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  • Ten Most Read News on OffshoreWIND.biz in 2023

    1 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Industry, Operations & Maintenance, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Updates on wind turbine technology and new offshore wind projects, including those facing major challenges, marked 2023 on offshoreWIND.biz. In the article below, we have compiled our ten most-read news last year, together with some of their related updates and stories. In February 2023, Vestas revealed plans to scale up a new chemical process that […]

  • Dogger Bank A May Not Be Fully Operational Until 2025, SSE Says

    8 February 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Dogger Bank A, the first of the three phases of the UK’s Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s biggest offshore wind farm under construction, may not be fully operational until 2025, developer SSE said on 8 February. The 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm is being constructed in UK waters some 130 kilometres off the […]

  • Offshore Wind: Both Challenges and Enormous Opportunities Lie Ahead

    8 January 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Industry, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Power-to-X, R&D, Supply Chain, Transition

    The offshore wind industry has faced significant headwinds in the past couple of years, with most of the negative effects tracing their origin back to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the geopolitical turmoil caused by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. This has led to supply chain instability and cost inflation which has resulted in […]

  • Longitude Engineering Designing Offshore Charging-Capable Electric SOV for Bibby Marine-Led Consortium

    18 January 2024
    Industry, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain, Vessels

    A consortium led by Bibby Marine, which is working on bringing a zero-emission electric service operation vessel (eSOV) to the UK and European offshore wind markets, has contracted Longitude Engineering, a UK-based engineering consultancy and ship design firm, to design the new SOV. Bibby Marine announced the company and its consortium partners Port of Aberdeen, […]

  • Lithuania Shelves Second Offshore Wind Tender

    18 April 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Lithuania’s National Energy Regulatory Council (NERC) has discontinued the second tender for a 700 megawatt (MW) offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea after receiving only one bid. The Law on Renewable Energy stipulates that there must be at least two tenderers for a tender to take place, Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy said. ”As Lithuania […]

  • Vestas, Edda Wind Pen SOV Charter Agreement

    22 September 2023
    Vessels

    Norwegian owner and operator of vessels serving the offshore wind industry, Edda Wind, has secured a charter agreement with Vestas for its service operation vessel (SOV) Edda Passat. The SOV has operated for Ørsted at Race Bank offshore wind farm since it was built in 2018 and its charter is expiring next month. The new agreement with Vestas will […]

  • Clarksons Seminar Shares Positive Prospects for the Offshore Wind Industry

    20 October 2023
    Business development, Contribution, Industry, Market Outlooks, Supply Chain, Training & Education, Wind Turbines

    Industry experts convene at Clarksons HQ to address challenges and explore opportunities amid turbulent times. Clarksons Securities, Clarksons Offshore & Renewables, and Green Giraffe Advisory jointly hosted the “Offshore Wind Investment: Mind The Gap” seminar at Clarksons’ headquarters in London. The event brought together key stakeholders, including investors, developers, and suppliers, to provide valuable insights […]

  • Mingyang to Supply 6.5 MW Turbines for Wind Project Offshore South Korea

    29 November 2023
    Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    China’s Mingyang Smart Energy, in collaboration with Unison, has secured an order from Woori Technology to supply wind turbines for the Aphae offshore wind project in South Korea. According to Mingyang Smart Energy, the company will supply 13 6.5 MW wind turbines for the 80 MW offshore wind project. The units will be locally manufactured […]

  • Japan Awards Fourth Site from 2023 Tender to JRE-Iberdrola-Tohoku Consortium

    26 March 2024
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    A consortium comprising Japan Renewable Energy Corporation (JRE), Iberdrola, and Tohoku Electric Power has secured the fourth site in Japan’s latest offshore wind tender. Three of the four sites put up for auction were awarded in December 2023, when the government said the results for the fourth site would be announced in March this year. […]

  • APT Delivers Sea Fastening Systems for One of Biggest Offshore Wind Installation Vessels

    7 December 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Dubai-based vessel equipment and service provider, APT Global Marine and Offshore Engineering UAE, has fitted Jan De Nul’s installation vessel Voltaire with sea fastening systems under one of its latest contracts in the offshore wind industry, which now account for the majority of the revenue for the UAE company that previously did most of its […]

  • Romania Adopts Offshore Wind Bill, Plans to Have First Project Up and Running by 2032

    11 April 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Romania’s Chamber of Deputies has adopted the Offshore Wind Energy Bill proposed by the Ministry of Energy, setting the country on the path to having its first offshore wind project built by 2032. Within three months from the date the new law enters into force, the Ministry of Energy will conduct a study which will […]

  • 2024 Installation Campaign Starts at Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm

    22 March 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The construction of the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan resumes with the 2024 installation campaign now underway, according to Skyborn Renewables, which expects to have the 640 MW project completed this year. “We’re back in full swing and have installed this season’s first monopile just a few days ago. The monopile installation will continue […]

  • Newfoundland and Labrador to Gain More Control Over Offshore Wind Projects Under New MoU

    7 December 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, and Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Andrew Furey, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on offshore wind to enable Newfoundland and Labrador to take the regulatory lead on offshore wind projects within its inland bays. The MoU is said to enable the development of offshore […]

  • K2 Management Publishes Offshore Wind Energy Yield Study, Warns About ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Approach to Assessment

    11 December 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, R&D, Research & Development

    As more countries climb the offshore wind map and, at the same time, the industry is facing uncertainties, energy yield assessment needs to be validated as widely as possible across diverse geographies, rather than assume the efficacy of a one-size-fits-all approach, according to K2 Management (K2M). The project advisory and engineering consultancy has published ‘Offshore […]

  • US Energy Company Braces for USD 1.6 Billion Offshore Wind Impairment Charge

    9 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Fixed-Bottom, Industry, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project Updates, Supply Chain

    Eversource Energy expects to record an impairment charge of between USD 1.4 billion and USD 1.6 billion related to three offshore wind projects in the United States the company owns in partnership with Ørsted. The New England utility is currently in the process of divesting its 50 per cent ownership interest in three offshore wind […]

  • Europe’s First Commercial-Scale Floating Offshore Wind Farm Secures All Planning Approvals

    22 April 2024
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, a joint venture between Plenitude (Eni) and HitecVision, have obtained the offshore planning approval for the Green Volt floating wind farm offshore Scotland. With onshore consent announced earlier this month, Green Volt has now received all its planning approvals and remains on track to be the first commercial-scale floating offshore wind […]

  • 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 […]

  • Ørsted’s US, Taiwan Offshore Wind Projects Hit by Vessel Shortages; Sunrise Wind Still Not Out of the Woods

    6 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Several days ago, Ørsted called it quits on the Ocean Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the US, with some of the main issues leading to the decision to abandon the project being supply chain bottlenecks, primarily vessel shortages. This has affected not only the now-dropped Ocean Wind 1 but also the company’s Revolution Wind […]

  • UK Industry Bodies Release Offshore Wind Industrial Growth Plan

    19 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Industry, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Supply Chain, Transition

    RenewableUK, the Offshore Wind Industry Council, The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland have published an Industrial Growth Plan, setting out how to triple offshore wind manufacturing capacity over the next ten years in the UK. The UK offshore wind industry already employs 32,000 people and each new large offshore wind farm adds GBP 2-3 […]

  • ORLEN Group Secures Licences for Five Offshore Wind Sites in Poland

    4 October 2023
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting

    The ORLEN Group has received the Minister of Infrastructure’s final decision awarding licences for five new offshore wind farm development sites in the Polish Baltic Sea. The decision marks the initiation of the project’s preparatory phase. The ORLEN Group’s forthcoming five offshore farms are planned to have a capacity of approximately 5.2 GW, generating sufficient […]

  • Parkwind Teams Up with New Zealand Power Company to Explore Joint Offshore Wind Development

    12 October 2023
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    New Zealand power generation company Meridian Energy and Belgian offshore wind developer Parkwind have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which they will explore joint development of offshore wind projects in New Zealand, primarily off the Taranaki coast. In April 2022, the Belgium-based developer revealed that it had appointed a country manager for Aotearoa […]

  • Financial Close Reached for Taiwanese Offshore Wind Farm

    28 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The 1 GW Hai Long offshore wind project in Taiwan, being developed jointly by Northland Power and Mitsui & Co., has reached financial close for its 20-year TWD 117 billion (about EUR 3.4 billion) non-recourse green financing. According to Northland Power, the TWD 117 billion debt amount at closing changed from the TWD 118 billion […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Testing 115-Metre-Long Wind Turbine Blade on Blaest’s New Test Rig

    29 September 2023
    Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, R&D, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Turbines

    The wind turbine blade test centre Blaest in Aalborg, Denmark, inaugurated a new test rig on 26 September, in which the centre decided to invest after entering an agreement with Siemens Gamesa to test the company’s current range of offshore blades. The first blade is already being put through paces on the new test rig […]

  • Ørsted Awards Secondary Steel Contract for New Jersey’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    21 September 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Foundations, Jobs & Recruitment, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Riggs Distler, a subsidiary of infrastructure company Centuri Group, has been selected as a tier 1 secondary steel contractor for 1.1 GW Ocean Wind 1, New Jersey’s first offshore wind project. Riggs Distler will provide onshore heavy civil, mechanical, and electrical services focused on the construction, assembly, inspection, and onshore installation of advanced foundation components. […]

  • Geotechnical Investigation Contract Awarded for 3 GW Scottish Floating Wind Project

    20 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Project Updates, Supply Chain

    Geoquip Marine has secured a contract to gather engineering data to support a proposed floating offshore wind project in Scotland that is being developed by ScottishPower and Shell. To support the MarramWind project, Geoquip Marine is set to perform a complete geotechnical investigation to gather soil and geotechnical data for developing an engineering ground model. According to […]

  • New Partnership to Extract Rare Earth Magnets from Retired Wind Turbines for Use in New Ones

    12 September 2023
    Business development, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Manufacturing, Wind Turbines

    Sustainable materials specialist, EMR, rare earth magnetic materials recycling company, HyProMag, Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, Magnomatics, and the University of Birmingham have formed a partnership which will focus on extracting the rare earth magnets from end-of-life wind turbines and enabling their use in new wind turbines, both onshore and offshore. Named Re-Rewind, the partnership, […]