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  • New York’s Project First in US to Facilitate Fossil Fuel-to-Offshore Wind Workforce Transition

    5 July 2023
    Jobs & Recruitment, Wind Farm Update

    The joint venture between TotalEnergies and Rise Light & Power, which is developing the 1.4 GW Attentive Energy One offshore wind project in New York, has signed a labour agreement that will see the staff at the Ravenswood Generating Station becoming the first in the country to transition from work in fossil fuel power generation to […]

  • Bureau Veritas Secures Multi-Million East Anglia Three Contract

    26 June 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Bureau Veritas has been awarded a major contract to provide integrated site services for ScottishPower Renewables’ 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK. Under the multi-million-pound contract, Bureau Veritas will provide quality, fabrication management, and inspection services, representing ScottishPower Renewables within a significant portion of the project supply chain. In addition, […]

  • RPS Wins Contract for BP and EnBW’s UK Offshore Wind Projects

    26 May 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    BP and EnBW have selected RPS as Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and Habitat Regulations Assessment (HRA) lead for the development of the two lease areas the joint venture partners secured this February in the UK Offshore Wind Round 4. “The lease areas have a combined potential capacity of 3 GW, enough to power the equivalent […]

  • BP, EnBW to Start Site Investigations for 3 GW Offshore Wind Project in UK

    21 June 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    A geophysical, geotechnical and environmental (benthic) survey at the sites the Crown Estate awarded to a consortium between BP and EnBW earlier this year is set to start on 27 June. The proposed 3 GW Yellow North and South offshore wind project consists of two sites in the Irish Sea, off the coasts of North […]

  • Path Clears for Full Integration of Siemens Gamesa into Siemens Energy

    13 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Industry, Outlook & Strategy

    Siemens Gamesa minority shareholders have approved a capital reduction for the remaining 2.21 per cent of shares not held by Siemens Energy in the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, paving the way for a full integration of both companies. The capital reduction was approved by 98.21 per cent of the minority shareholders attending in person […]

  • Offshore Wind Saves Crown Estate’s Day as Pandemic-Hit Revenues Plummet

    24 June 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The Crown Estate has announced a net revenue profit of GBP 269.3 million (around EUR 315 million) for the financial year 2020/21, a 21.9 per cent decrease compared to the previous year, significantly impacted by three national lockdowns and various restrictions as a result of the pandemic. However, while the profits from the recently held […]

  • Flotation Energy, Vårgrønn Take First Permitting Step for Another Oil & Gas-Powering Floating Wind Farm

    2 March 2023
    Business development, Wind Farm Update

    Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, who recently filed a Marine Licence application for their 500 MW Green Volt floating wind farm in Scotland, have now submitted a Scoping Report for the 1.4 GW Cenos floating offshore wind farm to Marine Scotland. The developers have submitted leasing applications for both Cenos and Green Volt as part of […]

  • ‘Underpowered’ Auctions Threat to UK Offshore Wind Ambitions – Energy UK

    4 May 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Industry, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Energy UK has warned that the forthcoming Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction will fall well short of delivering the expansion of offshore wind needed to hit the UK government’s 2030 50 GW target. The CfD scheme has played a vital role in the UK’s world-leading expansion of clean energy, in particular offshore wind, driving down […]

  • BP and EnBW Secure Prime Wind Real Estate Offshore UK

    8 February 2021
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    UK oil and gas major bp and German energy company EnBW have been selected as the preferred bidder for two major leases in the UK Offshore Wind Round 4. This marks bp’s entry into the UK’s offshore wind power sector, currently the largest in the world. The leases, both located in the Irish Sea, offer […]

  • Siemens Launches Round 3 Website in London, UK

    15 June 2012

    Siemens has launched its new Round 3 website at the Global Offshore Conference at ExCel, London (13-14 June).  Siemens, a leading provider of global wind power solutions, unveiled its vision for Round 3, the largest offshore wind programme to date, with the launch of a new dedicated website.  Focused on informing external audiences about the […]

  • Massachusetts Offshore Wind Auction Day 2 Starts

    14 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The US Bureau of Offshore Energy Management (BOEM) has resumed the auction for commercial wind energy leasing offshore Massachusetts.

  • BP Hires RWE Director to Head Its UK Offshore Wind Business

    15 June 2022
    Business & Finance

    BP has appointed Richard Sandford, now former Director of Offshore Development Europe at RWE Renewables, to lead its offshore wind business in the UK. According to information shared on social media, Sandford will start at his new position next month. BP, together with its partner EnBW, has 3 GW of offshore wind projects in the […]

  • The Crown Estate Postpones Round 4 Seabed Lease Awards

    15 October 2020
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The UK seabed manager The Crown Estate has postponed the Round 4 offshore wind lease awards from 2021 to spring 2022 due to delays in the bidding procedure. Round 4 seeks to identify at least 7GW of new offshore wind projects in UK waters and is expected to shortly complete the ITT Stage 1 which […]

  • BP, EnBW to Deploy Floating LiDARs at 3 GW Offshore Wind Project Sites

    29 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    BP and EnBW, who won lease rights for two offshore wind sites in the UK Round 4 leasing at the beginning of this year, have deployed two metocean buoys and will soon deploy two floating LiDARs as part of a metocean and wind measurement campaign at the two sites. The metocean buoys will stay at their […]

  • New York Bight Lease Sale Day 1

    23 February 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    This is an article following Day 1 updates of the New York Bight offshore wind lease sale. To read the updates from Day 2 and Day 3, or news on the final results of the lease sale, go to the articles below: The biggest offshore wind lease sale ever organised in the US is resuming […]

  • Shell and Ocean Winds Joint Venture Seeks to Terminate and Rebid US Offshore Wind Contracts

    6 June 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Industry, Wind Farm Update

    SouthCoast Wind, the developer of an offshore wind lease area off the coast of Massachusetts, has started discussions with this US state’s representatives and utilities to terminate its existing Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) citing ”material and unforeseen supply chain and financing cost increases affecting the whole offshore wind industry.” The SouthCoast Wind, a 2.4 GW […]

  • Ørsted Marks First Floating Offshore Wind Win

    18 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Crown Estate Scotland (CES) has selected the Ørsted, Falck Renewables, and BlueFloat Energy consortium to enter into an Option Agreement for a new floating offshore wind site off the north-east coast of Scotland. The award for this floating wind site of up to 1 GW in scale has been made through CES’s ScotWind offshore wind […]

  • BP Posts Around 100 Offshore Wind Job Vacancies

    10 May 2021
    Jobs & Recruitment

    BP, which just recently entered the offshore wind market, has posted around 100 job vacancies looking for talent to support its growing offshore wind business. “bp’s ambition is to become one of the world’s leading offshore wind energy developers. To power the scale and pace of growth that we are targeting, we need the best […]

  • ScotWind Leasing Back on Track with Option Fee Bar Set Higher

    25 March 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Crown Estate Scotland has completed the review of the option structure for the ScotWind offshore wind leasing round, raising the maximum fee that might be paid per square kilometre of seabed from the previous GBP 10,000 (around EUR 12,000) to GBP 100,000 (around EUR 116,000). The Scottish seabed manager announced the review in February, after […]

  • Massachusetts Offshore Wind Showdown Starts

    13 December 2018
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    The US Bureau of Offshore Energy Management (BOEM) is holding an auction for commercial wind energy leasing offshore Massachusetts this Thursday, 13 December.

  • Crown Estate Opens Offshore Wind Market Engagement Window

    1 November 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    The Crown Estate has invited registration for a second market engagement event for a potential new offshore wind leasing round in the UK on Monday 26 November 2018.

  • Quaybridge to Help BP Advance Its Global Offshore Wind Portfolio

    22 July 2021
    Business & Finance

    BP has formed an exclusive consultancy agreement with Quaybridge, under which the two companies will work together to advance BP’s global offshore wind portfolio and accelerate the building of the company’s in-house offshore wind knowledge. Quaybridge has already worked with BP as the company supported BP and EnBW in winning their ‘preferred bidder’ status for […]

  • K2 Management: Is ScotWind Lease Hike Compatible with Energy Transition?

    19 July 2021
    Business & Finance

    The following article is a guest post by Will Sheard, Director, Due Diligence & Analysis, K2 Management, discussing the ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland, for which the application period closed last week and which saw multiple companies and consortia filing their bids.   The conclusion of Crown Estate Scotland’s (CES) review into the option […]

  • Irish ESB Joins Northland Power on Two Scottish Offshore Wind Projects

    10 May 2023
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    ESB will acquire a 24.5 per cent interest in Northland Power’s ScotWind projects, the fixed-bottom offshore wind farm Spiorad na Mara and the floating wind project Havbredey. Northland will retain 75.5 per cent in each project and continue to lead their development, construction, and operation. The companies have signed definitive agreements on ESB’s purchase of […]

  • Europe to Remain Leader in Offshore Wind Industry

    13 October 2011

    The European offshore wind sector will continue to lead the world market for the foreseeable future, according to a new report showing that the region will have 75% of global installations in six years. Conducted by Pike Research, the report launched on Tuesday found revenues from offshore wind power production around the world would reach […]

  • Offshore Wind Developers Answer Scotland’s Call for Innovation, Oil and Gas Decarbonisation

    13 December 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Industry, R&D, Technology

    Crown Estate Scotland has received a total of 19 applications for its Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) offshore wind leasing process.   This level of interest from industry demonstrates significant support for this exciting new opportunity, the Scottish seabed manager said.   INTOG aims to help decarbonise the North Sea oil and gas […]