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  • Maryland Offshore Wind Project in US Gets Construction Plan Approval

    4 December 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has approved the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the up to 2 GW Maryland offshore wind farm. The approval represents the agency’s completion of the final permit in US Wind’s federal permitting application. “After more than four years of rigorous and robust analysis, we are thrilled […]

  • 2 GW Maryland Offshore Wind Project Receives Approval

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

    The US Department of Interior (DOI) has approved the Maryland Offshore Wind Project, which could provide more than 2 GW of renewable energy generation. The Maryland Offshore Wind Project consists of three planned phases. Two phases, known as MarWin and Momentum Wind, already have offshore renewable energy certificates from the State of Maryland. US Wind […]

  • Delaware, US Wind Sign USD 128 Million Worth of Agreements

    7 January 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    Delaware Governor John Carney and officials from the state’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) have signed three agreements valued at more than USD 128 million (approximately EUR 123 million) with US Wind, which recently received federal approval for its Maryland offshore wind development that will power the Delmarva Peninsula. The Delaware state […]

  • Foundation Fabrication Kicks Off for TotalEnergies’ Culzean Pilot Project

    20 November 2024
    Floating Wind, Foundations, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Archer Wind has started the fabrication of the foundation which will be installed as part of the Culzean floating offshore wind pilot project. This single-turbine, 3 MW pilot project, owned and developed by TotalEnergies, will provide power to the Culzean gas platform in the UK North Sea. According to Archer Wind’s recent social media post, […]

  • NSEC Energy Ministers Call for Digital Tool for Offshore Wind Tenders, Supply Chain Capacities

    28 October 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    At a North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) Ministerial Meeting held on 24 October in Odense, Denmark, the energy ministers of nine North Sea countries signed a new declaration which, among other things, calls for a digital transparency tool for offshore wind tenders and supply chain capacities. NSEC ministers also issued recommendations for hybrid offshore wind […]

  • US Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spans 40 States, Report Says

    20 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Industry, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    According to a report released earlier this month, the US offshore wind supply chain spans 40 states as of December 2024, with 1,932 supplier contracts signed for offshore wind and offshore wind-related projects. The report, Offshore Energy at Work, issued by the US offshore renewable energy industry organisation, Oceantic Network on 15 January, shows that […]

  • Test Bench for 35 MW Wind Turbines Goes Into Operation in China

    17 October 2024
    R&D, Technology

    Shortly after Dongfang reported that the company produced the world’s first 26 MW offshore wind turbine, China’s Sany Renewable Energy announced a test rig for turbines of up to 35 MW was put into operation at the firm’s wind power testing centre. Sany said that “China’s first and the world’s largest” test bench utilises a […]

  • Vestas Taps NHV for North Sea Offshore Wind Ops

    16 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    NHV Group has been awarded a multi-year contract by Vestas to provide offshore wind operations in the North Sea with the super medium helicopter, the Airbus H175. Under the contract, Belgium’s NHV will provide dedicated crew changes and hoisting operations for the offshore wind industry, starting in April 2025. According to the company, this contract […]

  • Will Trump Venture to Impose ‘No New (Offshore) Wind Turbines’ Policy and Bring US Industry Supporting 120,000 Jobs to Halt?

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

    During his presidential campaign in 2024, Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order to stop offshore wind farms from being built in the US “on day one”. On 7 January, the US president-elect reiterated the plan which now seems to apply to wind energy on land too, saying he would look into implementing […]

  • All Applicants Pre-Qualified for Colombia’s First Offshore Wind Tender

    11 December 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    All companies that submitted applications to participate in Colombia’s first offshore wind tender have been pre-qualified, meeting legal, financial, and technical requirements. The announcement was made on 9 December by Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH). Among the companies included in the preliminary list of qualified bidders are energy giants from Belgium, the UK, Spain, and China, […]

  • GPB Completes Two Substation Topsides for 1.2 GW Baltic Power Offshore Wind Farm

    24 January 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Grupa Przemysłowa Baltic Sp. z o.o. (GPB) has completed the construction of two offshore substation topsides for the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland’s Baltic Sea. Under a contract signed in 2023, GPB manufactured the two offshore substation topsides that will be installed at the Baltic Power site some 23 kilometres off […]

  • Offshore Construction Kicks Off on Poland’s 1.2 GW Baltic Power Wind Farm

    6 February 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore construction has begun on the up to 1.2 GW Baltic Power wind farm, a joint venture between PKN Orlen and Northland Power, with the installation of the first monopiles. Preparatory and trial operations for offshore construction began in January, with several vessels involved, including Van Oord’s heavy-lift ship Svanen. On 6 February, Baltic Power, […]

  • Damen Launches Windcat’s First Hydrogen-Powered CSOV

    14 October 2024
    Vessels

    Windcat’s first Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) has been launched by Damen Shipyards at Ha Long Shipyard in Vietnam. The launch ceremony took place on 12 October in Vietnam, where Damen is constructing all six CSOVs. With this first CSOV in the water, Damen said it will continue with its outfitting and commissioning operations to […]

  • Up to 2.2 GW Maryland Offshore Wind Project Moves Closer to Federal Approval

    30 July 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for US Wind’s Maryland offshore wind project, indicating that the project is nearing the end of the federal review process. BOEM held three public scoping meetings in June 2022 to solicit public input on the environmental review process and […]

  • Deputy Head of Research Unit at EU’s DG Energy: ‘Relying on Targets and Assuming Jobs and Growth Will Follow Does Not Work’

    16 January 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Environment, Planning & Permitting

    Relying only on renewable energy targets and expecting the industry and economic growth would follow “does not work”, Mark van Stiphout, Deputy Head of Unit for Research, Innovation, Competitiveness and Digitalisation at European Commission’s DG Energy, said during a panel session about green growth at Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) in November 2024. Van […]

  • 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 […]

  • Tahkoluoto Offshore Cancels Demo Project, Moves Forward with Full-Scale Development in Finland

    9 January 2025
    Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Tahkoluoto Offshore Oy, the developer of the Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm extension project in Finland, has scrapped plans for a demonstration project that involved the installation of two 15 MW wind turbines. The purpose of the demo phase was to pilot large-scale offshore wind turbines, foundation concepts, and construction methods for deep waters (15-45 metres), […]

  • GE Vernova-Seatrium Consortium Cuts Steel for TenneT’s IJmuiden Ver Beta Offshore Platform

    12 September 2024
    Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    A consortium of GE Vernova and Seatrium has held a steel-cutting ceremony to mark the start of construction work on TenneT’s IJmuiden Ver Beta offshore converter platform, one of the first Dutch 2 GW grid connection projects. The first steel was cut at Seatrium’s Tuas Boulevard shipyard in Singapore. The high voltage direct current (HVDC) […]

  • OEEC 2024: A Lot to Talk About

    24 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Clean Fuels, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Green Hydrogen, Grid Connection, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Ports & Logistics, Power-to-X, Research & Development, Storage, Transition

    In a little more than five years, renewable energy targets set for 2030 will come knocking on the door. Whether they will be reached, missed or overshot, depends on multiple factors, most of which concern policymakers and the energy sector itself. At the end of 2023, the EU increased the binding renewable energy target for […]

  • Equinor Orders Empire Wind 1 Turbines at Vestas

    9 September 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has received an order for 54 of its 15 MW turbines from Equinor for the 810 MW Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project in New York. This is Vestas’s first order for an offshore platform and its V236-15.0 MW turbine in the US, the Denmark-based company says. The firm contract with Equinor follows a […]

  • North Sea Ecosystem Regeneration at Heart of Dutch Govt’s New Program

    7 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting

    Human touch has taken its toll on the delicate North Sea ecosystem. With the growing pressure of climate change and demand for sustainable energy and food, this ecosystem keeps deteriorating. Preventing or preserving the North Sea now has an exclamation point. As a response, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature has […]

  • 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 […]

  • Netherlands Looking at Offshore Hubs and Interconnectors, Where Does Hydrogen Stand?

    20 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Collaboration, Energy Islands, Environment, Green Hydrogen, Grid Connection, Industry, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Offshore Platforms, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Technology, Transition

    Energy islands are no longer being considered in the Netherlands. Instead, the focus has been shifted to offshore energy hubs and interconnectors. With rising (cyber)security concerns as a result of a number of recent incidents in European waters, as well as the Russia-Ukraine war, diversification of the energy system is high on the agenda. Offshore […]

  • OEEC First Offshore Energy Event with Dedicated Nature Enhancement Content Programme, Exhibition Pavilion

    22 November 2024
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Supply Chain

    The Netherlands is a pioneer in including nature enhancement stipulations in offshore (wind) energy tenders. The Dutch event for the international offshore energy and maritime industries, Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC), has also given nature enhancement a prime spot in this year’s edition, including it more prominently in the conference programme and on the […]

  • Maryland Sets Aside USD 4.7 Million to Boost Offshore Wind Workforce

    2 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment, Training & Education

    Maryland Governor Wes Moore has earmarked USD 4.7 million (approximately EUR 4.3 million) in federal funds for training and job placement initiatives to expand the US state’s offshore wind workforce. The funding, made possible through the US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration Good Jobs Challenge, is said to help make Maryland more competitive by […]

  • Offshore Wind Common Goal in Netherlands as 75 Pct of Electricity in 2032 Expected to Come from Wind Farms in Dutch North Sea

    3 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Grid Connection, Industry, Vessels

    In 2032, 75 per cent of all electricity produced in the Netherlands will come from offshore wind as the country will continue powering ahead with permitting and deploying wind farms in its North Sea waters, even with the change of cabinet. This is according to Jan Vos, Chairman of NedZero, who discussed the Dutch offshore […]