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  • Norwegian Gov’t Progresses Subsidy Model for Utsira Nord, Plans to Launch Floating Wind Tender After ESA Approval

    10 April 2025
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has notified the European Free Trade Association’s (EFTA) Surveillance Authority (ESA) of the support model for a floating wind project in the Utsira Nord area and expects to open the tender for the area as soon as ESA has approved the model. The tender will be carried out in two […]

  • Balmoral Comtec Enters Agreement for Korea’s 750 MW Floating Wind Project

    17 February 2025
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Supply Chain

    Balmoral Comtec, part of Balmoral Group, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with LS Cable & System and LS Marine Solution to collaborate in the floating offshore wind sector and on the 750 MW Bandibuli/Firefly project in South Korea. The agreement with the Scotland-based buoyancy, protection, and insulation services provider follows LS Cable & […]

  • Norway Reopens Its First Floating Wind Tender

    19 May 2025
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has invited applications for three floating wind sites within the Utsira Nord area. The deadline for submitting proposals is set for 15 September 2025. The government is offering a project capacity of 500 MW at each site through the tendering process, which will be carried out in two stages: the […]

  • Hexicon Signs Second Credit Facility Extension to Support Company During Planned Divestments

    3 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind

    Swedish floating wind developer Hexicon has extended a credit facility the company secured earlier to provide support during a period of planned divestments until 30 June 2025. For financing, which amounts to SEK 75 million (approximately EUR 6.6 million), Hexicon signed an agreement with Wallstreet Aktiebolag, part of the Wallenius Group, and a group of […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • Japan’s ENEOS Joins Floating Offshore Wind Project in Norway

    18 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind

    ENEOS Renewable Energy (ERE), the renewable arm of the Japanese energy giant ENEOS Holdings, has become a partner in the GoliatVIND floating offshore wind project in Norway by acquiring a 20 per cent shareholding in the project from Odfjell Oceanwind. This is ERE’s first overseas offshore wind project and the second floating offshore wind farm […]

  • 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 […]

  • Mingyang Enters Deal with Renexia, Italian Gov’t to Set Up Shop in Italy

    8 August 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Floating Wind, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Renexia, Mingyang Smart Energy and Minister Adolfo Urso from the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will see the Chinese OEM producing wind turbines in Italy and supplying 18.8 MW wind turbines for Renexia’s Med Wind floating wind farm. The agreement includes a EUR 500 […]

  • 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 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 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Subsea7 and Siemens Energy to Develop Subsea Hub for Floating Offshore Wind

    30 January 2023
    R&D, Technology

    Subsea7 and Siemens Energy have joined forces to develop a Subsea High Voltage Plug and Power Hub for the floating offshore wind market. Building on Subsea7’s competence in subsea engineering and offshore construction for the oil and gas and renewables markets, and Siemens Energy’s competence in electrical systems and subsea wet mate connectors, the two […]

  • The Crown Estate Issues Invitation to Tender for Pre-Qualified Celtic Sea Floating Wind Bidders

    13 August 2024
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Planning & Permitting

    The Crown Estate has invited proposals from the pre-qualified bidders in the Round 5 seabed leasing process which will award up to 4.5 GW of floating wind capacity in the Celtic Sea. On 13 August, The Crown Estate said the second phase of the leasing process got underway on 8 August, following the conclusion of […]