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  • Equinor Exits Vietnamese Offshore Wind Market

    26 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom

    Equinor has decided to leave the offshore wind market in Vietnam and close its office in Hanoi, following a review of its renewable energy portfolio and with the industry “facing significant headwinds”, a company spokesperson told Reuters. The Norwegian state-owned energy company established an office in Hanoi in May 2022 to pursue opportunities within offshore […]

  • Vietnam and Mainstream Staging Offshore Wind Event

    28 April 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Mainstream Renewable Power and Vietnam’s Department of Foreign Affairs for Provinces have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to stage a capacity-building event to increase regional government engagement in the development of offshore wind. The focus of the event, which is expected to be held in the second half of the year, will be to […]

  • 73% of New Jerseyans Support Offshore Wind

    21 September 2017
    Ports & Logistics

    A new poll, carried out by Fairleigh Dickinson University for ReThink Energy NJ, has shown there is a major public support for offshore wind in New Jersey. 

  • Connecticut House Nods to 2GW of Offshore Wind

    15 May 2019
    Authorities

    The Connecticut House of Representatives has voted 134-10 in favour of legislation authorizing the development of 2,000MW of wind capacity offshore Connecticut. The legislation, House Bill 7156, An Act Concerning the Procurement of Energy Derived From Offshore Wind, will next be referred to the State Senate. It ensures that the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) must […]

  • WavEC, LOC Join Forces for Offshore Wind

    30 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Portugal-based WavEC Offshore Renewables and LOC Group, headquartered in London, UK, have entered a partnership with a focus on marine renewable energies, especially offshore wind.

  • RenewableUK 2014 Successful for GEV Wind Power

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    RenewableUK 2014 proved a huge success for GEV Wind Power, which launched its pioneering turbine habitat at the Manchester show. GEV attracted the attention of senior parliamentarians, welcoming the Prime Minister’s Envoy on Climate Change, Greg Barker, and Shadow Energy Minister, Tom Greatrex, to its stand, both of whom were treated to an interactive experience […]

  • UK and China Bolster Offshore Wind Ties

    5 September 2018
    R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    The UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is partnering with China’s Tus-Wind to establish the TUS-ORE Catapult Technology Research Centre in Yantai, Shandong Province.

  • Europe Sees 1.9GW Offshore Wind Boost

    25 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    Europe added 1.9GW of new offshore wind capacity in the first half of 2019, up from the 1.1GW installed in the same period last year, according to WindEurope. Countries that contributed to the new installations are the UK with 931MW, including Ørsted’s Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, Denmark with 374MW, Belgium with 370MW and Germany […]

  • SeaState Moves Closer to Offshore Wind Action

    17 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Denmark-based offshore aviation consulting and safety assurance provider SeaState Aviation has opened offices in London and Hamburg, reflecting the company’s increased focus on offshore wind and oil & gas markets in the UK and Germany. “We have seen an increasing demand for our project management, audit, certification and inspection services from the offshore wind and […]

  • BNEF: Offshore Wind Financing Skyrockets in 2020

    13 July 2020
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind financings in the first six months of 2020 totaled USD 35 billion, up by a record 319% year-on-year, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF). The BNEF data shows that offshore wind had by far its busiest half-year ever for final investment decisions, well above 2019’s record full-year figure, a revised USD 31.9 billion. The first […]

  • Gannets Steer Clear of Offshore Wind Turbines

    8 February 2018
    Environment, R&D, Technology

    APEM has released a study suggesting that four times fewer Northern gannets collide with offshore wind turbines than previously thought.

  • Schmidbauer Muscle for French Floating Wind Farm

    27 January 2021
    Ports & Logistics

    Siemens Gamesa has contracted Schmidbauer to provide heavy load logistics on the Provence Grand Large floating wind project in France. EDF Renouvelables is developing the 25 MW Provence Grand Large project in the Faraman area in the Mediterranean Sea, some 17 kilometres from the Napoléon beach in the town of Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône. The project will feature […]

  • Groene Wind SWATH Touches Water – Video

    7 October 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Cemre Shipyard has shared the video of the recent launching of DEME’s Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) vessel Groene Wind in Yalova, Turkey. Once delivered in 2021, the 60-metre Groene Wind will start a charter with Siemens Gamesa to service the Rentel and the SeaMade wind farms in the Belgian North Sea. The vessel, […]

  • BOEM to Update on Hawaiian Offshore Wind Projects

    12 May 2015
    Authorities, Wind Farm Update

    The third BOEM/Hawaii Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at the Homer A. Maxey International Trade Resource Center located at Pier 2, 521 Ala Moana Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii. BOEM will present information on two unsolicited lease requests for wind energy projects proposed offshore Oahu received in January, and […]

  • No Showstoppers for Estonian-Latvian Offshore Wind Development

    14 March 2022
    R&D

    BLIX Consultancy has found no issues stopping Estonia and Latvia from building offshore wind and related transmission infrastructure in the countries’ sectors of the Baltic Sea. This is according to a four-tier study commissioned by Elering AS and Augstsprieguma tīkls (AST), which consists of an offshore technology catalogue, review of high-level planning, Pre-FEED study and Right-of-way […]

  • UK: Fast dealing in wind farm applications

    23 April 2010
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment

    Wind farms are much easier to build in Britain than in most of the rest of Europe, according to a study that contradicts claims by the…   Source: timesonline, April 23, 2010;

  • Volkswagen and Audi to Invest into Wind Power (Germany)

    13 May 2011
    Business & Finance

    Auto maker Volkswagen plans a major shift towards green energy by investing in wind farms and selling the electricity as part of a … (thelocal) [mappress] Source: thelocal, May 13, 2011

  • Cape Wind Backers Shutting Down (USA)

    23 December 2011
    Business & Finance

      The pro-Cape Wind group Clean Power Now has announced it is shutting down at the end of the year.   By Patrick Cassidy (capecodonline) [mappress] Source: capecodonline, December 23, 2011

  • OEUK Publishes Offshore Wind Decommissioning Guidelines

    25 November 2024
    Business development, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Research & Development

    Decommissioning specialists, led by Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), have produced a “pioneering” set of guidelines for the removal of offshore wind turbines that have reached the end of their useful life. Decommissioning of the first generation of wind turbines is already in progress, and as the offshore wind industry develops, there will be a continuous […]

  • Wind to blow 20,000 new jobs (UK)

    19 August 2010
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    THE emerging offshore wind industry could generate 20,000 jobs across the country within a decade, it has been claimed.The Scottish… (scotsman) [mappress] Source: scotsman, August 19, 2010;

  • MMT to Survey Dutch Offshore Wind Zone

    3 July 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency has awarded MMT with a contract to perform a geophysical soil investigation of the Ten Noorden van de Waddeneilanden wind farm zone. Project preparations are currently underway, with the fieldwork planned to be performed in July and August from MMT’s survey vessel Franklin. The geophysical survey comprises the collection of high-resolution bathymetry […]

  • Japan Identifies Eleven Offshore Wind Areas

    31 July 2019
    Authorities

    The Japanese government has designated eleven areas as potentially suitable for the development of offshore wind farms. The areas have been identified jointly by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), and the Port Authority of Japan. Four areas lie offshore Akita prefecture: Noshiro (Mitane and […]

  • Novel Floating Wind Measurement Device Launched

    14 September 2015
    Technology

    After confirmation of successful tests of the floating wind measurement device in July 2015, seaLIDAR was introduced to the offshore wind energy market today.  UK-based seaLIDAR Ltd, developed by ESTIA Consulting & Engineering S.A., combines measurement technologies with the potential to perform fully compliant IEC 61400 offshore wind measurements regardless of sea depth or availability of […]

  • EDF Enters Chinese Wind Energy Market

    14 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    EDF Energies Nouvelles, EDF Group’s subsidiary dedicated to renewable energy, has acquired a majority stake in UPC Asia Wind Management (AWM), which develops and builds wind energy projects in China. Following this acquisition, EDF Energies Nouvelles owns an 80% stake in the UPC AWM, based in Hong Kong. Its partners, UPC China and the US-based […]

  • Bipartisan Offshore Wind Act Introduced in USA

    13 July 2015
    Authorities

    U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) have introduced the Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act, which would provide critical financial incentives to encourage investment in offshore wind energy. The legislation would create an investment tax credit that is redeemable for the first 3,000 megawatts of offshore wind facilities placed into service, amounting to […]

  • A Huge Boost for Capturing Wind Energy in Virginia

    15 February 2011

    The potential for capturing wind energy off the coast of Virginia received a huge boost last week with an announcement from the federal… (newsadvance) [mappress] Source: newsadvance , February 15, 2011