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  • Dominion Trying to Cut Virginia OWF Cost

    21 July 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Dominion Resources, the developer of an offshore wind project proposed to be installed off the coast of Virginia, USA, met with industry experts, academics, and others involved in the offshore wind sector to find a way to bring down the cost of its project, Richmond Times-Dispatch news site reported. In April, the company announced that it had […]

  • USA: BOEM to Lease Area Offshore Virginia for Wind Energy Development

    23 July 2013
    Authorities

    As part of President Obama’s comprehensive plan to move economy toward domestic clean energy sources and begin to slow the effects of climate change, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau announced that BOEM will hold its second competitive lease sale for renewable energy on […]

  • US DOE Launches LiDAR Buoy Loan Program

    25 January 2017
    Authorities, R&D, Technology

    The US Department of Energy (DOE) has implemented a loan program to lend its LiDAR buoys to qualified parties to acquire wind resource characterization data in areas of interest for offshore wind energy development. DOE currently owns two AXYS WindSentinel buoys that collect meteorological and oceanographic data to support resource characterization for offshore wind energy. In […]

  • Scientists Carry Out Ocean Floor Mapping for OW Development in North Carolina

    26 June 2014
    Authorities, R&D

    U.S. scientists recently embarked on a mission to map the ocean floor off the coast of North Carolina.  The new data aims to find areas that would be ideal for wind farms with minimal impacts to sensitive fish habitats and ocean resources. This comes after the federal government allocated funds for wind energy projects off […]

  • Sierra Releases Statement Regarding DOI’s Offshore Wind Announcement (USA)

    3 February 2012

    Yesterday the Department of the Interior released its environmental assessment of offshore wind sites along the Mid-Atlantic coast. The DOI found that these sites would create no significant impact to the environment, paving the way for accelerated wind energy development off the coasts of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. In response, Vanessa Pierce, Eastern […]

  • USA: Dominion Gets Final Approval for Offshore Wind Project

    9 October 2013

    After winning the lease for 112,800 acres of federal land off the coast of Virginia to develop an offshore wind turbine farm last month, Dominion Virginia Power has received final approval for the project, writes the Associated Press. The bid was submitted to the U.S. Justice Department for a review, to which they had no […]

  • WindSentinel’s Virginia Offshore Wind Data Now Available

    19 July 2016
    Authorities, R&D

    A WindSentinel buoy that has been gathering offshore wind data off Virginia Beach, Virginia, has ended its 19-month deployment and collected a wealth of information, which forms the first publicly accessible database to help improve offshore wind development. The AXYS’ WindSentinel buoy, one of the two commissioned by the U.S. Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), recorded data […]

  • Timmons Adds AXYS to Its Team

    8 April 2014

    Timmons Group chose  AXYS Technologies Inc (AXYS) to become a member of its team recently awarded a research project funded by the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) to explore new methods of metocean and offshore environmental monitoring. Governor Terry McAuliffe announced on March 26, 2014 that the Timmons Group proposal was one of […]

  • USA: New Business Coalition Formed to Advance Wind Industry in the Southeast

    26 September 2012

    A new regional coalition was announced September 20, 2012, that will focus on advancing the coastal and offshore wind industry in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. The Southeastern Coastal Wind Coalition will explore opportunities for regional collaboration among both the public and private sectors, including a focus on ways to grow the wind industry […]

  • Dominion Wins Grant to Work on Cost Reduction of Offshore Wind Electricity (USA)

    19 September 2011
    Business & Finance, R&D

      Dominion has received a two-year, $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to look for ways to reduce the cost of offshore wind electricity generation by at least 25 percent. “One of the biggest challenges to off-shore wind generation is bringing down the cost so it can be more competitive with other forms […]

  • Three US States Form Offshore Wind Pact

    29 October 2020
    Authorities

    Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia have partnered to advance offshore wind projects in the region and promote the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic United States as a hub for offshore wind energy and industry. The creation of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Regional Transformative Partnership for Offshore Wind Energy Resources (SMART-POWER) is said to provide a framework for […]

  • Lease Sale Brings America Closer to Offshore Wind Revolution

    3 December 2012
    Authorities

    The Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee, Edward J. Markey, commented the Interior Department’s announcement of the first-ever competitive lease sales for renewable energy development in federal waters offshore. The lease sales, to be held next year, will offer some of the nation’s best offshore wind resources in one area identified off the coast […]

  • K2 Management Engaged in Virginia Offshore Wind

    23 May 2016

    K2 Management has been hired as an independent external expert and offshore wind technical advisor for the Virginia Offshore Wind Technology Advancement Project (VOWTAP). The company started working on VOWTAP in the second half of 2015, and is still supporting the project to some extent. Work has been focused on reviewing and re-scoping of contracts, validation of tenders, and […]

  • Massachusetts: Ørsted Dusts Itself Off and Looks at Next Solicitations

    24 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted and its joint venture partner Eversource will continue progressing the Bay State Wind project towards the next solicitations in New England and New York, Ørsted’s Executive Vice President Martin Neubert said after the project was not selected under the 83C solicitation in Massachusetts.

  • Fugro Bags Two Ørsted Contracts in US

    1 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Environment, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro has won contracts by Ørsted to undertake geotechnical investigations at Bay State Wind and Ocean Wind offshore wind farms in the United States.

  • U.S. Virgin Islands Could Soon See 10.5 MW Offshore Wind Farm

    1 July 2013
    Authorities, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The U.S. Virgin Islands Public Services Commission approved recognition of offshore wind developer Ocean Offshore Energy, LLC as a public utility on Thursday, June 27, Virgin Islands Daily News reports. This decision has opened the way for the development of an offshore wind farm off the coast of St. Thomas, for which the company had […]

  • Consortium Develops First US Offshore Wind Test Centre

    13 October 2011

      The first North American offshore wind turbine test centre has started development, off the eastern Atlantic shore of the US state of Virginia, by a consortium of Ecofys, Fugro and Real NewEnergy. The project, Poseidon Atlantic, has come about through collaboration between the Commonwealth of Virginia, Northampton County and the Virginia Port Authority with […]

  • Synced Approach to Help US Coastal States Reach Offshore Wind Targets, PJM Study Finds

    20 October 2021
    Grid Connection, R&D

    US regional transmission system operator (TSO) PJM Interconnection has published the Phase 1 results of a study into offshore transmission options to deliver offshore wind electricity to coastal states from their soon-to-be-built offshore wind farms. According to the first results of the study, undertaken together with state agencies to identify solutions across the PJM footprint, […]

  • AXYS Technologies to Showcase at All-Energy 2014

    15 May 2014
    Technology

    AXYS Technologies will be exhibiting with its partner Planet Ocean Ltd at the All-Energy Exhibition and Conference from May 21-22 in Aberdeen, UK. The companies will be located at stand A81, where the visitors can meet the team and learn about their offshore renewable energy monitoring platforms. AXYS has been chosen by the Timmons Group as a member […]

  • Dominion in Top 10 U.S. Utilities for Economic Development

    16 September 2015
    Business & Finance

     Site Selection magazine has named Dominion as one of the U.S. top 10 utilities for economic development. The publication cites that Dominion’s economic development team helped bring more than $2.7 billion in corporate facility investments supporting 3,615 new jobs in its footprint last year. The growing list of data center sites, renewable energy initiatives such as […]

  • US Northeast Wind Resource Center Updates Offshore Wind Hub

    28 December 2016
    R&D, Training & Education

    Northeast Wind Resource Center has updated the Offshore Wind Hub, a virtual resource library containing federal and state reports and documents on legislation, assessments, and policy related to offshore wind in the United States, from Maine south to Georgia. The Offshore Wind Hub now contains state summaries for Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. The updated […]

  • Wind Energy Research to Be Discussed in North Carolina

    17 July 2014
    R&D, Technology

    On July 24th, in Charlotte, N.C., the Southeastern Coastal Wind Coalition will convene key stakeholders for a working session to discuss Wind Energy Resource Assessment and Data Collection in the Southeast. Experts from industry, national labs, and universities will explore wind energy resource assessment efforts related to coastal and offshore wind in the region, determine […]

  • Iberdrola Plans to Increase Kitty Hawk Capacity to 3.5 GW

    26 October 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Iberdrola plans to increase the total capacity of the Kitty Hawk offshore wind development, located off North Carolina, from 2.5 GW to 3.5 GW. The decision to raise the capacity comes “as the current turbine technology allows to increase the capacity potential of the leased area”, the Spanish renewable energy developer which owns the US-based […]

  • Secretary Salazar Streamlines Offshore Wind Applications Along Atlantic Coast (USA)

    3 February 2012

    Echoing President Obama’s State of the Union call for an “all of the above” energy strategy, the Department of the Interior marked a major milestone for offshore wind energy along the Atlantic coast. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau announced that the department’s renewable […]

  • USA: Assateague Island against Offshore Wind Power Transmission

    7 September 2012
    Environment, Grid Connection

    Residents of Assateague Island are opposing the power transmission project which would deliver offshore wind energy from future projects built off the coasts of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. According to DelmarvaNow news site, Ocean City attorney Hugh Cropper IV wrote to Atlantic Wind Connection on behalf of some of the residents, saying that […]

  • Clean Line Energy Joins SECWC

    11 September 2014

    The Southeastern Coastal Wind Coalition (SECWC) announced that Clean Line Energy joined as its newest Board Member. Clean Line joins a great group of companies already represented on its Board: Fishermen’s Energy, Iberdrola Renewables, Marsh USA, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, Southface, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and Southern Company. Clean Line develops transmission projects that connect […]