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Operations & Maintenance, Technology
Denmark’s developer of robotic blade maintenance technology, Rope Robotics, has started testing its robots on offshore wind turbines, with plans to launch them commercially by 2024. The company, which has now reported findings that turbine owners see a return on investment within just six months, also plans to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) in the future. […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Global Port Services, owned by Global Energy Group alongside the Port of Nigg, has secured multiple contracts to support Seagreen Wind Energy Limited (SWEL) with site-enabling works for the pre-assembly construction of wind turbine components at its Port of Nigg facility. The news comes as the final turbine foundations for the Seagreen offshore wind project […]
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Environment, Wind Farm Update
Ørsted has commenced work on constructing artificial nesting structures for Black-legged kittiwake offshore Minsmere and Lowestoft in East Suffolk, UK, as part of a compensation scheme associated with its Hornsea Three offshore wind farm. The works were scheduled to start on 30 January for the site off Minsmere, where one artificial nesting structure (ANS) will […]
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“Ensuring we have the right settings in place to encourage development of offshore renewable infrastructure will enable us to deliver net zero emissions by 2050”. – Megan Woods, New Zealand Energy and Resources Minister New Zealand’s Government has put proposals for the development of offshore renewable energy up for public consultation as part of a […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
TotalEnergies and Corio Generation have signed a joint venture partnership to develop the Formosa 3 offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Under this agreement, Corio will remain the majority shareholder and lead developer with 50 per cent plus ten shares overall in the project. The announcement comes after Taiwan’s Bureau of Energy confirmed in late December […]
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Business & Finance, Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment
Leading Light Wind, the American-led offshore wind project in the New York Bight, has announced three initiatives to establish Staten Island as a hub for the American offshore wind industry. The first initiative is a USD 900,000 partnership with CUNY College of Staten Island to develop the next generation of offshore wind workforce. The partners’ […]
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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released two draft Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) for offshore wind projects for public review and comment. The two projects, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) and the Sunrise Wind, if approved, could provide more than 4 GW of offshore wind power capacity, enough to power more than […]
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EDP has transferred its 25.4 per cent stake in floating offshore wind platform company Principle Power to Ocean Winds, a 50:50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and Engie. With this transaction and adding to its previous ownership, Ocean Winds now holds a total of 36.25 per cent of Principle Power. The transfer of EDP’s stake […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Vessels
Marco Polo Marine’s Taiwan-based subsidiary, PKR Offshore, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vestas Taiwan for the deployment of Marco Polo’s new commissioning service operations vessel (CSOV) on offshore wind projects in the Asia Pacific region. The new CSOV will be deployed across offshore wind farms in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, over […]
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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has published the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for two wind energy projects offshore New Jersey that are being developed by Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a US joint venture between EDF Renewables and Shell New Energies. The federal permitting process started in 2021, with BOEM announcing the […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Industry, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Ports & Logistics, Training & Education
Attentive Energy One (AE1), a joint venture of TotalEnergies and Rise Light & Power, said that its proposal to build an offshore wind farm off New York would, if approved, result in USD 25.6 billion in benefits to New York State. One of the cornerstones of its plans is a flagship manufacturing agreement with General […]
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Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics
Gwynt Glas Floating Wind Energy, a joint venture between EDF Renewables UK and DP Energy, has announced details of its first local supply chain event taking place on 1 March. The event, which will be held at Parc y Scarlets, South Wales, is open to businesses interested in finding out about regional floating wind industry […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
OX2 has entered a conditional agreement with EEW Special Pipe Constructions (SPC) for the delivery of monopile foundations for two of the offshore wind farms OX2 is developing in Sweden together with Ingka Investments. According to the agreement, EEW SPC will deliver up to 230 monopile foundations to the offshore wind farms Galatea-Galene and Triton […]
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Seagreen offshore wind farm has entered the final phases of work after the remaining eight three-legged jacket foundations were loaded onto barges at Global Energy Group’s Port of Nigg in the Highlands of Scotland. Global Port Services, part of Global Energy Group, fulfilled the storage, marshalling, and logistics contracts for the 114 95-metre tall jacket […]
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Industry, Ports & Logistics, R&D
“We are looking at a market today that is immense. It is new and unprecedented when you look at the numbers. Floating wind is expected to be, in 2050, bigger than fixed offshore wind. But we got some catching up to do, and catching up to be done is really in the supply chain”, GustoMSC’s […]
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Marco Polo Marine, the Singapore-based marine logistics company, has awarded SMST a contract for the delivery of their mission equipment for the “first-ever” Asian Commissioning Service Operations Vessel (CSOV). SMST’s mission equipment consists of an Access & Cargo Tower with a motion-compensated gangway, the so-called Telescopic Access Bridge L-Series, and a 5-tonne 3D motion-compensated crane […]
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Business & Finance, Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics
Ocean Winds (OW), a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Engie, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Port of Setúbal in Portugal to work together on preliminary steps in getting the port infrastructure ready for the upcoming offshore wind development in the country. José Pinheiro, Ocean Winds’ country manager for Southern Europe, […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders
Ørsted and the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen the cooperation on the green transformation and carbon neutrality of the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) in South Korea. Under the MoU, Ørsted Korea and IFEZA agreed to explore key areas of collaboration, including Ørsted Korea’s 1.6GW […]
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Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Jan De Nul Group has completed the first part of the cable installation works to connect the wind farms Hollandse Kust (noord) and (west Alpha) to the Dutch mainland. The 220-kV high-voltage tests of both sea and land cables for Hollandse Kust (noord) were successfully completed as well, from the onshore substation to the substation […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Industry, Infrastructure, R&D, Technology
Celtic Sea Power has awarded the Aberdeen-based engineering consultants, Apollo, with the pre-FEED contract for the 400 MW Pembrokeshire Demonstration Zone Multi-connection Offshore Substation (PDZ MOS) and 2x 1 GW MOSs targeting The Crown Estate Refined Area of Search (RAoS) A offshore Wales. Located 19 kilometres off the Pembrokeshire coast, the PDZ MOS project is […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Research & Development
The European Commission (EC) has approved, under EU State aid rules, a EUR 2.08 billion measure to support the construction and operation of a floating offshore wind farm in France. The floating offshore wind project will be located off the coast of South Brittany and is expected to have a capacity of 230 MW to […]
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Business development, Industry, Infrastructure, Innovation, Jobs & Recruitment, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Research & Development, Technology, Technology
RWE has unveiled its vision for the future of floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea region and the opportunities it presents from new large-scale, commercial projects. Entitled “RWE’s Vision for the Celtic Sea”, the document was unveiled during day one of the Marine Energy Wales conference, in Swansea, UK. RWE sees floating wind technology […]
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Industry, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
The Sweden-based company OX2 and the Bank of Åland, who are jointly developing two multi-gigawatt-scale offshore wind farms in Finland, have initiated a feasibility study on Mega Grön Hamn (Mega Green Port), a project involving large-scale production and distribution of hydrogen and e-fuel in Åland. The companies plan to establish the Mega Green Port at […]
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Singapore-based offshore wind vessel owner and operator, Marco Polo Marine, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Amogy, under which the New York company’s ammonia-to-power systems will be installed on Marco Polo Marine’s offshore wind vessels. The system will be installed on Marco Polo Marine’s existing or newly built wind vessels, the company said in a […]
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Business development, Technology
Last week, three months after it was installed at the National Test Center for large wind turbines in Østerild, Denmark, Vestas’s V236-15.0 MW prototype wind turbine reached its nominal power rating of 15 MW. The company’s new flagship wind turbine produced its first electricity shortly after being installed in December 2022 and has started operating at […]
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The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has opened a public consultation period to gather ideas for the environmental assessments of the plans for the country’s new offshore wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas. DEA is working on planning for the areas that were last year identified as suitable for the establishment of offshore wind […]
