All the blades for the Les Eoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating offshore wind farm have been delivered and unloaded at the port of Port-La Nouvelle wind terminal in France. Earlier this week, the FWN Arctic vessel, specially designed for the transport of wind components, delivered t
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has released the scheduled date for the first-ever offshore wind energy lease auction off southern Oregon. The two Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) in Oregon, the Coos Bay WEA and the Brookings WEA, will be auctioned on 15 October 2024 by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Ma
Mingyang Smart Energy has installed what the company claims to be the world’s largest single-capacity offshore wind turbine, the MySE18.X-20 MW, in Hainan, China. In December 2023, Mingyang produced a nacelle for MySE 18.X-20 MW wind turbine at its Shanwei manufacturing base in China. The unit featu
The self-elevating wind turbine installation vessel, Gang Hang Ping 5, capable of installing 26 MW wind turbines, has been delivered to the port city of Qingdao in east China. Gang Hang Ping 5, China’s largest self-elevating wind turbine installation vessel so far, was delivered on 28 August in Qing
The high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore converter platform (OCP) has been installed at the Sofia offshore wind farm site in the UK. The installation was carried out by Heerema Marine Contractors, using its Sleipnir heavy-lift vessel as a subcontractor to the GE Vernova/Seatrium consortium re
Vattenfall has signed a long-term electricity supply contract with the steel producer Salzgitter for 75 MW of electricity to come from the Nordlicht 1 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. With this power purchase agreement (PPA), Salzgitter secures the supply of green electricity for 15 years
Norway’s Equinor has decided to discontinue its offshore wind projects in Spain and Portugal, following the company’s earlier decision to exit Vietnam. Equinor may also scale back operations in other countries as well in an effort to cut costs, an executive told Reuters. The announcement follows clo
France’s TotalEnergies plans to launch a floating offshore wind pilot project to supply renewable energy to the Culzean offshore platform in the UK North Sea. The 3 MW floating wind turbine will be located two kilometres west of the Culzean platform, 220 kilometres off the eastern coast of Scotland.
The Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission released a new plan on 26 August that will lead to China’s largest city opening an allocation round by the end of this year for at least 1 GW of offshore solar energy capacity that will be co-located with offshore wind. As reported in July, Sh
South Korea’s Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy have approved the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) for Hexicon’s MunmuBaram project and Korea Floating Wind’s floating offshore wind project being developed off the coast of Ulsan. The EIA process, conducted by
Heerema Marine Contractors’ crane vessel, Thialf, has installed all 64 foundations at EnBW’s 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Heerema Marine Contractors, headquartered in the Netherlands, was contracted by EnBW in April 2022 to install monopiles and transition pieces at t
Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy has proposed a new date for the second offshore wind auction to award a 700 MW project in the Baltic Sea, following a pause of the initial process in April due to a lack of qualified bids. At the start of this year, Lithuania’s National Energy Regulatory Council (NERC)
TenneT has invited tenders for the provision of a platform supply vessel (PSV) and crew to conduct supply tours to TenneT’s offshore platforms in the German North Sea. According to a contract notice issued on 21 August, the transmission system operator (TSO) will award a multiple-year charter contra
This article was updated at 10:15 CET on 28 August 2024 after a response from Hai Long Offshore Wind. The CO2 leak that hospitalised 17 people working at the Hai Long onshore substation site in Changhua, Taiwan, on 20 August has claimed at least one life. On 27 August, the Hai Long Offshore Wind con
