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  • Dominion Energy, NextEra Energy Agree Merger Deal

    18 May 2026
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom

    NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy, the developer of the biggest US offshore wind farm, have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction that would create what the companies describe as the world’s largest regulated electric utility business. Under the agreement, Dominion Energy shareholders will receive 0.8138 shares of NextEra Energy for […]

  • Fraunhofer IWES Completes Wind Measurement Campaign for Estonian Project

    20 April 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) has completed a site condition monitoring campaign in Liivi Bay, Estonia, for the Liivi offshore wind farm project, commissioned by Enefit. The campaign, conducted from October 2024 to December 2025, involved the deployment of the Stage 3+ Wind LiDAR Buoy together with co-deployed oceanographic sensors to collect […]

  • ProCon and Hyndla Complete Merger Under IWS Services Banner

    6 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Business development

    Danish electrical engineering specialist ProCon Group and Norwegian company Hyndla have completed an all-share merger to form an integrated electrical solutions provider targeting the offshore wind industry, IWS Services, the 75-per-cent-owner of ProCon said on 5 January.   The combined business will operate under the parent company brand. Following the transaction, IWS Services, the offshore […]

  • New Offshore Wind Environmental Compensation Rules Go Into Force in UK

    21 May 2026
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    New legislation aimed at accelerating offshore wind development while expanding environmental compensation options has come into effect in the UK, the government announced on 21 May. “After two fossil fuel crises in five years, we are driving further and faster for clean homegrown power that we control to protect the British people and bring down […]

  • Repowering Existing Offshore Wind Farms Part of New EU Strategy ‘to Protect Europeans from Fossil Energy Crisis’

    23 April 2026
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The European Commission has identified offshore wind repowering as one of the key measures to strengthen energy security and reduce reliance on fossil fuel imports, as part of its newly unveiled AccelerateEU strategy. Announcing the strategy on 22 April, the Commission highlighted the rapid repowering of large renewable assets, including offshore wind farms, as a […]

  • Akrocean to Start Floating LiDAR Campaign at 500 MW Vietnamese Offshore Wind Site

    28 May 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    REE Corporation will soon begin a wind measurement and metocean campaign at the site where it plans to build its 500 MW Nam Bo 3 offshore wind project. The developer has contracted Akrocean to deploy its floating LiDAR at the project site, in partnership with the Vietnamese company Phuc Anh JSC. The measurement campaign, which […]

  • Azerbaijan Kicks Off Offshore Wind Measurement Campaign with EOLOS Floating LiDAR Deployed in Caspian Sea

    15 May 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    EOLOS Floating LiDAR Solutions has commissioned its FLS200 integrated floating LiDAR buoy at an offshore wind development site of Azerbaijan Green Energy Company (AGEC) in the Caspian Sea. The Spanish floating LiDAR provider said the campaign was the first offshore wind site assessment initiative of its kind in the region. EOLOS secured the contract in […]

  • UK Removes Tariffs on Offshore Wind Manufacturing Components

    12 March 2026
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    The UK government will remove tariffs on a range of industrial goods used in offshore wind manufacturing in a move aimed at reducing costs for the sector and supporting the country’s targets. According to the Department for Business and Trade, tariffs on 33 industrial goods used in offshore wind will be removed from 1 April […]

  • Vattenfall Running Transition Piece Workflow Trials Ahead of Nordlicht I Offshore Construction

    23 April 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has initiated a transition piece mock-up for its Nordlicht offshore wind project at CS Wind Offshore’s facility in Aalborg, Denmark, as part of preparations for offshore installation works. The onshore testing programme is designed to simulate key installation, safety and working procedures before offshore construction begins. The transition pieces, manufactured by CS Wind Offshore […]

  • TGS’ German Bight Floating LiDAR Campaign Hits Two-Year Mark

    27 April 2026
    Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    Norway-headquartered TGS has marked the two-year milestone of what it describes as the world’s most extensive multi-client floating LiDAR and metocean measurement campaign. The campaign, located in the German Bight, has seen two floating LiDAR buoys deliver more than 96 per cent data availability since deployment, according to TGS. The company says the data is […]

  • Virginia Passes Bill to Advance Offshore Wind Workforce Development

    31 March 2026
    Authorities, Jobs & Recruitment

    Virginia lawmakers have passed a bill to advance workforce development in the offshore wind industry. The bill (HB67), which passed both the Virginia House of Delegates and the State Senate in March and is now awaiting the Governor’s signature, introduces a measure focused on assessing workforce and training needs for the offshore wind sector. The […]

  • Thialf Installs First Foundations at Poland’s Bałtyk 2 & 3 Offshore Wind Farms

    26 May 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Heerema Marine Contractors’ heavy-lift vessel Thialf has installed the first foundations at the Bałtyk 2 & 3 offshore wind farms, owned by Equinor and Polenergia, which said on 25 May that “the first dozen sets of monopiles and transition pieces” were in place at the project site in the Polish Baltic Sea. The monopiles, measuring […]

  • Envision Sends Off First Batch of 8 MW Turbines for Vietnam’s New Nearshore Wind Farm

    12 June 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Envision Energy has sent the first four sets of its EN-226/8.X MW offshore wind turbines for the 128 MW Vinh Long nearshore wind project in Vietnam, developed by REE Group. According to the wind turbine supplier, this marks the start of equipment delivery for the project, which will comprise 16 turbines and, once operational, is […]

  • EU Approves EUR 5 Billion Danish Offshore Wind CfD Scheme

    24 March 2026
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Planning & Permitting

    The European Commission has approved a EUR 5 billion Danish state aid scheme to support the development of offshore wind. The measure, cleared under the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework (CISAF), will support the construction and operation of two offshore wind farms, Hesselø and North Sea I Mid (Nordsøen I Midt). The two […]

  • Petrovietnam, Vietnam Electricity Assigned Sea Areas for Offshore Wind Site Investigations

    27 January 2026
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The Government of Vietnam has assigned sea areas for offshore wind surveys to two state-owned companies, Petrovietnam and Vietnam Electricity (EVN), which are allowed to conduct site investigations for their projects for up to three years without needing to pay concession fees. EVN has been granted 240 square kilometres of sea area offshore the Long […]

  • Dutch Gov’t Plans Single-Site Tender in September, Temporary Subsidy Mechanism to Support 1 GW of Offshore Wind

    19 January 2026
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The Dutch government plans to launch a subsidy-based, 1 GW offshore wind tender in September to ensure its success before the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme, on which the government is working, is implemented from mid-2027. According to the Dutch Minister of Climate Policy and Green Growth, the temporary measure is necessary to maintain the momentum […]

  • 80 Turbines Installed at Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

    15 April 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Eighty wind turbines have been installed at the Sofia offshore wind farm site, located on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, where 100 units of the Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD model will be installed for a total capacity of 1.4 GW. The vessel deployed for the work, Cadeler’s Wind Peak, installed the first wind turbine […]

  • Fugro Secures Offshore Wind Work in Brazil as Petrobras Moves Forward with 18 MW Pilot Project

    1 April 2026
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Petrobras has awarded a contract to Fugro for a geotechnical site investigation for the Brazilian oil major’s first offshore wind project, a pilot proposed to be built off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro. According to Fugro, the 18 MW Rio de Janeiro offshore wind pilot project is the first offshore wind […]

  • China Three Gorges Installs ‘World’s Largest’ Single-Unit Floating Wind Platform Offshore Yangjiang

    6 May 2026
    Business development, Floating Wind, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation has completed the installation of a 16 MW floating offshore wind turbine, described as the world’s largest single-unit floating wind turbine platform, off Yangjiang, Guangdong. The Sanxia Linghang (Three Gorges Pilot) platform was installed on 2 May in waters located more than 70 kilometres offshore at depths exceeding 50 metres, […]

  • US Company Granted Offshore Wind Survey Licence in Vietnam

    16 April 2026
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    US-based Pacifico Energy has received a site survey licence for a 500 MW offshore wind project in Ba Ria–Vung Tau, offshore Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The licence, granted by Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAE), allows the company to carry out site survey assessment activities at the proposed project site. According to Pacifico […]

  • Construction Progressing on World’s First Artificial Energy Island

    18 June 2026
    Energy Islands, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Project Updates

    Seventeen of the total of 23 caissons have been installed at the Princess Elisabeth Island site, 45 kilometres off the Belgian coast, where TM Edison, a consortium of DEME and Jan De Nul, is building the first artificial energy island in the world. Developed by Belgium grid operator Elia Group, Princess Elisabeth Island will serve […]

  • First Foundations Installed at 1.5 GW Polish Offshore Wind Farm

    11 May 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Major offshore construction work has started on the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, developed by Ørsted and PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna, as Van Oord has installed the first monopile foundations at the project site in the Polish Baltic Sea. The offshore installation campaign, for which Van Oord is using its vessels Aeolus and […]

  • DEME Takes Delivery of Second New WTIV, Both Vessels to Start Offshore Wind Work in First Half of 2026

    16 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    DEME has taken delivery of its second new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Norse Energi, at the CIMC Raffles Shipyard in China, after the first WTIV, Norse Wind, was delivered last year. The company’s new vessels are already contracted on offshore wind projects and will start working in the first half of 2026. Norse Energi […]

  • Consent Granted for Substation to Connect Three New Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farms to UK Grid

    23 June 2026
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates

    National Grid has received planning consent for the new Birkhill Wood substation in East Yorkshire, which will connect 4.22 GW of offshore wind capacity from three planned North Sea wind farms to the UK grid. Birkhill Wood will serve as the grid connection point for RWE and Masdar’s Dogger Bank South East and Dogger Bank […]

  • Danish Test Centre Launches Main Bearing Testing Facility for Offshore Wind Turbines of Up to 25 MW

    30 March 2026
    Business development, Research & Development, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Turbines

    Lindø Offshore Renewables Center (LORC) has inaugurated a new main bearing test facility capable of full-scale validation of wind turbine bearings for units of up to 25 MW. R&D Test Systems was in charge of the design, engineering, and delivery of the complete facility, while Schaeffler provided application knowledge, which formed the foundation for the […]

  • Jan De Nul Installs Export Cables for Taiwan’s Fengmiao 1 Offshore Wind Farm

    27 April 2026
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul has completed the installation of two export cables for the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm, being built by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) 35 kilometres off the coast of Taichung, Taiwan. The two high-voltage subsea cables, measuring 45 kilometres and 44 kilometres, have been installed and are currently wet stored offshore, awaiting installation […]