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  • K2 Management Hired as Technical Advisor on Japan’s First Commercial Scale Floating Wind Farm

    8 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    K2 Management has been hired as technical advisor on the Goto floating wind farm in Japan, the country’s first commercial scale floating wind farm. The Goto Floating Wind Farm LLC Consortium – comprising Toda Corporation, Eneos Corporation, Osaka Gas, Inpex Corporation, Kansai Electric Power, and Chubu Electric Power – was selected last year as the […]

  • US Warns UK Over Mingyang’s Proposed Wind Turbine Factory, Chinese Analyst Says National Security Concerns ‘Guise for Protectionism’ – Reports

    23 June 2025
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    The Trump administration has warned the UK government about security risks as Mingyang Smart Energy plans to build a factory in Scotland to manufacture wind turbines for North Sea offshore wind farms, according to a report by the Financial Times, citing a US official. A Chinese analyst has commented on the news, saying the talks […]

  • Australia Designates First Offshore Wind Zone, Gives Star of the South Major Project Status

    19 December 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Australia’s federal government and the Victoria state government, together with Wellington Shire Council, local community members, and industry have formally declared the Bass Strait off Gippsland as Australia’s first offshore wind zone and awarded Major Project Status to the Star of the South offshore wind farm. The declared area in Gippsland, Victora, covers about 15,000 […]

  • CS Wind Vietnam Rolls Out First Towers for South Korean Offshore Wind Farm

    15 April 2024
    Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    CS Wind’s yard in Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam, has produced the first wind turbine tower for an offshore wind farm that Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and SK E&S are building in South Korea. According to a social media post by Stuart Livesey, CEO of Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) Vietnam, CS Wind is manufacturing towers […]

  • Equinor Secures USD 3 Billion for New York City’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    3 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Equinor has secured a project financing package of over USD 3 billion (approximately EUR 2.9 billion) and reached financial close on Empire Wind 1, the first offshore wind farm to connect to New York City’s grid, which is already under construction after Equinor made a final investment decision (FID) on the project earlier this year. […]

  • FlyShip Says It Will Soon Roll Out First Crafts. Eyes Offshore Wind Crew Transfer

    15 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Vessels

    FlyShip, a Germany-based company which made news in 2016 with its novel (air)craft, has announced that it is about to receive its first order and will subsequently start producing first crafts of the FS-100 class. Upon informing of the upcoming order, FlyShip said it was looking at offshore wind crew transfer operations as one of the areas where its technology could be used.

  • Eversource Completes First Phase of New England Transmission Project to Facilitate Offshore Wind Integration

    22 May 2024
    Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure

    US energy and electric distribution company Eversource has completed the first phase of the Cape Cod Solution, one of two transmission projects currently under construction in New England that will allow for the interconnection of offshore wind. The other project is Revolution Wind, for which Eversource is also building the transmission infrastructure. Phase I of […]

  • Japan Enters New Offshore Wind Era as First Akita Noshiro Turbines Sail Out

    1 July 2022
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Wind farm installation vessel Seajacks Zaratan has left Akita Port in Japan loaded with the first sets of wind turbine components to be installed on the 140 MW Akita Noshiro offshore wind farm. Akita Noshiro comprises two sites off Akita Port and Noshiro Port. In total, the two wind farms will feature 33 MHI Vesta V117-4.2 MW wind […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Officially Opens Its First Offshore Nacelle Assembly Facility Outside Europe

    14 September 2021
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has inaugurated its facility for the assembly of offshore wind turbine nacelles in Taiwan, the company’s first such facility outside Europe. The official opening of the facility in Taichung, being held today (14 September), follows the completion of the assembly of the first nacelle in August. The construction work on Siemens […]

  • Siemens Gamesa First Tenant of Port of Esbjerg’s New Warehouse, Facility Now Under Construction

    21 October 2022
    Ports & Logistics

    Port of Esbjerg has started construction on a new warehouse facility that will be used for the offshore wind industry with Siemens Gamesa being its first tenant. The new warehouse will expand the port’s storage and assembly facilities to handle ever-growing components used in the offshore wind market. The 6,200-square-metre hall with a height of […]

  • India’s Oil & Gas Player Exploring Possibilities for Building Its First Offshore Wind Project

    3 September 2021

    As the offshore oil and gas sector continues to move forward with acting on both corporate and governmental energy transition strategies, the offshore wind sector is increasingly seeing new players entering the scene, one of the latest being an Indian oil and gas production company. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on […]

  • UK Mid-2020s OWFs Could Be First to Run with ‘Negative Subsidies’ and Lower Consumer Bills

    28 July 2020
    Business & Finance, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    The offshore wind farms that won the Contracts for Difference (CfDs) in the latest UK CfD round will most likely be the first to operate with “negative subsidies”, even before the zero-subsidy projects awarded in auctions in the Netherlands and Germany. According to an analysis by an international team led by Imperial College London researchers, […]

  • Dongfang Electric Piecing Together First 7 MW Typhoon-Resistant Offshore Wind Turbine

    13 April 2020
    R&D, Technology

    China’s Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) has reported that its first 7 MW offshore typhoon-resistant wind turbine has completed the assembly and commissioning of various sub-systems. The DEW-D7000-186, developed independently by DEC, has undergone the assembly and commissioning process at the company’s Fujian manufacturing base. According to DEC, the DEW-D7000-186 model is suitable for certain sea […]

  • Romania Adopts Offshore Wind Bill, Plans to Have First Project Up and Running by 2032

    11 April 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Romania’s Chamber of Deputies has adopted the Offshore Wind Energy Bill proposed by the Ministry of Energy, setting the country on the path to having its first offshore wind project built by 2032. Within three months from the date the new law enters into force, the Ministry of Energy will conduct a study which will […]

  • Damen Unveils New Fast Crew Supplier Class, First Unit Already Being Built

    2 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group is rolling out a new Fast Crew Supplier class – the FCS 2710 – an upgraded version of its FCS 2610. The first FCS 2710 is already under construction at Damen Shipyards Gorinchem and will be delivered to High Speed Transfers (HST) in July 2018.

  • Two Offshore Wind-to-Hydrogen Projects Withdraw from UK’s First Electrolytic Allocation Round

    18 August 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Power-to-X

    An Ørsted-Phillips 66 partnership and ERM have withdrawn their Gigastack and Dolphyn projects, respectively, from the UK’s first electrolytic allocation round (HAR1). While ERM has made the move as it aims at securing alternative funding for a phased multi-unit larger development, Ørsted and Phillips 66 have now halted their Gigastack project. Both projects involve producing […]

  • Protean Energy to Install Its First Wave Energy Conversion Platform North of Geraldton (Australia)

    12 August 2011

      WAVE energy projects are gaining a groundswell of interest, with locally designed technology starting to deliver stable power to the grid.   By Rebecca Le May (smh) [mappress] Source: smh, August 12, 2011

  • Bernhard Schulte’s Newly Delivered CSOV Starts North Sea Operations for TenneT

    27 June 2025
    Vessels

    Ulstein Verft has delivered the first of two commissioning service vessels (CSOVs) to Bernhard Schulte Offshore (BSO). The vessel is now being deployed for the Dutch-German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT to support its offshore grid connection facilities in the North Sea. The Windea Curie CSOV, which was christened on 26 June, features an […]

  • USA: ORPC Submits First Annual Environmental Report for Commercial, Grid-Connected Tidal Energy Project

    10 April 2013

    On March 26th, the Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) submitted its first annual environmental monitoring report for the Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which details the 2012 construction, installation, and operational activities of ORPC’s grid-connected TidGen™ Power System in Maine. The report describes environmental monitoring conducted during the […]

  • “Wind Lift I” reached the project site of the first commercial wind farm in the German North Sea

    29 March 2010
    Wind Farm Update

    Yesterday the BARD-jack-up-barge “Wind Lift I” reached the installation site of BARD Offshore 1, the first commercial wind farm in the German North Sea. The Windlift I left the Emden harbour in the late evening of  March 27th. to set for the project site, located about 100 km northwest of the island of Borkum where […]

  • MingYang Rolls Out First 99-Metre Blade for Its 11 MW Offshore Wind Turbine

    30 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Technology

    MingYang Smart Energy has produced the first 99-metre blade for its MySE 11MW-203 wind turbine at the Guangdong Shanwei offshore blade production facility in China. The company said its independently developed MySE 11-99A1 blade was designed for high-wind IEC IB sites and typhoon-class conditions, with extreme wind speed of 70 m/s or 156 mph. “MySE […]

  • Copenhagen Energy Sells Stake in First Offshore Wind Farm to Use Vestas 15 MW Turbines

    14 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Copenhagen Energy, a Danish energy trader and developer of solar, onshore wind, and offshore wind projects, has sold its stake in the Frederikshavn offshore wind farm, the first to feature Vestas’ 15 MW turbines. According to the company, the project marks the first major divestment for Copenhagen Energy. While the company did not specify who […]

  • N-Sea Picks UK Firm to Provide ‘World’s First DNV-Approved’ Cable Repair Equipment

    29 November 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Supply Chain

    The Netherlands-headquartered subsea solutions provider N-Sea has handed out a contract to Osbit, a UK-headquartered offshore wind equipment specialist and a Venterra Group company, for the delivery of a suite of equipment to enable the repair and lay of offshore cables. According to Osbit, this equipment consists of a novel dual concentric carousel, a tower […]

  • OGN Voices Concern over UK Content after First EA1 Foundation Contract Went to Spain

    3 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Senior management of Offshore Group Newcastle (OGN) and North Tyneside MP Mary Glindon had a meeting with UK Energy Minister Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe, as the company is worried about local content in UK offshore wind projects. OGN, which teamed up with Belgian Smulders this year, expressed its concern after the first East Anglia ONE foundation lot was […]

  • Statkraft Drops Plan to Bid in Norway’s Floating Wind Tender, Stops Activities in New Offshore Wind Projects

    18 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind

    Statkraft will stop further activities in new offshore wind projects, including the upcoming allocation round for floating wind projects at Utsira Nord in Norway, but will continue the development of the North Irish Sea Array (NISA), the Norwegian company said on 18 June. The move comes as Statkraft seeks to reduce its annual costs by […]

  • China Must Evaluate First Offshore Wind Projects Before Next Phase, Says Li Jufeng

    6 June 2012

    Speaking at the Offshore Wind China 2012 conference Li Jufeng, director of the China Renewable Energy Industries Association, said that the country must “evaluate” the results of its first offshore concession projects before issuing tenders for the next phase. “Officially, the first offshore concession projects still exist. But in reality, they have all ended,” said […]