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  • BW Ideol Receives DNV Certification for 15+ MW Floating Wind Platform

    21 May 2025
    Floating Wind, Foundations, Supply Chain, Technology

    DNV has awarded the basic design certificate to BW Ideol for its floating wind platform that can support wind turbines with an output of 15 MW and beyond. BW Ideol says this certification marks a key milestone in the company’s industrial roadmap and confirms the technical soundness of the platform, which is designed for large-scale […]

  • Global Underwater Hub, Scottish Enterprise Team Up to Support Floating Wind Supply Chain

    19 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind, Industry, Supply Chain

    Global Underwater Hub (GUH) and Scottish Enterprise have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on establishing a subsea supply chain ecosystem as a global centre of excellence for floating wind. The partners said on 18 February that the floating wind market was estimated to be worth GBP 1 trillion (approximately EUR 1.2 trillion) […]

  • Celtic Sea Floating Wind Seabed Leasing Round Moves to Final Stage

    7 April 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    On 7 April, The Crown Estate announced that the plans for a new generation of floating wind farms off the coasts of Wales and South West England moved a step closer as the leasing round for three sites in the Celtic Sea entered its final stages. Additionally, the companies bidding to build the projects shortlisted […]

  • Onshore Consent Application for 1 GW Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Farm Approved

    20 June 2025
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The onshore consent application for the up to 1 GW Muir Mhòr floating offshore wind farm has been approved by the Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland. The application covers the floating wind farm’s onshore infrastructure, including underground cabling and a substation. The wind farm is the first fully floating project from the ScotWind leasing process to […]

  • Japan Opens Exclusive Economic Zone for Offshore Wind

    4 June 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    A new bill passed by Japan’s House of Representatives on 3 June will enable offshore wind projects to be built in the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), beyond the 22-kilometre (12-nautical-mile) line of Japan’s territorial waters. The bill, which was approved by the House of Councillors on 11 April, amends the existing Act on Promotion […]

  • Buchan Floating Offshore Wind Project Wraps Up Metocean Campaign in Scotland

    3 February 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, Research & Development

    The metocean and LiDAR surveys have been completed at the Buchan floating offshore wind farm site located off the northeast coast of Scotland. Partrac recently recovered the project LiDAR and seabed instrumentation at the project site some 75 kilometres northeast of Fraserburgh on the Aberdeenshire coast. The two-year metocean and floating LiDAR campaign has seen […]

  • Equinor Selects Ekwil’s Semi-Submersible Floating Foundation for South Korean Project

    19 June 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Foundations, Supply Chain

    Equinor has selected Ekwil’s INOC semi-submersible floating foundation technology for its 750 MW Firefly/Bandibuli floating offshore wind project in South Korea. The project builds on early design work initiated in 2022 through the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) delivered by Technip Energies and Inocean. Engineered to support Siemens Gamesa’s 15 MW turbines, the INOC semi-submersible floating […]

  • CRRC Installs ‘World’s Largest’ Floating Offshore Wind Turbine in China

    20 January 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    Chinese state-owned CRRC has installed what the company claims to be the world’s largest floating offshore wind turbine in the Shandong Province. On 11 January, the company installed the 20 MW Qihang floating offshore wind turbine prototype at the Dongying wind power testing and certification innovation base in Shandong. CRRC said this marks an important […]

  • Haventus, Sarens PSG Unveil ‘On-Land to Launch’ Floating Wind Solution

    14 May 2025
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    UK companies Haventus and Sarens PSG have developed a low-cost solution for the integration and launch of floating offshore wind turbines. Haventus said that it is working to enable offshore wind project developers to acquire fully assembled floating bases and turbines at Ardersier, Scotland, as well as providing dry storage which does not require complex […]

  • BlueFloat, Nadara Wrap Up Site Surveys for Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Farms

    14 May 2025
    Floating Wind, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The partnership between BlueFloat Energy and Nadara has completed two-year wind and metocean monitoring campaigns at its Broadshore Hub and Bellrock floating offshore wind farm sites in Scotland. The campaigns involved the deployment of EOLOS’ FLS200 floating LiDAR buoys at the Broadshore Hub site, located 50 kilometres north of Fraserburgh, and the Bellrock site, situated […]

  • Gazelle Cleared to Use Portuguese Site for Floating Wind Demo Project

    11 April 2025
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Foundations, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Gazelle Wind Power has received authorisation to use a site off the coast of Aguçadoura, Portugal, for its 2 MW Nau Azul floating wind demonstrator project. The project site previously hosted WindFloat 1, one of Europe’s earliest floating wind pilot projects. The Dublin-based floating wind technology company was issued a 10-year TUPEM (Titulo de Utilizacao Privativa do […]

  • Consortium Unveils Plans for Floating Offshore Wind Pilot Project in Brazil

    17 June 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, Research & Development, Technology

    A consortium led by Japan Blue Energy (JB Energy) has unveiled plans for what they say is Brazil’s first floating offshore wind pilot project in the waters off Rio Grande do Sul. A letter of intent was signed by Sindienergia-RS, Portos RS, JB Energy, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Mingyang Energy, Technomar, […]

  • Floating LiDAR Campaign Completed for NZ Super Fund and CIP’s New Zealand Wind Project

    11 March 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    France-based Akrocean has completed the Floating LiDAR campaign for the proposed 1 GW offshore wind farm in Taranaki, New Zealand, developed by a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and NZ Super Fund. On 11 March, Akrocean announced the completion of its Floating LiDAR turnkey service for Taranaki Offshore Partnership (TOP) in New Zealand, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Work Starting on Kishorn Port’s Upgrade to House Floating Wind Foundation Manufacturing

    13 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Floating Wind, Foundations, Ports & Logistics, Supply Chain

    Construction work is scheduled to start on 16 June on the expansion of Kishorn Port, which will increase the size of the dry dock and reclaim land to create capacity at the Scottish port for the manufacture of concrete floating offshore wind foundations. The upgrade will enable the port to provide full integration, with laydown, […]

  • Offshore Solar Farm Ready for Tow Out to Hollandse Kust Noord Wind Project

    27 June 2025
    Business development, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project Updates, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    What is described as the “world’s first” offshore solar farm integrated within a wind farm has completed assembly at the Port of Amsterdam and is ready for deployment at the Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Dutch company Oceans of Energy assembled the floating solar farm in three days. The system will […]

  • First Offshore Wind-Focused Auction Launched in Philippines

    12 June 2025
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) has launched its Fifth Green Energy Auction (GEA-5), the first to focus exclusively on offshore wind, offering 3,300 MW of fixed-bottom offshore wind capacity. Energy delivery from the auctioned offshore wind projects is planned to start from 2028 through 2030. GEA-5 forms part of the DOE’s broader strategy to […]

  • Hanwha Ocean’s 15 MW Floating Wind Platform Gets ABS Approval in Principle

    9 July 2025
    Floating Wind, Foundations, Supply Chain, Technology

    ABS has issued an Approval in Principle (AIP) to Hanwha Ocean for its semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine design, named WindHive 15-H3, which can support 15 MW wind turbines. The AiP from ABS follows the Approval in Principle that the South Korean company secured for its floater from DNV at the beginning of this year. The […]

  • Offtake Talks Paused for Gulf of Maine Floating Offshore Wind Project

    2 April 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The US Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) has approved Pine Tree Offshore Wind’s request to suspend offtake negotiations for the Gulf of Maine’s first floating offshore wind research array. Pine Tree Offshore Wind, a consortium comprising researchers from the University of Maine, the State of Maine, and Diamond Offshore Wind joint venture, asked to suspend […]

  • Benthic Survey Wraps Up for Scottish Floating Wind Farm

    3 July 2025
    Business development, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Specialist contractors have completed a benthic survey along a 420-kilometre stretch of seabed for the proposed Ossian floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. The month-long benthic campaign gathered information at 122 different sites along the route that will be used to export renewable energy from the Ossian floating offshore wind farm off the east coast […]

  • Gazelle Secures New Funding for 2 MW Floating Wind Demo Project

    29 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Floating Wind, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    Gazelle Wind Power has secured an investment for business growth and the development of its 2 MW floating wind demonstrator project in Portugal. The EUR 2 million investment was closed with Banco Português de Fomento (BPF) through the Deal-by-Deal Co-Investment Programme, in partnership with Indico Capital Partners. According to BPF, the investment will allow Gazelle […]

  • Italy’s Ports of Augusta, Taranto to Become Offshore Wind Hubs

    10 July 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Planning & Permitting, Ports & Logistics

    A decree has been approved by the Italian government to establish offshore wind manufacturing and assembly hubs at the ports of Augusta and Taranto. The total investment amounts to EUR 78.3 million, to be distributed over three years starting in 2025. Funding will come from the reallocation of revenues generated by CO2 emission allowance auctions. […]

  • Reducing cost and risk in floating offshore wind asset integrity monitoring

    10 March 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Offshore windfarm projects currently in development present unique business challenges, even for experienced developers and operators. Newer sites are increasingly:1) far from shore, in harsher metocean conditions,2) spread over large areas, and3) utilising floating structures. Floating turbines, which use mooring line systems to connect to anchors, exhibit the greatest challenges. The lines are vulnerable to […]

  • Norway brings marine operations expertise to Japanese floating wind

    9 February 2025
    Business development, Collaboration, Contribution, Floating Wind, Industry, Outlook & Strategy, Training & Education, Transition

    When it comes to floating offshore wind, Norway and Japan are an ideal match for business collaboration. While Norway is the global leader in floating wind energy, Japan has high ambitions to develop its own floating offshore wind industry. “With unique expertise in marine operations, Norwegian companies are ideally suited to help Japan develop its […]

  • OWC, Empire Engineering Win Work on TWP’s Scottish Offshore Wind Farms

    5 June 2025
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    Renewable energy consultancy OWC and Empire Engineering have been selected to provide owner’s engineering services for the 1 GW Ayre and 1 GW Bowdun offshore wind farms in Scotland. The companies will support Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a consortium of DEME, Qair, and Aspiravi, from concept selection through to further design phases. OWC will act […]

  • 18 GW of New Offshore Wind Could Be Developed Off Ireland’s Coast

    28 May 2025
    Authorities, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    Ireland’s Department of Environment, Climate and Communications has released the Offshore Wind Technical Resource Assessment, providing detailed analysis and recommendations that estimate an additional 3.5 GW to 18 GW of fixed-bottom offshore wind could be developed around the country’s coast. The assessment concludes that there could be an additional 3.5-18 GW of fixed-bottom offshore wind […]