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  • SRE Submits Contract for 800 MW Taiwanese Offshore Wind Project

    12 November 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    Synera Renewable Energy Group (SRE Group) has submitted the administrative contract for the 800 MW Formosa 6 offshore wind project to Taiwan’s Energy Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs. The submission of the administrative contract, which is said to be on schedule, comes at a critical juncture in addressing the export sector’s demands for renewable power […]

  • Monopile Installation Continues at Vineyard Wind 1 Site Offshore US

    28 October 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    The DP3 installation vessel Orion, owned and operated by the Belgian offshore construction specialist DEME, is scheduled to begin installing the remaining monopile foundations at the Vineyard Wind 1 site in the US on or around 28 October, as disclosed in the project’s recent offshore wind mariner update. Prior to installation, the POLARIS and HOS RUGER […]

  • Dominion Energy Plans to Add 3.4 GW of New Offshore Wind

    17 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Research & Development

    In its 2024 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) and the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC), Dominion Energy Virginia laid out multiple portfolio options to meet rising power demand through investments in new power generation, including offshore wind. The IRP is based on a forecast developed by PJM, which […]

  • New Law Opens Path for Offshore Wind Development in Atlantic Canada

    4 October 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    A new law enabling the development of offshore wind projects in Atlantic Canada has received Royal Assent from the Canadian government and is now in effect. Bill C-49 expands the mandate of offshore boards in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador to include renewable energy projects, ensuring a consistent regulatory regime in federal-provincial jointly managed […]

  • RWE Signs Foundation Agreement with Steelwind for Future Offshore Wind Farms

    2 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Foundations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    RWE has signed a capacity reservation agreement with the German company Steelwind Nordenham, for the production of up to 300 monopile foundations for its future offshore wind projects in Europe. Under the agreement, Steelwind will reserve capacity at its German monopile production facility in Nordenham for 320,000 tonnes of steel, equivalent to approximately 200 monopiles, […]

  • TWP Presses Ahead with 1 GW Bowdun Offshore Wind Project

    17 September 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) has submitted the offshore scoping report to the Scottish Government’s Marine Directorate Licensing & Operations team for its 1 GW Bowdun offshore wind project. The development follows the announcement last week regarding the submission of the onshore scoping report to Aberdeenshire Council for the site. Located 44 kilometres east of Stonehaven, […]

  • Finland Unveils 17-Point Action Plan to Promote Offshore Wind

    22 August 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Industry, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    On 20 August, Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment published an action plan focused on advancing the offshore wind industry in the country. The plan outlines 17 proposals, emphasizing that the development of offshore wind farms will be driven by market conditions. In October 2023, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment appointed a […]

  • World’s Largest Floating Wind Farm Entering Offshore Construction Phase

    25 March 2022
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore construction on the 88 MW Hywind Tampen floating wind farm is set to start next week with the transport and installation of the suction anchors at the site located about 140 kilometres off the Norwegian coast, DOF Subsea said. The subsea AHTS vessel Skandi Skansen and the DOF Subsea team are currently preparing to […]

  • SCHOTTEL, Lyon Shipyard Team Up to Support US Offshore Wind

    25 March 2022
    Business & Finance

    SCHOTTEL has reached an agreement with Virginia-based Lyon Shipyard to support the servicing of vessels in the emerging US offshore wind industry. SCHOTTEL, headquartered in Germany, is a manufacturing company that produces propulsion and steering systems for ships and offshore applications, while Lyon Shipyard acts as a full-service ship repair facility. According to SCHOTTEL, operating […]

  • New Bill in Massachusetts Raises Offshore Wind Target to 5.6 GW

    9 March 2022
    Authorities

    A new bill setting an offshore wind capacity target of 5.6 GW by 2027 in Massachusetts has passed the state’s House of Representatives and its next stop is the Governor’s desk, before it is enacted into law. The bill H4515, titled An Act advancing offshore wind and clean energy, requires state utilities to enter into […]

  • Danish Developer Proposes 3+GW Wind Farm Offshore Australia

    8 March 2022
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Denmark’s Copenhagen Energy A/S has set in motion the plan to develop an offshore wind farm with a capacity in excess of 3 GW off Western Australia. Leeuwin Offshore Wind Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Copenhagen Energy, is proposing the construction, operation, and decommissioning of the Leeuwin offshore wind farm within Geographe Bay, off […]

  • Neptune Energy, RWE Unveil Offshore Wind-to-Hydrogen Project in the Netherlands

    15 February 2022
    Contracts & Tenders

    Neptune Energy and RWE have signed a Joint Development Agreement to develop a green hydrogen project which will use offshore wind energy for the production of hydrogen in the Dutch sector of the North Sea and an existing pipeline to transport the hydrogen to land. The project, called H2opZee and supported by the Dutch government […]

  • US CTV Operator’s Offshore Wind Fleet Gets Orion Backing

    11 February 2022
    Vessels

    The US crew transfer vessel (CTV) owner and operator American Offshore Services (A-O-S) has entered into a strategic partnership with Orion Infrastructure Capital to build what are said to be “state-of-the-art CTVs designed to transport technicians and materials in varied offshore conditions”. Under the arrangement, Orion will provide financing to build a series of CTVs […]

  • University of Malta Studying Role of CO2 in Offshore Energy Storage Development

    10 February 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Researchers at the University of Malta have kicked off research to assess how the significant amounts of CO2 available from carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities may support offshore energy storage systems co-located within the same footprint of wind farms. The Investigating the thermal performance of Subsea Energy Storage Accumulators with a 2-Phase Fluid Transition […]

  • SMC Wins New Offshore Wind Contracts with Ørsted and Siemens Gamesa

    3 February 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    UK-based Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) has won contracts with Ørsted and Siemens Gamesa to provide support on wind farms offshore the UK. Ørsted awarded SMC with a framework agreement to provide statutory inspection and auxiliary services to its sites across the UK. This is the second multi-year framework agreement following the one in 2019. Ørsted’s […]

  • First Turbines Assembled for Hywind Tampen Floating Offshore Wind Farm

    23 May 2022
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The first wind turbines have been assembled for the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm offshore Norway, Siemens Gamesa said. The 94.6 MW Hywind Tampen will feature a total of 11 Siemens Gamesa 8.6 MW wind turbines installed on concrete SPAR-type floating foundations some 140 kilometres off the Norwegian coast, in water depths of between 260 […]

  • Hong Kong Could Get First Offshore Wind Farm in 2027

    9 May 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The Hongkong Electric Company (HK Electric), one of Hong Kong’s two main electricity providers, has revealed plans to develop and commission a 150 MW offshore wind farm by 2027. The wind farm will be located southwest of Lamma Island in water depths ranging from 17 to 22 metres in an area with average wind speeds […]

  • Colombia’s First Offshore Wind Farm to Power Green Ammonia Production

    4 May 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Colombian producer of fertilizers, Monómeros, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Public Lighting of Barranquilla (APBAQ), which plans to build Colombia’s first offshore wind farm in the waters off the city of Barranquilla together with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). Under the MoU, Monómeros will build a new plant worth around USD 300 million […]

  • Floating Offshore Hydrogen Production Plant Design Gets ClassNK Nod

    4 April 2022
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    Classification society ClassNK has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of a floating offshore hydrogen production plant developed by Japan Offshore Design & Engineering Platform Technology & Engineering Research Association (J-DeEP). The amount of power generated by offshore wind turbines is likely affected by weather conditions, and surplus electricity may be generated […]

  • Lithuanian Government Clears Path for First Offshore Wind Farm in 2028

    1 April 2022
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    On 31 March, the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) approved a package of laws for the development of offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea and gave the green light to the country’s first offshore wind farm. The bill now adopted by the Seimas are amendments to the Laws on Renewable Energy and Electricity which set out […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Turbines Selected for Moray West Offshore Wind Farm

    21 October 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Moray West, an offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, Scotland, has selected Siemens Gamesa as the preferred bidder for the supply of offshore wind turbines. Subject to the award of a Contract for Difference in 2022 and Financial Close, the wind farm would feature Siemens Gamesa’s latest offshore Direct Drive wind turbines, including […]

  • Navantia and EOLOS Bringing Unmanned Technology to Offshore Wind O&M

    29 September 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Spain’s naval services provider Navantia and EOLOS Floating Lidar Solutions SL have signed an agreement for the development and commercial exploitation of services devoted to the inspection, diagnosis, and monitoring of offshore wind farms around the world using and operating unmanned marine vehicles combined with advanced meteorological data acquisition systems. The two companies have signed […]

  • Monopile Load-Out Starts for Italy’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    24 September 2021
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The load-out of the first monopiles for the Taranto offshore wind farm onto the MPI Resolution vessel has started, according to a social media update from MPI Offshore on 23 September. The first batch of monopiles for the 30 MW offshore wind farm in Italy arrived at the Port of Taranto last month, after they […]

  • Vattenfall Working on Hydrogen Demo Project at Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm

    5 January 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall is working on a hydrogen demonstrator project named Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1), which involves installing hydrogen production equipment on one of the wind turbines at its Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre) in Scotland. The company has already submitted a couple of applications for pipeline route surveys with Marine Scotland, as […]

  • Northern Ireland Wants in on GB’s Offshore Wind Contract for Difference Scheme

    20 December 2021
    Authorities

    The government of Northern Ireland is currently working with the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to explore whether the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, currently operating in Great Britain, could be extended to include Northern Ireland, which is eyeing to be included in the next CfD allocation round in 2023. Northern […]

  • Prototype DemoSATH Floating Offshore Wind Foundation Taking Shape – Video

    17 December 2021
    R&D, Technology

    The construction of the prototype DemoSATH floating offshore wind platform is progressing at the Port of Bilbao in Spain, with the assembly of the precast elements of the foundation’s hull now completed, Saitec Offshore said. This assembly consisted of lifting, pivoting, and positioning the six precast elements. DemoSATH prototype consists of two hulls, each having […]