Just days after acquiring its first offshore wind site in Estonia, Norway’s Deep Wind Offshore has secured another area in the Estonian part of the Baltic Sea with a winning bid starting at approximately EUR 1.33 million. Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) annou
Delaware’s State Senate has passed a bill that enables the US state to issue an offshore wind solicitation to procure 1.2 GW of offshore wind generation capacity and in participate in regional offshore wind transmission planning. The Senate adopted the Delaware Energy Solutions Act of 2024 (Senate B
The US Department of Interior (DOI) will hold an offshore wind lease sale in the Central Atlantic in August this year, with the two areas auctioned by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) potentially generating up to 6.3 GW of renewable energy. BOEM will hold the auction on 14 August, featur
Japan’s GF Corporation has joined as a strategic partner in IX Renewables’ Rui-li Phase 1 floating offshore wind project in Taiwan. The Rui-Li 1 project, located off the coast of Hsinchu County, is planned to feature twelve 15 MW wind turbines. The project is set to participate in the upcoming float
NOTE: Updated on 12 July with information on the expected timeframe within which the developers could submit a DCO application. SSE and Equinor, co-owners/developers of the Dogger Bank D offshore wind project, have submitted a Scoping Report for the 2 GW project to the UK’s Planning Inspectorate. Th
Denmark’s Port of Roenne has been selected as the installation port for the Baltic Power offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea. Baltic Power will be one of the first European offshore wind projects to use Vestas’ new 15 MW wind turbine which until now has only been installed as a prototype
Sif Group is planning to commence the production of monopile foundations for the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project next month at its Maasvlakte site in the Netherlands. The first steel plates for the 810 Empire Wind 1 wind farm have been delivered at Sif’s Maasvlakte site, and the first transition
DEME’s installation vessel Apollo is now at the site of the French offshore wind farm Dieppe Le Tréport, ready to start installing pin piles for the project’s 62 jacket foundations. According to an update DEME posted on social media on 28 June, Apollo arrived at the offshore wind farm site this week
The Netherlands’ Damen Group has signed a contract with Ta San Shang Marine (TSSM) for the construction of a new service operation vessel (SOV) that will serve offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The SOV will be built at the Damen shipyard in Vietnam and is slated for delivery at the end of 2026. This is
The US-based classification organisation American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Dutch synthetic mooring solutions provider FibreMax have signed an agreement to collaborate on stiffness-driven mooring tendons for the floating offshore wind market. Under the agreement, ABS will provide qualification fo
Edison, the Italian subsidiary of EDF, has acquired a 50 per cent stake in Wind Energy Pozzallo, a special-purpose company that is developing a 975 MW floating offshore wind project in Sicily, Italy. Edison’s investment in Wind Energy Pozzallo was facilitated through a partnership with Blunova, a re
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) of the Wind Energy Area (WEA) in the Gulf of Maine. The WEA spans the federal waters off Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire and includes eight potential leasing areas that could house 15 GW of insta
Navantia Seanergies has manufactured the first monopile foundation for Iberdrola’s UK offshore wind project East Anglia Three at Navantia-Windar’s monopile factory in Fene shipyard, in A Coruña, Spain. The Navantia-Windar consortium will deliver 45 monopiles for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore
Survey operations are underway at an offshore wind farm site near Japan after Fugro signed a contract with the project developer, a consortium comprising RWE, Mitsui, and Osaka Gas. The fieldwork started in May 2024 and is being performed from Fugro’s self-elevating platform (SEP), the Amberjack, an
