5163 results found for 'Bay State Wind'

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  • NKT Puts Kriegers Flak CGS Cable Into Operation

    5 June 2019
    Grid Connection

    NKT has commissioned the 170kV high-voltage cable system at the Kriegers Flak Combined Grid Solution (CGS) connecting Denmark and Germany. According to NKT, the work on the CGS cable connecting the Kriegers Flak and Baltic 2 offshore wind farms was completed on schedule and on budget. The high-voltage cable system connects the Danish region of […]

  • US Proposes Auctions for Over 18 GW of Offshore Wind Capacity

    30 April 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The US Department of the Interior has announced two proposals for offshore wind energy auctions off the coast of Oregon and in the Gulf of Maine. The two sales proposed by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have the potential to generate more than 18 GW of offshore wind energy, enough to power more […]

  • US Team Developing Mega Turbines Inspired by Palm Trees

    28 December 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    A US-based team of scientists plans to use a USD 3.56 million grant to develop wind turbines able to protect themselves in severe weather by folding in their rotor blades like palm trees in a hurricane. The team, led by Professor Eric Loth, Chair of the University of Virginia’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will spend the three-year grant […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes Galloper Announcement

    30 October 2015
    Authorities

    RenewableUK says today’s announcement by RWE Innogy of new project partners and investors for the Galloper offshore wind farm off the coast of Suffolk demonstrates the robustness of Britain’s world-leading offshore wind market. It follows the announcement on Wednesday that DONG Energy has made a final investment decision to build Walney Extension offshore wind farm […]

  • Siemens Financial Services Sells Its Stake in Veja Mate Offshore Wind Farm

    11 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Commerz Real, Ingka Group and KGAL have acquired the remaining 20 per cent stake in the Veja Mate wind farm offshore Germany, after a consortium comprising Commerz Real and Ingka Group as the largest shareholders, together with KGAL and ALH Group, bought an 80 per cent stake in Veja Mate three years ago.  In 2019, […]

  • UK Plans Put Offshore Wind Investment under Risk, Says Eneco

    25 July 2012

    Managing Director of Eneco Wind U.K. Ltd., Guy Madgwick, has commented on the UK’s plans to change how it supports the development of offshore wind for Bloomberg. A day before Mr. Madgwick’s comments, officials realized that the plans to overhaul the power market were “unworkable”. According to Eneco, the government’s plans to provide contracts for […]

  • Fishermen’s Energy Uses Lockheed Martin’s WindTracer LIDAR Device (USA)

    6 December 2011

    Fishermen’s Energy announced that they have completed another significant step in building what may be the first offshore windfarm in the United States. Early in November, a team of Fishermen’s engineers and specialists from Lockheed Martin installed a sophisticated wind measurement device on the rooftop of a seaside apartment building in Margate, New Jersey. Typically […]

  • First Turbine Stands at New York’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    21 November 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbine has been installed at the South Fork Wind Farm offshore New York. The first of South Fork Wind’s twelve Siemens Gamesa wind turbines was hoisted into place by the offshore construction team at the project site 35 miles off Montauk, New York. First approved by the Long Island […]

  • Federal Budget Fails to Extend Support for New Wind Energy Development

    5 March 2010
    Authorities

    The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) today expressed its serious disappointment with the federal government’s failure to expand and extend its very successful ecoENERGY for Renewable Power Program in the 2010 federal budget. Despite its expressed desire to harmonize climate change and clean energy policies with the United States, the federal government is now clearly […]

  • NYSERDA Ready for New York Offshore Wind Auction

    30 November 2016

    The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has submitted documents and bid deposit for the federal auction of an offshore wind site off New York, scheduled to open on 15 December. The organisation has filed qualifications and bidder’s financial forms to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to […]

  • Wind Power Industry to Add Over 241 GW of Capacity by 2017, Forecasts Navigant Research (USA)

    3 July 2013
    R&D

    With the addition of 44.9 gigawatts (GW) in new installations in 2012, world wind power capacity grew to approximately 285.7 GW, an increase of 18.6 percent in the total wind power installation base. Average annual growth over the past 5 years has been 17.8 percent, achieved during the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, even […]

  • First-Ever ‘Made in USA’ Offshore Substation to Be Built for South Fork OWF

    26 August 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The developers of the South Fork offshore wind farm, Ørsted and Eversource, have selected Texas-based Kiewit Offshore Services to design and build the offshore substation for the project, with the work scheduled to start in November. The offshore substation for New York’s first offshore wind farm will be the first-ever to be built in the […]

  • First Rentel Turbines Up

    15 May 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    A2Sea’s jack-up Sea Installer has installed the first sets of Siemens Gamesa D7-type turbines on the Rentel offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.

  • Fugro Installs Three Foundations for Oyster Wave Energy Device (UK)

    1 December 2011

    Fugro Seacore (FSCL) has successfully installed three sets of foundations for Aquamarine Power’s full scale pre-commercial Oyster devices at the European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC) Billia Croo wave test site near Stromness, on the exposed coast of the Orkney mainland.  “A paired foundation was used for the first 800 kW Oyster 800 now successfully installed […]

  • UK: Royal HaskoningDHV Congratulates SSE and RWE on Galloper OWF Advancement

    27 May 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    Royal HaskoningDHV has congratulated SSE and RWE npower renewables  on the announcement that Galloper Wind Farm has received development consent from the Secretary of State, and represents the largest offshore wind farm project to receive consent under the Planning Act 2008. SSE and RWE npower renewables estimate that the 140 turbine development will provide enough […]

  • TotalEnergies, Avangrid, Hexicon Eyeing Gulf of Maine for Their Next (Floating) Offshore Wind Bids

    11 January 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Gulf of Maine, whose US waters lie off the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, has already attracted several (floating) offshore wind developers as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) continues its process towards designating Wind Energy Areas which will be put up for a lease sale in 2024. After BOEM issued a […]

  • Cape Wind Project Hits Another Roadblock

    30 March 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Cape Wind Associates might suffer another setback in their efforts to build a 468MW offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, after the state’s energy agency recommended that the company’s permit for two underwater power lines should not be extended for two additional years, according to The Boston Globe. The developer said that the decision reached by the […]

  • USA: BOEM Seeks Industry Interest in Wind Energy Development Offshore North Carolina

    13 December 2012

    As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand domestic energy development, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced it is publishing a Call for Information and Nominations to gauge the offshore wind industry’s interest in acquiring commercial wind leases in three areas offshore North Carolina and to request comments regarding site […]

  • MHI Vestas Gets Preferred Supplier Status for French Floater

    7 October 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has been selected as the preferred supplier for the Groix & Belle-Île floating offshore wind project in France. MHI Vestas will provide its 9.5MW units, which means that the number of offshore wind turbines at the demonstration project will be reduced from four to three. “Installing the 9.5 MW machine for […]

  • New Scottish Initiative Links Offshore Wind Innovators and Academia

    25 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    The Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) is launching a new initiative aimed at giving Scottish businesses a head start in developing offshore wind products and services with the help of academic expertise. The initiative features the Energy Technology Partnership (ETP), an alliance of 13 Scottish universities offering resources in energy technology development to provide developers with access to academics and […]

  • Milestones on Obama’s Vision for a New Energy Future (USA)

    19 January 2011
    Authorities

    By helping stand up responsible large-scale renewable energy projects on America’s public lands and oceans, the Department of the Interior is playing a leading role in fulfilling President Obama’s vision for a new energy future. As America’s principal public lands management agency with stewardship responsibility over 20 percent of the nation’s land mass and 1.75 […]

  • John Laing Sees Strong Investment Potential in OW Sector

    7 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Even though its current pipeline does not include any offshore wind opportunities after acquiring a stake in Nordergründe offshore wind farm, John Laing Group sees the offshore wind sector offering strong investment potential in the coming years.

  • CfD Auction Design Changes Come with GBP 1.5 Billion Price Tag

    16 May 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The 2017 Contracts for Difference (CfD) will cost UK consumers significantly more relative to the additional capacity secured due to the changes in the auction design which allowed small fuelled-technology projects to raise the strike price of larger projects, National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

  • CIP, Ignitis to Jointly Bid in Estonian and Latvian Offshore Wind Tenders

    1 August 2023
    Collaboration, Contracts & Tenders, Outlook & Strategy

    Ignitis Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its New Markets Fund I, have signed an agreement to collaborate on offshore wind opportunities in Estonia and Latvia and intend to jointly bid in the upcoming offshore wind tenders in these countries. Estonia plans to hold auctions for multiple offshore wind sites in the last quarter […]

  • Estonia Targets 2030 with Offshore Wind

    1 November 2017
    Authorities

    The Estonian Government has confirmed the Estonian Energy Development Plan until 2030 (ENMAK), that sets out a plan for renewable energy to have a share of 50% in the domestic electricity consumption and 80% in the heat generated in Estonia.

  • Dutch Creating Eco-Friendly North Sea Energy System

    20 June 2016
    Authorities

    The Netherlands Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Association (NOGEPA), the Netherlands Wind Energy Association (NWEA), the Dutch Foundation for Nature Conservation and Environmental Protection, TenneT and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) have signed a Declaration of Coordination and Cooperation in the North Sea Region. The organisations, which signed the agreement for closer […]