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  • TotalEnergies Trims Its Share in Scotland’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm for EUR 602 Million

    22 December 2023
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    TotalEnergies has decided to sell a 25.5 per cent equity stake in Seagreen, Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, in a GBP 522 million (about EUR 602 million) deal with Thailand’s national oil and gas company PTTEP. Following this farm down, TotalEnergies retains 25.5 per cent of Seagreen, alongside PTTEP (25.5 per cent), and SSE Renewables […]

  • 2.6 GW US Offshore Wind Farm Receives Final Federal Permit, Monopile Installation to Start in May

    16 April 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project has received an air quality permit from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – the final federal permit required to begin offshore construction. The installation of monopiles at the project site off the coast of Virginia Beach is scheduled to begin in May. Belgian offshore […]

  • Transmission Capital Partners Buys Moray East Link

    23 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    Moray East Offshore Wind Farm, a joint venture between Ocean Winds, Diamond Green Limited, and China Three Gorges, has concluded the transfer of its transmission assets to Transmission Capital Partners (TCP), a consortium comprising Transmission Investment, Amber Infrastructure, and INPP. The transmission assets include a 220 kV 3-cable connection to the Moray East Wind Farm […]

  • New York’s First Offshore Wind Farm Completed

    22 February 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The twelfth and final wind turbine has been installed at South Fork Wind, New York’s first offshore wind farm. A couple of days ago, South Fork Wind, the joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource Energy, said via social media that the final wind turbine set sail to the project site from the State Pier Terminal in New […]

  • First Coastal Virginia Transition Pieces Begin Journey to US

    29 April 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first transition pieces (TPs) for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project have been loaded onto the heavy load carrier, Sun Rise, and are en route to the US East Coast. On 24 April, MV Sun Rise left the quayside of CS WIND Offshore (previously known as Bladt Industries) in Aalborg, […]

  • Hollandse Kust Noord Wind Turbine Installation in Home Stretch

    3 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    66 out of 69 wind turbines have been installed at the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm will feature 69 Siemens Gamesa’s SG 11.0-200 DD wind turbines. The first unit was installed in April this year by the jack-up Seajacks Scylla. […]

  • US Publishes Draft Bill to Boost Offshore Wind

    12 January 2024
    Business development, Industry, Research & Development

    Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has released a draft version of a bill that would streamline the offshore wind development process and get new sources of affordable clean energy on the grid. Senator Whitehouse requests feedback on his bill from all stakeholders, including federal, state, and local agencies, industries, developers, and communities. The Senator released […]

  • India Launches 4 GW Offshore Wind Tender

    5 February 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The Government of India has invited bids for the development of offshore wind of a total capacity of 4 GW off the coast of Tamil Nadu. The bids invited are for four blocks of 1 GW each on an open access basis, for the development of offshore wind projects off the coast of Tamil Nadu, […]

  • EDF Renewables, MOL Ink Offshore Wind and Green Hydrogen MoU

    4 October 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Japan-based Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and EDF Renewables have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate on offshore wind and green hydrogen business development. With this MoU, both partners agree to collaborate and bring together their respective and complementary knowledge and experience in offshore wind energy as well as in green hydrogen solutions. “As […]

  • OX2 Pushes Ahead with 400 MW Swedish Offshore Wind Project

    10 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    OX2 and its partner Ingka Investments have signed a cooperation agreement with the Swedish electric power distribution company, Ellevio, and submitted applications for connection of the Galene offshore wind farm in Sweden. The 400 MW Galene, the northern part of the 1.7 GW Galatea-Galene project, will be built about 21 kilometres west of Varberg and […]

  • UKEF Backs 1 GW Hai Long Offshore Wind Project with GBP 380 Million

    9 November 2023
    Business & Finance

    UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK Government’s export credit agency, has guaranteed GBP 380 million (approximately EUR 436 million) in financing for the 1 GW Hai Long offshore wind project in Taiwan. The contribution is said to support a project finance package of over GBP 3 billion issued by more than 15 lenders to the […]

  • US Issues Clean Air Permit for 2.1 GW Empire Wind

    16 February 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Clean Air Act permit to Empire Offshore Wind, owned by Equinor. The air quality analysis, conducted by EPA, showed that the impacts on air quality from the construction and operation of the offshore wind project will not cause or contribute to a violation of federal air […]

  • Part of Damaged Blade MIA at Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm

    9 January 2024
    Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    [This article was last updated on 10 January following a statement received from RWE.] A part of a blade from one of the wind turbines at the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm in the UK has broken off after the wind turbine blade sustained damage. According to information in a Notice to Mariners from Humber […]

  • US Finalizes Rule to Streamline Offshore Renewable Energy Development

    25 April 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have finalized updated regulations for renewable energy development on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The final rule is said to increase certainty and reduce the costs related to the deployment of offshore wind projects by modernising regulations, […]

  • Empire Wind 1 Cleared to Start Construction

    23 February 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has approved the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for Equinor’s Empire Wind offshore wind project in New York, the US. With this approval secured, the developer is planning to start the construction of Empire Wind 1 later this year. The approved plan includes the construction and operation […]

  • First German Zero-Subsidy Offshore Wind Farm Starts Taking Shape

    13 December 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore installation work has started at the 913 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3, the first subsidy-free offshore wind farm in Germany to reach this development phase, Ørsted, the developer of the project, said. The first of the 83 monopile foundations have now been installed at the site some 53 kilometres off the island of Borkum in […]

  • IKEA Owner Continues Acquisition Spree, Buys Stake in OX2 Swedish Offshore Wind Projects

    29 November 2023
    Business & Finance

    OX2 has agreed with Ingka Investments, the investment arm of Ingka Group, the biggest IKEA retailer, to sell a 49 per cent stake in next-generation Swedish offshore wind projects. The transaction includes the Pleione offshore wind projects, located east of Gotland, and Neptunus, located southeast of Blekinge which amounted to 2.4 GW in OX2’s development […]

  • First Geotechnical Surveys Finished for TotalEnergies and SSE Seagreen 1A

    12 March 2024
    Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    The first geotechnical seabed surveys for TotalEnergies and SSE Renewables’ 500 MW Seagreen 1A offshore wind farm in Scotland have been completed. Phase two of the geotechnical works is expected to commence later this year and should take around two weeks to complete. Seagreen 1A lies adjacent to the existing 1,075 MW Seagreen project and […]

  • US Gets Its First Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Farm

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

    Construction has been completed and all twelve wind turbines have been powered up at the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the US, the 132 MW South Fork Wind. The project has started delivering power to Long Island and the Rockaways, offshore New York, with commissioning in its final stage. “When I broke ground on […]

  • Seabed Survey of New Offshore Wind Area in Norway Goes to Finnish Firm

    16 April 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Arctia Meritaito, a subsidiary of Finland’s icebreaking, fairway maintenance, and hydrographic surveying player Arctia, has been tasked with carrying out a hydrographic seabed survey of one of the offshore wind farm areas the Norwegian government plans to auction off next year. Thanks to a contract with the Norwegian Mapping Authority, Hydrographic Service (NHS), Arctia Meritaito […]

  • Shell and Eneco Partner with Largest Dutch Ecological Consultancy for Hollandse Kust West VI Offshore Wind Farm

    26 September 2023
    Business development, Collaboration, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Innovation, Project Updates

    Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has partnered with Waardenburg Ecology, the largest ecological consultancy firm in the Netherlands, to develop a comprehensive ecological programme for the offshore wind farm the joint venture will build at the Hollandse Kust (west) Wind Farm Site VI. The developer and the consultancy are developing the programme […]

  • Innovative Vessel to Spring Into Action on EnBW Offshore Wind Farm

    22 April 2024
    Business development, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    EnBW and Wallaby Boats have christened the offshore transfer vessel Impulse in the port of Kappeln, Germany, as the vessel gets ready to service the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm starting in May. The two companies have jointly launched the ship which is equipped with a new type of suspension system said to enable technicians […]

  • Spanish Developer Proposes Three Floating Wind Farms in Portugal

    27 September 2023
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Green Hydrogen, Planning & Permitting, Power-to-X, Project Updates

    Capital Energy, a renewable energy project developer based in Spain, has submitted applications for environmental assessments for three floating offshore wind farms in Portugal with a total capacity of 2 GW. Named Parque Eólico Offshore Barlavento, Parque Eólico Offshore Carvela and Parque Eólico Offshore Âncora, the first two are proposed to have 40 wind turbines and […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Hexicon and Mainstream Renewable Power File 2.5 GW Floating Wind Farm Application with Swedish Authorities

    31 October 2023
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates

    Freja Offshore, a joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power and Hexicon, has submitted a planning application for the Dyning floating offshore wind project in Sweden. The floating wind farm, planned to have an installed capacity of up to 2.5 GW, is proposed to be built in the Baltic Sea, some 45 kilometres southeast of Oxelösund. […]