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  • Australia’s ‘Most Advanced Offshore Wind Project’ Files for Environmental Approval

    17 December 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Star of the South, said to be Australia’s “most advanced offshore wind project”, has submitted its Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for approval, the primary environmental approval required for the project to proceed. According to the developer, this comes off the back of a few other milestones the project recently achieved, one of which is the […]

  • Australia’s First Offshore Wind Tender Scheduled for August

    27 January 2026
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Supply Chain

    The Australian state of Victoria will open an offshore wind tender in August 2026 for an initial 2 GW of capacity, Victoria’s Minister for Energy and Resources announced on 27 January. In December 2025, Australia’s Energy Ministers provided in-principle support for the Electricity Services Entry Mechanism (ESEM), providing a pathway for new renewable energy projects, […]

  • Victorian Gov’t Delays Launch of First Offshore Wind Auction

    16 September 2025
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The Victorian government has postponed its first offshore wind auction, which was originally set to launch in September, according to Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio. Victoria has set a target of at least 2 GW of offshore wind energy by 2032, raising this up to 4 GW by 2035 and 9 GW by 2040. Energy Minister […]

  • South Korean Companies Enter Offshore Wind Partnership

    19 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Vessels

    Korea-headquartered Hanwha Ocean has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its compatriot Hyundai Engineering & Construction (Hyundai E&C) to strengthen the country’s offshore wind supply chain and promote localisation. Through this MoU, the two companies agreed to establish a domestic offshore wind engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) partnership, starting with the Shinan Ui offshore […]

  • TechWorks Marine Kicks Off Survey at 900 MW Irish Offshore Wind Site

    5 November 2025
    Business development, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Research & Development

    TechWorks Marine has started a year-long metocean survey in Maritime Area A – Tonn Nua on Ireland’s South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan (SC-DMAP) to support EirGrid’s Powering Up Offshore South Coast project. The company was commissioned by Fugro, EirGrid’s appointed marine survey supplier, to deliver baseline oceanographic and environmental data for offshore substations and […]

  • Vestas Receives Order for South Korean Offshore Wind Project

    29 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Vestas has received a wind turbine order for the Shinan-Ui offshore wind project, which marks the company’s first offshore wind order in South Korea. The 390 MW Shinan-Ui will be built off Jeollanam Province by a consortium consisting of Hanwha Ocean, SK Eternix, KOMIPO (Korea Midland Power Co., Ltd.), Future Energy Fund, and Hyundai Engineering […]

  • TenneT’s 900 MW German Offshore Grid Connection System Fully Energised

    17 October 2025
    Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    The Dutch/German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT Germany has commenced the commissioning of the 900 MW DolWin5 offshore grid connection system. Following the completion of the installation campaign in the summer, the consortium of Aibel and Seatrium, together with Hitachi Energy and TenneT, started commissioning as planned in the autumn, said the TSO. In addition […]

  • CIP Secures Project Site in Colombia’s First Offshore Wind Tender

    17 December 2025
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Supply Chain

    Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has secured the site for which it placed a bid in Colombia’s first offshore wind tender, according to the latest document issued by the country’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH). ANH released a final eligibility list on 16 December, naming CIP’s subsidiary CI GMF COÖPERATIEF UA as the eligible bidder to receive […]

  • 500 MW South Korean Offshore Wind Farm Secures Power Purchase Agreements

    9 September 2025

    Taean Wind Power, a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Vena Energy, has signed Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) totalling 500 MW for its offshore wind project in South Korea. The agreements cover 300 MW with Korea West Power and 200 MW with Gangneung Eco Power. “This milestone secures the long-term power offtake for […]

  • Fugro Completes First Phase of Detailed Geotechnical Surveys at Dogger Bank South East

    22 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro has completed the first phase of geotechnical site investigations at the Dogger Bank South (DBS) East offshore wind farm site, located over 100 kilometres off the northeastern coast of England. The first round of geotechnical surveys started in May and was carried out by the vessel Fugro Revelation, which departed the site on 13 […]

  • Canada’s First Designated Offshore Wind Zones Located Off Nova Scotia

    30 July 2025
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The Government of Canada and the Province of Nova Scotia have designated the first four offshore wind areas to be made available for development, with a call for bids expected by the end of the year. Three of the identified areas are situated south of Nova Scotia’s eastern mainland, while the fourth is located to […]

  • Construction of ‘Asia’s Largest HVDC Cable Facility’ Wraps Up

    21 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    South Korean subsea cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has completed the construction of what it says is the largest high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable production facility in Asia. LS Cable & System announced on 16 July that it had completed the construction of its fifth submarine cable plant in Donghae-si, Gangwon-do, more than quadrupling […]

  • Equinor Sues US Gov’t Over Empire Wind 1 Construction Halt

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

    Equinor has filed a civil suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the order that suspended construction on five offshore wind projects, including its Empire Wind 1, which is now more than 60 per cent complete. As part of the case, Empire Offshore Wind LLC, an Equinor subsidiary that filed the civil suit on […]

  • Trump Administration Stops Construction on 80-Pct-Complete Offshore Wind Farm

    23 August 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Only days after Ørsted reported in its half-year results that Revolution Wind was at 80 per cent of completion, the US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a stop-work order halting all offshore construction activities on the 704 MW project that is scheduled to start feeding electricity into Connecticut […]

  • Equinor Books USD 955 Million Empire Wind Impairment

    23 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor has reported a net operating income of USD 5.72 billion (around EUR 4.88 billion) in the second quarter of 2025, down from USD 7.66 billion (around EUR 6.53 billion) in the same quarter last year, with this quarter’s figures including an impairment of USD 955 million (around EUR 814 million) related to the company’s […]

  • Fugro to Survey Irish Seabed for Future Offshore Wind Farms

    15 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Cables, Environment, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Offshore Platforms, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Fugro has secured a seven-year framework agreement with Irish transmission system operator (TSO) EirGrid to perform surveys for a project that will develop offshore electricity substations and export cable routes to connect Ireland’s future offshore wind farms on the south coast to the national grid. For the Powering Up Offshore – South Coast project, Fugro […]

  • Ten Most Read News on offshoreWIND.biz in 2025

    1 January 2026
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Foundations, Grid Connection, Industry, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment, Manufacturing, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, R&D, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    OffshoreWIND.biz has millions of views per year and hundreds of thousands per month. In 2025, some stories received significantly bigger attention than others, and in this overview, we are bringing the ten most popular news in the now-past year. In August, only days after Ørsted reported that Revolution Wind was at 80 per cent of […]

  • RWE, Masdar Move Forward with 3 GW Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind Farms

    15 July 2025
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The UK’s Planning Inspectorate has concluded its six-month Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) examination period for the Dogger Bank South (DBS) offshore wind farms, being developed by RWE and Abu Dhabi’s Masdar. Since the start of the examination this January, the Planning Inspectorate has assessed the environmental, socio-economic, and technical attributes of the DBS projects […]

  • LS Marine Solution to Install Cables at 390 MW South Korean Offshore Wind Farm

    9 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain

    LS Marine Solution has been selected as the preferred bidder for the submarine cable installation work at the Shinan Ui offshore wind project in South Korea. The 390 MW offshore wind farm is being developed by a consortium led by Hanwha Ocean and SK Eternics. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2025, with submarine cable […]

  • Pacifico Energy Korea Partners with Local Governments on 3.2 GW Offshore Wind Project

    20 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Research & Development

    Pacifico Energy Korea has signed an agreement with three local governments to explore practical cooperation measures for administrative support of its 3.2 GW offshore wind cluster project currently under development in Jundo-gun, Jeollanam-do, and to help establish an offshore wind industry ecosystem in the region. The cooperation agreement for the development of the offshore wind […]

  • Ventyr Taps Norconsult for Sørlige Nordsjø II Onshore Grid Design

    11 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    Ventyr Energy (Ventyr Energi), a consortium consisting of Parkwind and Ingka Investments, has selected Norconsult to carry out the design and planning of the onshore grid infrastructure for the Sørlige Nordsjø II (Southern North Sea II) offshore wind farm in Norway. Just over a year after Ventyr secured the rights to develop Norway’s first large-scale […]

  • LS Marine Solution Invests EUR 221 Million in New High-Spec Cable Laying Vessel

    2 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Grid Connection, Vessels

    South Korean subsea cable installation company LS Marine Solution is investing KRW 345.8 billion (approximately EUR 221 million) in a cable laying vessel (CLV) with a load capacity of 13,000 tonnes. The company said on 27 May that the decision to invest in the new CLV comes as LS Marine Solution aims to expand its […]

  • Wind Energy Ireland Warns Offshore Targets at Risk Without Urgent Government Action

    27 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Industry

    Ireland’s offshore wind energy ambitions are in jeopardy unless the government takes immediate and decisive action, Wind Energy Ireland (WEI) has warned. The industry organisation issued the warning at the launch of its new Offshore Wind Action Plan on 27 May, at the start of its annual Offshore Wind Conference in Dublin. While acknowledging policy […]

  • 18 GW of New Offshore Wind Could Be Developed Off Ireland’s Coast

    28 May 2025
    Authorities, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    Ireland’s Department of Environment, Climate and Communications has released the Offshore Wind Technical Resource Assessment, providing detailed analysis and recommendations that estimate an additional 3.5 GW to 18 GW of fixed-bottom offshore wind could be developed around the country’s coast. The assessment concludes that there could be an additional 3.5-18 GW of fixed-bottom offshore wind […]

  • Ørsted Preparing Seabed for Hornsea Three Export Cable

    28 May 2025
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Preparation work for the installation of the Hornsea Three export cable is underway with boulder and debris relocation, and a geophysical survey starting this month, following the completion of UXO clearance work. An installation campaign to replace blanking plates from the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) ducts with bell-mouths is scheduled to begin in June. Export […]

  • Consortium Forms to Bid in French AO9 Offshore Wind Tender

    23 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Floating Wind

    French renewable energy developer Qair and Italy’s Eni Plenitude have formed a consortium to participate in the French AO9 offshore wind tender, which was opened in July 2024. At the start of 2025, the total capacity allocated via offshore wind tenders in France amounts to around 5.34 GW. With the inclusion of the AO9 and […]