Ørsted has filed a complaint against Cape May County with the Superior Court of New Jersey as the developer has not yet received a permit required for investigation works at a section of a county road. The company says this is creating “a cascading and adverse effect” on the recently approved 1.1 GW
Toshiba and GE plan to start producing nacelles for GE’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbines in Japan in 2026 and to start gathering local suppliers with capabilities to deliver nacelle components before that, Nikkei reports. The Japanese and the US company signed a strategic partnership agreement in 2
Mingyang Smart Energy’s MySE 16-260 offshore wind turbine has been commissioned and is operating at full capacity in China, according to the company, which now overtook Goldwind in having the biggest wind turbine in the world installed as Mingyang’s compatriot’s 16 MW model has a rotor diameter of 2
The 500 MW Fécamp offshore wind farm in Normandy, France, has started producing the first electricity and feeding it into the grid after the first wind turbine was installed at the beginning of this month. Following the load-out of the first four wind turbines from the port of Cherbourg, DEME Offsho
USV AS, a joint venture (JV) company established by DeepOcean, Solstad Offshore and Østensjø, has contracted Astilleros Gondán shipyard to build its first unmanned surface vessel (USV). Expected to enter service in 2025, the USV will be utilised for subsea inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) w
Ireland-headquartered Simply Blue Group, offshore services provider Subsea7, and Australia’s Spark Renewables have unveiled their plan to develop the Sea Fern floating offshore wind project in the Commonwealth’s newly declared Hunter wind zone in the Pacific Ocean. A few days ago, the Australian Gov
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is expected to soon announce its decision on whether to approve the Revolution Wind offshore wind farm as the federal agency has now completed the environmental analysis of the project, which Ørsted and Eversource plan to build offshore Rhode Island. B
The first in a series of specialist survey vessels have set sail from Swansea, marking an important step in the plans for the development of floating wind off the coast of Wales and South West England. Operated by Fugro with a crew of 30, the vessel will spend around 100 days at sea, using towed [&h
ESVAGT has chosen Norway-headquartered HAV Design to develop another methanol-fuelled service operation vessel (SOV) that will become an integral part of Ørsted’s UK East Coast Hub. HAV Design will deliver both the ship design and an integrated equipment package including the propulsion system, engi
All 62 three-legged jacket foundations have been installed at the 589 MW Changfang and Xidao wind farms offshore Taiwan, according to Dennis Sanou, CEO of Changfang Xidao Offshore Wind Farms at Copenhagen Offshore Partners. Century Wind Power was responsible for manufacturing the jacket foundations,
Fugro’s survey vessel Fugro Brasilis has arrived at the Port of Willemstad in Curaçao ahead of offshore surveys the company will perform as the Curaçao government is working on identifying areas for floating wind development. The work, scheduled to start today (17 July) and take place until 29 July,
NOTE: The original article “Irish Government Designates 700 MW Area for Next Offshore Wind Auction, Work on Tender Design Underway”, published on the 14th of July, has been updated following information from the Irish Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) that the grid cap
The Crown Estate and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) have released a report which aims to help stakeholders involved in offshore wind developments better assess the impacts of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from subsea power cables on the marine environment. Acc
An inter-ministerial working group on offshore wind set up by the Portuguese government as part of the process of organising the country’s first offshore wind tender has narrowed down the initially identified areas to three that would be offered for development later this year. As reported at the be
