s patented Damping Pool® technology. ENEOS Corporation, Japan’s largest oil refiner and distributor, participated in an offshore wind project off the coast of Taiwan in April 2019, and in […]

  • Japanese Offshore Wind Taking Pace

    23 September 2013
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    A lot is happening on the offshore wind power front in Japan. In June Japan unveiled its first commercial floating turbine in Asia and the 2-megawatt turbine off the coast of Fukushima will start operation on 7 October. The first project phase, which included the setting of the Hitachi downwind-type turbine with a rotor diameter […]

  • Japan Launches Third Offshore Wind Auction

    10 December 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Japan has launched an auction to select the developer of up to 356 MW of offshore wind capacity in the Happo-Noshiro zone off Akita prefecture. The auction opened on Friday, 10 December, and the deadline to submit bids for the development of projects at the Happo-Noshiro zone is 10 June 2022. The winner is expected […]

  • Dutch to Study Floating Wind Market in Japan

    4 February 2022
    Business & Finance

    The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Japan, together with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), has commissioned the Dutch company BLIX Consultancy to perform a floating wind market study in Japan, with an aim to strengthen offshore wind collaborations between the two countries and to obtain a better understanding of the floating wind […]

  • Tempest Hits Underwater Object at Kentish Flats

    31 March 2017
    Vessels

    RNLI crews from Whitstable and Sheerness were called around 9.50am on 30 March to assist the Tempest crew transfer vessel (CTV), which had struck an unknown underwater object and was taking in water at the Kentish Flats offshore wind farm area.

  • Equinor Talks Norwegian Floating Offshore Wind

    2 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    Equinor has met with the supplier industry in Norway to discuss cost-effective solutions for floating offshore wind farms on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Equinor got together with Global Center of Expertise (GCE) NODE companies in Agder to talk about finding cost-optimal solutions related to designing floating foundations for turbines in the 10-15MW range. Additionally, the meetings were […]