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Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed Ocean Wind 1 wind energy project offshore New Jersey. BOEM’s DEIS for the proposed Ocean Wind 1 offshore wind farm analyzes the potential environmental impacts of the proposed action described in Ocean Wind’s project plan for constructing […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Industry, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update
A US federal judge in Boston has barred General Electric (GE) from ‘‘making, using, offering for sale, selling, importing (into), or installing in the United States” the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine after the jury found in June that the wind turbine infringed upon a patent held by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. The jury and Judge […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Norway-based DeepOcean has been awarded a contract to provide subsea services to Vineyard Wind 1, the first utility-scale offshore wind project in the US. Under the contract, DeepOcean will provide a range of subsea services including project management, engineering, ROV, tooling, and survey activities. The company will lead the project out of its office in […]
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Environment, Wind Farm Update
Ocean Winds, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has opened public consultation for the development of its proposed Réalt na Mara wind farm offshore Ireland, for whose Maritime Area Consent (MAC) the developer plans to apply early next year. The first phase of the wind farm’s public consultation started in May and is […]
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Bluepoint Wind is the official name of the offshore wind project that Ocean Winds East (OW East) plans to build in the New York Bight, the developer announced on 15 September. Ocean Winds East, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Engie, won the lease area in Central Bight for USD 765 million this February […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) will shortly launch the next phase of its tenant selection process for the New Jersey Wind Port. This phase will involve seeking offers from Tier 1 wind component manufacturers, such as blades, for an approximately 70-acre parcel of property at the port. The parcel is currently undeveloped but […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Mayflower Wind has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, known as the Building Trades, for the onshore and offshore construction of its 1,200 MW SouthCoast offshore wind project. The MoU includes commitments to create jobs for local and diverse workers and to […]
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Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Wind Farm Update
Geophysical site investigations over Ocean Winds’ proposed Caledonia offshore wind farm site are scheduled to begin next month. UK marine survey specialist Gardline Limited has been contracted to carry out the geophysical survey with its research vessel Ocean Endeavour, deploying fixed and towed sensors. The operations will be conducted on a 24-hour basis, beginning on […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update
The US State of New Jersey has argued that its residents will be ”irreparably harmed” if the 1.1 GW Ocean Wind offshore wind project is not exempt from a permanent injunction against the use of GE Haliade-X wind turbines on offshore wind projects in the USA sought by Siemens Gamesa. Back in June, a jury […]
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Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Crown Estate has confirmed that all three ScotWind Clearing applicants have signed seabed option agreements making their projects ready to move into the development stage. The three projects that made it into the development stage are the 500 MW floating wind farm proposed by Ocean Winds, the 1,800 MW floating wind farm proposed by Mainstream […]
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Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Three more floating offshore wind projects will be offered seabed agreements in Scotland after Crown Estate Scotland completed the clearing process for the ScotWind seabed leasing round. All three will focus on green hydrogen, according to the Scottish seabed manager. The clearing process made available the NE1 area east of Shetland for applicants who met […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Industry, Wind Farm Update
Ocean Winds and Bord na Móna have launched a new offshore wind partnership in Ireland at an event with Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste and Ireland’s Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in Dublin. The long-term, exclusive partnership will see Ocean Winds and Bord na Móna, one of Ireland’s oldest semi-states working at the forefront of energy […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
Ocean Winds has launched OW Brasil, its Brazilian arm working on development opportunities of offshore wind projects in the country, where Ocean Winds has filed for approval to investigate five project sites. As reported earlier in the Premium section on our sister site Offshore Energy, Ocean Winds has submitted applications for environmental permits to the […]
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Authorities, Environment, Wind Farm Update
Ocean Winds has received a positive environmental decision for its BC-Wind offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea, thus completing the environmental impact assessment process for the 400 MW project. The decision was taken by the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection (RDOŚ) in Gdańsk. ”Receiving the environmental decision brings Ocean Winds significantly closer to […]
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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct an environmental review of US Wind’s offshore wind project in Maryland, the first proposed wind energy project offshore the state’s coast and the tenth offshore wind review of this kind initiated under the Biden-Harris administration. The company is proposing to install up to 121 turbines […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Ocean Winds has signed a capacity reservation agreement with the Navantia-Windar consortium to manufacture 62 wind turbine jacket foundations to be built in Fene, La Coruña, Spain for the Dieppe le Tréport wind farm offshore France. This project, which will soon materialise in the form of a contract, is the largest one awarded to Navantia […]
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Vattenfall’s offshore wind-to-hydrogen pilot project in Scotland is moving towards filing consent applications, with a public consultation event set to be held next month and the developer appointing a UK-based consultancy for the metocean design criteria for the project. The Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1) project is said to bring the world its first hydrogen-producing offshore wind […]
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Authorities, Contracts & Tenders
Portugal will offer 10 GW of capacity through the country’s first offshore wind auction expected to take place in 2023, according to Portugal’s Environment Minister Duarte Cordeiro. Portugal had originally planned to offer between 6 GW and 8 GW of offshore wind capacity in the first auction. The increase in the capacity target is part […]
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Business & Finance, Vessels
“K” Line Wind Service and Penta-Ocean Construction (POC) have entered into an agreement on future collaboration on vessel management in the offshore wind sector. Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the companies plan to draw on their expertise in each respective area and management resources to collaborate on the management (operation, maintenance and crewing) of […]
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Contracts & Tenders, R&D, Wind Farm Update
Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture between RWE Renewables and National Grid, has awarded Fugro an offshore survey contract to support site appraisal and concept design activities in the New York Bight. Operating from a local port, Fugro is dedicating two vessels to the project. Survey teams will utilise hull-mounted sensors to generate full-coverage surface […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Ørsted and PSEG, the developers of the 1.1 GW Ocean Wind 1 offshore wind farm in New Jersey, have awarded engineering, procurement, and construction contracts for the project’s onshore transmission system to JINGOLI Power and Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company. The contracts include the installation of two high voltage substations and around nine miles (14 […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection
Anbaric Development Partners has released a Notice of Solicitation for offshore wind developers with projects in the New York Bight who wish to deliver energy and renewable energy credits into the New York State Bulk Power System via the transmission facility Juno Power Express. The US electric transmission system developer wants to join forces with developers […]
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The European Commission has selected Technip Energies, X1 Wind and a consortium of ten international entities to deliver the NextFloat project, a programme accelerating industrial-scale floating wind as part of which the partners will test a 6 MW floating wind platform offshore France. Together with Technip Energies and X1 Wind, the consortium members are: Naturgy, […]
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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy and Management (BOEM) has issued the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Empire Wind offshore wind projects, being developed by Equinor and BP in New York. The DEIS encompasses the Empire Wind 1 and Empire Wind 2 offshore wind farms that are proposed to be built in waters […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
Korea Floating Wind (KF Wind) has signed a Joint Development Agreement Term Sheet with Korea East-West Power, a state-owned generation company in Korea, for a collaboration on the development of floating offshore wind sites off the coast of Ulsan. As reported, KF Wind, a joint venture between OW Ocean Winds and Aker Offshore Wind, is […]
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The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has identified eight draft Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) offshore North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, which will now be put up for public review and comment. The areas cover approximately 1.7 million acres and represent a subset of the 3.9 million acres of the Call Area […]
