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  • German Offshore Wind Industry Organisation Calls for Return of 2023-2025 Sites for Projects Yet to Reach FID

    21 May 2026
    Industry, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The German Offshore Wind Energy Association (BWO) has proposed that the government introduce a legally regulated mechanism allowing developers to voluntarily return offshore wind sites that are unlikely to be realised, which would enable a rapid re-tendering of the sites. According to the association, this would prevent long-term blockage of offshore wind areas and grid […]

  • Van Oord’s First Sea-Going USV Completes Multi-Day Operation at Dutch Offshore Wind Farm

    4 May 2026
    Business development, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Van Oord’s first uncrewed survey vessel (USV) specialised for operations at sea has completed its first multi-day offshore operation at a wind farm in the Netherlands. VO:X Barentsz was deployed at Ecowende’s Hollandse Kust West offshore wind farm, where it supported monopile and cable installation works carried out by installation vessels Boreas, Nexus and Subsea […]

  • Qair Files for Offshore Consent for Ayre Floating Wind Farm

    12 December 2025
    Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Ayre Offshore Wind Farm Limited, the project company behind the 1 GW Ayre floating wind farm proposed to be built in Scotland, has applied for offshore consent with Marine Scotland. According to documentation available on Marine Scotland’s website, the developer submitted the offshore application on 27 November. As announced at the beginning of last month, […]

  • Brave Tern Detained After Collision with Another WTIV in Port; Several Thor Wind Turbine Blades Damaged

    11 June 2026
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Updated on 12 June 2026 with reader’s photo. The Danish Maritime Authority has detained the wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Brave Tern following a collision in the Port of Esbjerg that damaged turbine components for the Thor offshore wind farm. According to the Danish newspaper JydskeVestkysten, the Danish Maritime Authority said the incident occurred during […]

  • Cyan Renewables, Blue Water Shipping, LX International to Develop Offshore Wind Marshalling Port in South Korea

    24 February 2026
    Collaboration, Ports & Logistics

    Singapore-based offshore wind vessel owner Cyan Renewables, Danish company Blue Water Shipping, and LX International, a global trading company with headquarters in South Korea, have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the development of an offshore wind port facility in South Korea. According to the partners, the port facility will be […]

  • Crown Estate Launches New Funding Round, GBP 15 Million Available for Offshore Wind Supply Chain

    12 May 2026
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Innovation, Ports & Logistics, Supply Chain

    The Crown Estate has launched the third funding round of its Supply Chain Accelerator programme, making GBP 15 million (approximately EUR 17 million) available to support early-stage offshore wind supply chain projects across the UK. Under the new round, businesses can apply for match funding covering up to 50 per cent of eligible early-stage development […]

  • Dutch Gas Platform Now Powered by German Offshore Wind Farm

    12 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Transition

    The Netherlands-based exploration and production player ONE-Dyas, together with its partners EBN and Tenaz Energy, has tucked a new decarbonisation milestone under its belt by breathing life into the first natural gas production platform in the Dutch and German sectors of the North Sea to run on offshore wind energy. The cable connection between ONE-Dyas’ […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Ships First 115-Metre Blades Produced in Le Havre to Thor Offshore Wind Farm

    19 May 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Siemens Gamesa has dispatched the first B115 blades manufactured at its expanded Le Havre facility in France to RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark. The 1 GW Thor offshore wind, located off the west coast of Jutland, will feature 72 SG 14-236 DD wind turbines. According to Siemens Gamesa, 63 115-metre blades will be […]

  • Poland Awards 3.4+ GW of Offshore Wind Capacity to Three Developers, PGE Moves to Acquire RWE’s Project

    19 December 2025
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), Orlen Group, and a consortium of Equinor and Polenergia have secured more than 3.4 GW of capacity in Poland’s first-ever offshore wind auction held on 17 December. The projects the Polish government awarded Contracts for Difference (CfDs) are Baltica 9 (PGE), Baltic East (Orlen Group), and Bałtyk 1 (Equinor and […]

  • Crown Estate to Re-Tender 1.5 GW Offshore Wind Site Relinquished by EnBW and JERA Nex BP

    8 June 2026
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Crown Estate will launch a competitive tender process next month to bring the 1.5 GW Morgan offshore wind project in the Irish Sea back to market, with plans to appoint a new developer by late 2026. The Morgan site was originally awarded through Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 in 2021, but development was discontinued […]

  • Floating Wind Tech Developer Zooms In on AI | Aikido Unveils Data Centre Concept, Selected for NVIDIA Programme

    12 March 2026
    Business development, Floating Wind, Foundations, Innovation, Supply Chain, Technology

    US-based floating wind foundation developer Aikido Technologies has announced two developments linking its floating wind platform with artificial intelligence (AI), including the launch of an AI-focused offshore data centre platform and its selection for an AI startup programme run by NVIDIA. The company recently unveiled AO60DC, a floating offshore wind platform designed to co-locate renewable […]

  • French Gov’t Tweaks 2035 Offshore Wind Target, Adds Two More Years to Reach 18 GW

    13 February 2026
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Industry, Planning & Permitting

    The French government will publish its third Multiannual Energy Programme (PPE3) on 13 February and establish the country’s energy strategy for the period 2026-2035, which includes a 3 GW lower target for offshore wind by the end of that period than initially planned. PPE3 includes an adjustment to the timeline for the previous 2035 target […]

  • 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 […]

  • UK Gov’t Tweaking CfD Rules Ahead of 8th Allocation Round, Proposes ‘Other Deepwater Offshore Wind’ Category

    18 December 2025
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The UK government has launched a consultation on proposed refinements to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme ahead of Allocation Round 8 (AR8) and future rounds, including targeted changes to the terms concerning offshore wind and floating wind projects. The consultation, published by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, seeks industry feedback on […]

  • 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 […]

  • RWE Secures Almost 7 GW as UK Awards 8.4 GW in ‘Europe’s Biggest Ever Offshore Wind Auction’

    14 January 2026
    Authorities, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The UK government has awarded a record 8.4 GW of offshore wind capacity in the Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 7 (AR7), including two floating wind projects. The biggest winner of the UK’s latest CfD round is RWE, which secured contracts for almost 7 GW of offshore wind projects. RWE has been awarded CfDs at a strike price […]

  • Vestas Ends 2025 with All-Time High Revenue and EUR 10.1 Billion Offshore Wind Turbine Order Backlog

    5 February 2026
    Business & Finance, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    Vestas’s offshore wind turbine order backlog was worth EUR 10.1 billion as at 31 December 2025, according to the company’s annual report, which shows that for both onshore and offshore, the turbine order backlog amounted to 31,026 MW and a value of EUR 33.2 billion at the end of the year, EUR 1.6 billion more […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • New EU-Backed Project Aims to Establish Offshore Test Sites for Floating Wind Turbines of Up to 25 MW

    17 February 2026
    Business development, Floating Wind, Foundations, Innovation, Research & Development, Wind Turbines

    A new European project focused on offshore testing infrastructure for high-power floating wind turbines was officially launched at a kick-off meeting in Nantes, France, this month. The project is co-financed by the Interreg Atlantic Area programme through the European Regional Development Fund. Named HiPoTeSis (High Power Test Sites to consolidate industrialisation of Floating Offshore Wind […]

  • Haesong Offshore Wind Signs Supply Chain Agreements with LS Cable, LS Marine Solution, KEPCO E&C

    25 May 2026
    Business & Finance, Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Haesong Offshore Wind has signed preferred supplier agreements (PSAs) with LS Cable & System and LS Marine Solution, alongside a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) with LS Cable & System and KEPCO Engineering and Construction (KEPCO E&C), for its Haesong Offshore Wind 1 and 3 projects in South Korea. According to the company, the agreements […]

  • Hamburg Declaration: North Sea Countries Target 100 GW of Cross-Border Offshore Wind, Boost to Offshore Hydrogen

    26 January 2026
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Green Hydrogen, Grid Connection, Planning & Permitting, Power-to-X

    Energy ministers from nine North Sea countries signed the ‘Hamburg Declaration’ at the North Sea Summit in Hamburg on 26 January, agreeing to work towards up to 100 GW of cross-border offshore wind capacity in the North Seas by 2050, while also advancing offshore renewable hydrogen as part of a more integrated regional energy system. […]

  • Jan De Nul, Hellenic Cables Link Nordseecluster A Offshore Wind Site to DolWin Kappa Platform

    15 December 2025
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul has installed three HVAC subsea cables, delivered by Hellenic Cables, between TenneT’s offshore converter station DolWin kappa and Nordseecluster 1 and 2 sites in the German North Sea. The two locations make up the 660 MW Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm, which itself is part of a bigger, two-phased Nordseecluster project. With […]

  • Norway’s Two Floating Wind Tender Applicants to Be Awarded Project Sites

    12 December 2025
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Harald Hårfagre, a joint venture between Deep Wind Offshore and EDF Renewables, and a consortium of Equinor and Vårgrønn, which were the only developers to submit applications in Norway’s first floating wind tender, will each be awarded a project area, the Norwegian Ministry of Energy said on 11 December. In September, the Ministry announced that it […]

  • US Gov’t Drafting Agreements to Pay French Developer Nearly USD 1 Billion to Cancel Offshore Wind Leases – Reports

    17 March 2026
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US government is working on settlement agreements that involve the government cancelling TotalEnergies’ Attentive Energy and Carolina Long Bay offshore wind leases and reimbursing the French energy company USD 928 million (around EUR 806 million) for the financial bids through which it secured the two areas in lease sales during the previous administration, the […]

  • US Federal Court Clears Revolution Wind to Resume Construction as Ørsted, Skyborn’s Lawsuit Against Stop-Work Orders Progresses

    13 January 2026
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted the preliminary injunction sought by the joint venture between Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables for the Revolution Wind project, which was ordered to pause construction by the US government. When the stop-work order was issued on 22 December 2025, the 704 MW project had seven […]