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  • Spain Pushes Ahead with Offshore Wind Roadmap

    11 August 2021
    Authorities, R&D, Technology

    The Spanish government has closed the public consultation on the draft Roadmap for the Development of Offshore Wind and Marine Energies. According to the Roadmap, Spain intends to develop between 1 GW and 3 GW of offshore floating wind capacity by 2030. The Roadmap also includes plans to develop between 40 MW and 60 MW […]

  • Italian Floating Offshore Wind Farm to Deploy 14+ MW Turbines

    22 December 2021
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    Odra Energia will file an application for ministerial authorisation for its 1.3 GW floating offshore wind farm project off the southern coast of the province of Lecce, Italy, on 29 December. The proposed Odra Energia offshore wind farm project will comprise 90 wind turbines, generating around 4 TWh of electricity annually, Falck Renewables, who is […]

  • BlueFloat Consortium Unveils Plans for Another Offshore Wind Project in New Zealand

    11 November 2022
    R&D, Wind Farm Update

    A joint venture (JV) between BlueFloat Energy, Energy Estate, and Elemental Group have announced its plans to develop up to 1.4 GW Waikato offshore wind project in South Auckland and West Waikato, Aotearoa, New Zealand. The project is intended to be developed in phases to generate a capacity of up to 1.4 GW of power […]

  • Arup to Perform Feasibility Study for BlueFloat’s Offshore Wind Farm in Colombia

    7 July 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Arup will be working on the feasibility study for Vientos Alisios, an offshore wind project in Colombia developed by BlueFloat Energy, for which the company says is the most advanced offshore wind project in Colombia. Arup says it has mobilised its industry specialists for the study and that it is supported by the international marine, offshore, […]

  • EDF Renewables Acquires Multi-Gigawatt Floating Wind Project Offshore Australia

    16 February 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    EDF Renewables has acquired the Newcastle Offshore Wind (NOW) floating offshore wind project that is under development in New South Wales, Australia. Initial project developers Newcastle Offshore Wind Energy Pty Ltd (NOWE) have almost ten years of experience on the project, working closely with the EDF Renewables’ team in Australia for the last twelve months. […]

  • Colombia to Award First Offshore Wind Permits in 2023

    8 August 2022
    Authorities

    The Colombian Government, through the Ministry of Mining and Energy and the General Maritime Directorate (DIMAR), has published a resolution with which it sets the country on the path of awarding its first offshore wind permits next year. The resolution defines the competitive process for granting concessions for maritime areas designated for offshore wind development […]

  • 13 Bidders Stay in Race to Build Floating Wind Farms Offshore France

    2 August 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The French government has selected 13 companies and consortia to advance to the second phase, the competitive dialogue phase, of the tendering procedure to build two 250 MW floating offshore wind farms in Golfe du Lion in the Mediterranean Sea. The selected candidates include Iberdrola; Vattenfall; Ocean Winds; Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios, S.A.; Eni Plenitude; […]

  • Australia’s First Offshore Wind Zone Open for Feasibility Licence Applications

    23 January 2023
    Authorities, Industry

    Australia’s Ministry for Climate Change and Energy has opened the invitation period for feasibility licence applications for the Gippsland declared area, the country’s first offshore wind area. Feasibility Licence applications will be accepted for proposed projects within the area until 27 April. Once the application period has closed, the Registrar will assess all applications against […]

  • ScotWind Partners Choose Argeo for Low-Emission Survey

    20 March 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Norwegian offshore service company Argeo has signed a survey contract with Stromar, a consortium made up of Ørsted, Renantis, and BlueFloat Energy for the Stromar floating wind project offshore Scotland. Argeo will conduct a geophysical survey in the project’s development area, located in the Moray Firth off the coast of Scotland. The Stromar offshore wind […]

  • Floating Wind Projects Mushroom Offshore Sardinia

    17 February 2023
    Contracts & Tenders

    The port authorities in Cagliari have received applications for maritime state concessions for four different floating wind projects to be built offshore Sardinia. 30-year concessions are sought from the Port Authority of Cagliari for all of the four projects to be constructed offshore and allowed corridors for export cables to make landfalls. AvenHexicon, a 50/50 […]

  • Australian State Receives 8 Offshore Wind Project Proposals

    29 August 2022
    Authorities

    The New South Wales (NSW) government has received 44 expressions of interest for power generation and energy storage projects at the Illawarra Renewable Energy Zone (REZ), eight of which are offshore wind farms proposed to be built in the Australian state. The REZ has attracted AUD 43 billion (approximately EUR 29.7 billion) in potential investments, […]

  • Colombia Launches Offshore Wind Roadmap, First Project to Be Built in Barranquilla

    4 May 2022
    Authorities

    Colombia’s President Iván Duque and Minister of Mining and Energy, Diego Mesa, launched the country’s Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap on 3 May at an event in the city of Barranquilla, whose waters will become the home of the first offshore wind farm in Colombia. The objective of the roadmap is to build a transparent and […]

  • Ørsted and Acciona Team Up to Industrialise Fabrication of Carbon-Neutral Concrete Floating Wind Foundations

    19 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Industry

    Ørsted and the infrastructure division of Spanish Acciona have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore options for floating wind foundations, including using carbon-neutral materials and industrialising the fabrication of concrete foundations. Under the MoU, the two companies’ focus will be on the use of carbon-neutral bio-cement, bio-concrete, and other materials and solutions, with […]

  • Shell and Iberdrola Bid for Large-Scale Floating Wind Farms Offshore Scotland

    16 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Shell and Scottish Power Renewables, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Iberdrola, have joined forces to bid to develop the world’s first large-scale floating offshore wind farms in the north-east of Scotland. The partnership has submitted multiple proposals for new large-scale floating offshore wind farms as part of Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind leasing round which closes for […]

  • Ocean Winds Launches OW Brasil, Plans 15 GW of Offshore Wind

    14 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Ocean Winds has launched OW Brasil, its Brazilian arm working on development opportunities of offshore wind projects in the country, where Ocean Winds has filed for approval to investigate five project sites. As reported earlier in the Premium section on our sister site Offshore Energy, Ocean Winds has submitted applications for environmental permits to the […]

  • Spain Targets Up To 3 GW of Floating Wind by 2030

    9 July 2021
    Authorities, Technology

    Spain plans to develop between 1 GW and 3 GW of floating offshore wind capacity by 2030, according to the country’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge. The goal is set out in The Roadmap for the Development of Offshore Wind and Marine Energies in Spain, which is now open to public […]

  • RWE Highlights Floating Wind as It Files ScotWind Bid(s)

    19 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    RWE has announced its participation in the ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland. While the company did not specify the technology it plans to use, it did highlight its involvement in new floating wind projects worldwide in relation to the new projects to be built off the Scottish coasts. “As part of its natural evolution, […]

  • Brazilian Government Ramps Up Work on Offshore Wind, Green Hydrogen

    4 July 2023
    Authorities

    Brazil’s Ministry of Mining and Energy and Energy Research Office (EPE) have published a new version of the country’s offshore wind roadmap following recent updates of the regulatory framework for energy generation. According to a recent report by Reuters, the country’s government also plans to establish a regulative framework for offshore wind and green hydrogen by […]

  • Parkwind & Co Reveal ScotWind Bid

    20 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    A consortium comprising Parkwind, Quaybridge Scotland, and Maple Power (a joint venture between Enbridge and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board) announced on 20 July that their NextGen consortium was participating in the ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland. According to the consortium, early development work on offshore wind sites in Scotland has already been completed from […]

  • New Zealand Gov’t Plans to Have Offshore Renewables Regulations In Place by 2024, Temporarily Halts Granting Oil Exploration Permits

    16 December 2022
    Authorities

    “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 […]

  • Industry Majors, Oil & Gas Players Shortlisted for French Floating Wind Tender

    16 September 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Equinor, Shell, Eni, and TotalEnergies – oil and gas players that continue raising their stakes in the renewable energy sector – have been selected by the French government to participate in the country’s first tender dedicated to floating wind. Shell has qualified for the tender in a consortium with Valeco (a subsidiary of EnBW) and […]

  • DP Energy Plans to Enter Australian Offshore Wind Market

    25 August 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The international renewable energy company DP Energy has unveiled plans for five separate offshore wind projects in Australia after the government introduced more supportive policy for the sector. These five areas are off the coast of Warrnambool in Western Victoria, Wonthaggi and Port Albert in the Gippsland Region, and Wollongong and Newcastle areas in New […]

  • ScotWind Developers to Support Scottish Supply Chain Growth

    11 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Contribution

    Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced 24 new signatories of the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SOWEC) Collaborative Framework Charter with the goal to help build a pipeline of supply chain work in the country. The 24 new signatories include BayWa r.e., BlueFloat Energy, BP, BW Ideol, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIG), EDF Renewables, Fred. […]

  • Spain Approves Offshore Wind Roadmap

    13 December 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics, R&D

    Spain’s Council of Ministers, at the proposal of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, has approved the Roadmap for the Development of Offshore Wind and Marine Energy. The Roadmap contains 20 lines of action with the aim of reaching between 1 GW and 3 GW of floating offshore wind power capacity […]

  • French Government Pinpoints Location of First Floating Wind Farm

    28 September 2022
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The first floating offshore wind farm in France will be built more than 20 kilometres from Pointe des Poulains, a peninsula located at the northwestern end of Belle-Île. Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister for Energy Transition, and Hervé Berville, Secretary of State for the Sea, announced the specific location of the country’s first 250 MW floating wind […]

  • SSE Renewables, Equis to Place Joint Bid for Offshore Wind Project in Australia This Month

    3 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development, Wind Farm Update

    SSE Renewables and Equis Development, a Singapore-based renewable energy developer, have established a 50/50 consortium for offshore wind development in Australia, where they now plan to submit a bid for a feasibility license for an offshore wind farm project in Gippsland. In a press release issued on 3 April, the new offshore wind partners said […]