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  • New Massachusetts Bill Extends Offshore Wind Contracts to 30 Years, Heads to Governor’s Desk

    18 November 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The Massachusetts State Legislature has passed a clean energy bill aimed at strengthening future offshore wind contracts. Among other provisions, the bill would allow the state to negotiate contracts of up to 30 years, extending the current 20-year limit. According to Massachusetts State Senator Karen E. Spilka, the legislation allows future offshore wind contracts to be […]

  • BOEM Brings Gulf of Maine Step Closer to Offshore Wind Lease Sale

    9 September 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its final Environmental Assessment (EA) of the wind energy area (WEA) located in the Gulf of Maine, finding that the leasing process and site assessment and characterisation activities will not have a significant environmental impact. BOEM held an open comment period on the draft EA […]

  • BlueFloat Bolsters Taiwan Floating Offshore Wind Ties

    7 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Floating Wind, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    BlueFloat Energy has signed agreements with the Ship and Ocean Industries R&D Center (SOIC) and the CR Classification Society to advance development in Taiwan’s floating offshore wind sector. Additionally, the company formalized a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with National Taiwan University’s Ocean Center for a study on its Winds of September project. BlueFloat said these […]

  • EU Greenlights Massive EUR 10.8 Billion Investment in French Offshore Wind

    4 July 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The European Commission has approved a EUR 10.82 billion French scheme, to support the deployment of offshore wind, in particular the construction and operation of two bottom-fixed offshore wind farms in the country. The scheme, which will run for 20 years, will support a wind farm in the South Atlantic zone and another in the […]

  • 13 GW Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind Lease Sale Set for Late October

    17 September 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Business development, Planning & Permitting

    The US Department of Interior (DOI) plans to hold a lease auction on 29 October for eight offshore wind areas in the Gulf of Maine, capable of delivering approximately 13 GW of renewable energy. The area included in the Final Sale Notice (FSN) is about 120,000 acres less than what the Bureau of Ocean Energy […]

  • Seatrium to Build Heavy Lift Vessel for Japan’s Penta-Ocean Construction

    11 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Seatrium has revealed that its subsidiary has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Penta-Ocean Construction (POC) to build a heavy lift vessel to serve the Japanese offshore wind market. Seatrium’s subsidiary signed a LoI with the Japanese company to carry out early engineering work for a 5,000-tonne fully-revolving heavy lift vessel. Subject to the […]

  • Up to 2.2 GW Maryland Offshore Wind Project Moves Closer to Federal Approval

    30 July 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for US Wind’s Maryland offshore wind project, indicating that the project is nearing the end of the federal review process. BOEM held three public scoping meetings in June 2022 to solicit public input on the environmental review process and […]

  • BOEM Invites Feedback on Mitigation Measures for California Offshore Wind Leases

    14 November 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has opened a public consultation on a regional environmental analysis of potential mitigation measures on future development activities for five offshore wind lease areas off California’s central and north coasts. The Notice of Availability (NOA) for the California Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) will be published […]

  • Delaware Grants Grid Permits for US Wind’s 2 GW Offshore Project

    11 December 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Planning & Permitting

    US Wind, owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management and Renexia S.p.A., has been authorised by Delaware regulators to install the transmission infrastructure for its up to 2 GW Maryland offshore wind project. The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) has approved three permit applications from US Wind to connect its […]

  • Australia Declares Wind Zone for 20 GW off Bass Strait

    12 December 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The Australian government has declared an area off northern Tasmania’s Bass Strait as suitable for offshore wind development, with the potential to generate 20 GW of offshore wind energy. In response to feedback from local leaders, industry, fishers, unions, First Nations people, and community groups, the declared Bass Strait zone is smaller and further from […]

  • PHOTO: Mingyang’s 16.6 MW Dual-Turbine Floating Wind Platform Enters Operation in China

    12 December 2024
    Floating Wind, Foundations, Project Updates, Technology, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Mingyang Smart Energy’s OceanX, which the company says is the world’s largest single-capacity floating wind power platform, has started operating at the Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm in Yangjiang, China, where it was installed this summer. The dual-turbine, V-shaped floater operates autonomously, starting up with its own power systems, and has been tested for off-grid stability, […]

  • US East Coast Wind & Metocean Survey Completed Ahead of Central Atlantic Lease Sale

    24 July 2024
    Business development, Research & Development

    TGS has completed a wind and metocean data collection project along the US East Coast, which the company describes as the largest in the region. The campaign involved deploying and simultaneously operating five offshore LiDAR buoys covering nearly 600 kilometres from Massachusetts to the Virginia/North Carolina border. Data were collected from July 2022 through July […]

  • BOEM Starts Working on Second Central Atlantic Offshore Wind Auction

    21 August 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will publish a Call for Information and Nominations (Call) for a second offshore wind energy sale in the Central Atlantic, seeking public input on potential development in areas off the coasts of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. BOEM will public the Commercial Leasing for […]

  • As Turbines Get Bigger, Leading Offshore Wind Players Gather Around Alternative to Bolted L-Flange Connections

    5 July 2024
    Business development, Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Innovation, Supply Chain, Technology

    A consortium comprising some of the world’s leading offshore wind developers and Tier 1 suppliers have initiated a joint industry project that aims to commercialise a new foundation connection technology developed by the Netherlands-based company C1 Connections. “With the increasing size of wind turbines, the traditional L-flange design has reached a point where in cases […]

  • Organisers of Dutch, US Offshore Energy Events Ink New Agreement

    27 November 2024
    Business & Finance

    PRESS RELEASE BY NAVINGO BV, Amsterdam, 27 November 2024 – The US industry organisation for offshore renewable energy, Oceantic Network, and Dutch media company Navingo today signed a new agreement to cross-promote each other’s events, Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference in the Netherlands and the International Partnering Forum (IPF) in the United States. The agreement […]

  • Cyan Renewables, Blue Water Shipping Forge APAC Offshore Wind Alliance

    11 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy

    Singapore-headquartered Cyan Renewables and Blue Water Shipping have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on providing a wide range of logistical services for the offshore wind sector in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Under the MoU, the partners agree to provide a wide range of logistical services and infrastructure to facilitate the transportation of […]

  • Offshore Construction Starts at French Dieppe Le Tréport Wind Farm Site

    28 June 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    DEME’s installation vessel Apollo is now at the site of the French offshore wind farm Dieppe Le Tréport, ready to start installing pin piles for the project’s 62 jacket foundations. According to an update DEME posted on social media on 28 June, Apollo arrived at the offshore wind farm site this week and the DEME […]

  • US Grants Maine First Floating Offshore Wind Research Lease

    20 August 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The US State of Maine and the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have agreed on a floating offshore wind research lease in the Gulf of Maine, which could allow for the deployment of twelve floating wind turbines capable of generating 144 MW. The research lease site, an area of up to 15 square […]

  • BOEM Links Up with US Department of Defense on Offshore Wind

    30 October 2024
    Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the coordinated development of offshore wind on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The agreement calls for DOD and BOEM to find mutual solutions that support renewable energy in a manner compatible […]

  • USV Fleet Deployed at Dogger Bank D Offshore Wind Farm Site for Geophysical Survey

    12 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    A multibeam echosounder (MBES) geophysical survey of the Dogger Bank D offshore wind site, using several uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), is scheduled to start on 13 August. According to information in the project’s Notice to Mariners, XOCEAN will deploy multiple USVs to survey the wind turbine array site and the export cable route. The USVs will […]

  • US Cancels Second Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Lease Sale

    26 July 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has cancelled the second offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico as there was no competitive interest. The first lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico was held in August 2023 and one lease was awarded to RWE for the Lake Charles Lease Area off […]

  • Avangrid, Invenergy Winners of First Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind Auction

    30 October 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    Avangrid and Invenergy have each secured two lease areas in the Gulf of Maine auction, where total bids exceeded USD 21.9 million (approximately EUR 20 million), marking the first lease sale in the region and the first for floating offshore wind on the US Atlantic coast. The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held […]

  • Fugro Lands Long-Term Offshore Wind Support Contract with Van Oord

    22 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    Dutch geo-data specialist, Fugro, has been awarded a long-term contract to provide construction support to its compatriot Van Oord for offshore wind farms across Europe for three years, with an option to extend. Under the contract, multiple remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems, construction equipment, personnel, and associated services will be deployed on Van Oord’s vessels […]

  • Construction Starts on Mingyang and BASF’s Chinese Offshore Wind Farm

    24 December 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The construction of the Xuwen Dongsan Offshore Wind Power Demonstration Project, developed by a joint venture between Mingyang Smart Energy and Germany’s BASF, has commenced in Zhanjiang, China. This is the first offshore wind power project in China to be approved as a Sino-German cooperation, according to the developers. In July 2023, Mingyang Smart Energy […]

  • Opinion | Offshore Wind Energy: Delivering the American Dream

    22 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind

    This is an op-ed piece by Liz Burdock, Founder and CEO of Oceantic Network, the US offshore renewable energy industry organisation. When I started Oceantic Network 11 years ago, I was motivated by the confident belief that offshore wind would be an economic and environmental game-changer for the U.S. Not only because of the industry’s […]

  • KOEN Exiting South Korean Project as Proposed Offshore Wind Farm Did Not Pass Gov’t Feasibility Study

    7 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Korea South-East Power (KOEN), a subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), is withdrawing from the Shinan Ui (Sinan Ui) offshore wind project after the proposed wind farm did not pass the government’s feasibility assessment. According to Seoul Economic Daily, in August 2024, the preliminary feasibility study carried out by the Ministry of Strategy and […]