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  • UK Gauging Offshore Wind Business Opportunities in US

    14 September 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Xodus has completed an analysis of the US offshore wind industry to determine potential opportunities for UK companies to enter the offshore wind market across the pond. According to the study, a rapid expansion in products and services is currently required to deliver projects on time and on budget, due to a lack of maturity […]

  • Equinor Submits New York Offshore Wind Bid

    15 February 2019
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders

    Equinor Wind US has submitted a bid to provide New York state with renewable energy from its Empire Wind lease site located offshore New York and New Jersey. Equinor’s bid comes in response to the 800MW New York State Offshore Wind Power Procurement, the state’s first formal solicitation targeted to the newly developing US offshore […]

  • BOEM Seeks Public Input on Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind Research Lease

    4 May 2023
    Authorities, Business development, Research & Development

    The United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has unveiled plans to review potential environmental impacts associated with the possible issuance of an offshore wind energy research lease in the Gulf of Maine. The lease was requested by the State of Maine for the purpose of researching potential floating offshore wind development. The research […]

  • Ørsted Flies High on UK Offshore Wind

    26 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Danish offshore wind developer Ørsted reported DKK 3 billion (EUR 402.7 million) net profit in the first quarter of 2018, a 150% spike compared to the same period last year, largely due to a strong performance of operating wind farms in the UK.

  • 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 […]

  • Polenergia Drops Lithuanian Offshore Wind Project After Economic Viability Analysis

    1 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Polenergia, the Polish utility company and renewable energy developer, has decided to stop developing an offshore wind project in Lithuania the company was preparing for the country’s next offshore wind auction, which the Lithuanian government plans to hold later this year. The company says it made the decision after analysing the economic viability of the project […]

  • USA Marine Power Makes Waves

    16 October 2012

    Collaborations between the US power industry and academia to develop new technologies for marine power generation are closer than ever before, states a new report by energy experts GlobalData. The new report shows that the US is working to conduct extensive testing of wave and tidal power devices in open waters, while various universities are […]

  • South Carolina: Offshore Wind Could Bring over 800 Annual Jobs

    27 September 2018
    R&D

    The offshore wind industry could support an annual average of 847 jobs in the U.S. state of South Carolina through 2035, according to The South Carolina Jobs Project: A Guide to Creating Jobs in Offshore Wind report.

  • Connecticut Utilities Move Forward with Park City Wind PPAs

    22 May 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Connecticut’s utilities Eversource Energy and United Illuminating have filed with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) executed power purchase agreements for the 804 MW Park City Wind Project developed by Vineyard Wind. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) selected the Park City Wind project in December 2019 to advance to contract negotiations […]

  • GE Vernova Removing More Vineyard Wind Blades While Strengthening Others Following Inspections

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

    Following a July blade failure incident, GE Vernova plans to remove some blades and strengthen others at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the US. The companies are implementing the incident and response action plan, which was announced in August. The plan outlined steps to safely remove the remainder of the damaged blade […]

  • Norwegians Developing Monopile Foundation for 100-Metre Depths

    19 October 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Norway’s Entrion Wind and Techano AS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) through which Techano AS will join the ongoing development and test project planned to take place in Kristiansand, Norway for the patent-pending fully restrained platform (FRP) offshore wind foundation technology said to extend the operating depth of the monopile technology to up […]

  • Belgium: Turbine Blade Designs to Reduce Costs

    27 December 2012

    Siemens has already become somewhat of a leader in this field producing the world’s longest rotor blades for wind turbines. Measuring 75 meters in length, the blades are almost as big as the wingspan of an Airbus A380. As they move, each rotor covers 18,600 square meters, the size of two and a half soccer […]

  • MHI Vestas Heads to The Big Easy

    24 May 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Training & Education

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has sent two members of its executive management team to New Orleans to share the lessons learnt from over two decades of experience in erecting offshore wind farms in Europe with their American colleagues during the WINDPOWER 2016 conference organised by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). The offshore market in the US is on […]

  • A Look Back at Offshore WIND Conference 2018

    1 January 2019

    While Offshore WIND team started preparing for our 2019 conference even before the 2018 one kicked off and the preparations are now well underway, we bring you an overview of the news from our now last year’s event:

  • UK Exporting Renewables to Six Continents – Report

    18 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    UK-based onshore and offshore wind, wave and tidal energy companies are now exporting their products and services to 37 countries across six continents, a report published by RenewableUK shows. Using an illustrative sample of companies involved in the sector, “Export Nation” reveals that 47 UK firms signed 465 contracts worth up to GBP 53 million […]

  • More Government Support for US Offshore Wind Power

    11 February 2011
    Authorities

    Although many politicians in the US are still in denial about global warming and the nation’s frightening addiction to expensive, imported oil, President Barack Obama’s government continues promoting the development of an offshore wind sector. The latest evidence of the government’s realisation that wind power can help mitigate climate change, provide increased energy security and […]

  • Empire State Building to Swich to Cape Wind Power (USA)

    12 January 2011

    The US wind power sector received two huge endorsements last week involving the first proposed offshore wind farm in the country and the nation’s favourite building. Cape Wind, a 130 turbine project that was first proposed a decade ago, received its final permit from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday, allowing it to begin […]

  • Highlights of the Month: November 2015

    3 December 2015

    DONG Unveils U.S. Offshore Wind Project Details DONG Energy has released project details for its offshore wind farm proposed to be built off Massachusetts, USA. Scotland Greenlights World’s Largest Floating Wind Project The Scottish Government has granted a marine licence to Statoil for the construction of Hywind Scotland project, the world’s largest floating offshore wind […]

  • MassCEC to Trial 130-Metre Wind Turbine Blades with New Test Bench

    29 June 2023
    R&D

    Denmark-based R&D Test Systems has delivered a new test bench for the next generation of wind turbine blades to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s (MassCEC) Wind Technology Testing Center (WTTC). This was part of the USD 4 million US Department of Energy (DOE) and MassCEC’s grant to upgrade the blade testing equipment to accommodate the […]

  • Dominion Wins Grant to Work on Cost Reduction of Offshore Wind Electricity (USA)

    19 September 2011
    Business & Finance, R&D

      Dominion has received a two-year, $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to look for ways to reduce the cost of offshore wind electricity generation by at least 25 percent. “One of the biggest challenges to off-shore wind generation is bringing down the cost so it can be more competitive with other forms […]

  • Deepwater Wind moves headquarters to Providence (USA)

    15 September 2010
    Business & Finance

    Deepwater Wind, the developer planning two offshore wind farms in Rhode Island, has moved its corporate headquarters here from New Jersey. The company announced Monday that it is now based out of what was a satellite office at 56 Exchange Terrace in Providence. The office, which opened in April 2009 with only one employee based […]

  • USA: RME Begins Wave Energy Project in Alaska

    8 February 2013

    Resolute Marine Energy (RME) announced that its preliminary permit application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been approved, marking the official start of the Yakutat, Alaska Wave Energy Project.  “This approval is an important milestone for RME. After several years of research and testing we are finally poised to move forward with a […]

  • New England Preps for Offshore Wind Surge with DNV Analysis

    15 March 2021
    Grid Connection, R&D

    DNV has analyzed 20,000 years of plausible weather and power production for the Massachusetts-based ISO New England (ISO-NE). With the completion of this project, which began at the end of 2019, ISO-NE can now understand the magnitude, frequency, and duration of events like cold snaps or heat waves which drive regional load, as well as […]

  • Ex-Coal Power Plant Site Starts Showing Offshore Wind Contours

    3 April 2020
    Ports & Logistics

    Demolition works at the site of the former Brayton Point coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts, U.S., are nearing completion, with grading activities scheduled to start soon.

  • Damen Targets US Offshore Wind with New Vessel Design

    26 November 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group has designed a new Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 3410 service accommodation and transfer vessel (SATV) with features that are said to ensure its suitability for operations in the developing offshore wind market in North America.

  • USA: BOEM Announces First Ever Offshore Wind Lease Sales in Two Areas

    2 December 2012
    Authorities

    As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau have announced competitive lease sales for renewable energy development in two wind energy areas (WEAs) in federal waters. […]