The Governor of Maine’s Energy Office has released the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap, a stakeholder-driven comprehensive plan that is said to offer detailed strategies for Maine to realize economic, energy, and climate benefits from offshore wind, in conjunction with communities, fisheries, and wildli
Entrion Wind has been awarded a project to evaluate the feasibility of its patent-pending fully restrained platform (FRP) offshore wind foundation technology by a ScotWind developer. Under the agreement, Entrion will assess the technical and economic feasibility of the FRP foundation technology, ext
Stars have aligned today, 24 February, for the first wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) being built in the US as Huisman loaded the vessel’s crane onboard BigLift Shipping’s Happy Star and sent it off to the Lone Star State. In Texas, Huisman’s US team will commission the crane at the Keppel Am
Canada-headquartered Northland Power has secured two Electricity Business Licenses (EBLs) for its 1,000 MW Dado and 600 MW Bobae offshore wind projects in South Korea. The Dado offshore wind project was awarded EBL for 900 MW of the 1,000 MW capacity, providing exclusivity on the leases for the proj
First steps have been made towards building the first subsea power cable factory in Taiwan to support its growing offshore wind sector as the cable manufacturer NKT and Taiwan’s conglomerate Walsin Lihwa announced they were establishing a joint venture. The factory, which will specialise in the prod
Saipem and Seaway7 have entered into a commercial collaboration agreement to jointly identify, bid and execute fixed offshore wind projects. Saipem and Seaway7 will pursue selected projects where the combined utilisation of the companies’ complementary assets, technologies, products, and competencie
On 8 February, Vestas and its CETEC partners made headlines as they completed a project that brought a novel chemical disassembly process for wind turbine blades a step away from commercialisation. It is time we look more closely at what exactly in the two-step process is new, where else it can be a
Ireland’s ESB and Iarnród Éireann (Port Authority for Rosslare Europort) have signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on the organisations’ respective development plans to support offshore wind projects in the Celtic and Irish Seas. With ESB developing a portfolio of offshore wind fa
Siemens Gamesa completed the installation of its prototype SG 14-236 DD offshore wind turbine on 22 February. The wind turbine, which can reach a capacity of up to 15 MW with the company’s Power Boost feature, will now be put through paces at the Danish national test centre for large wind turbines i
Heerema Marine Contractors has installed the offshore substation topside for Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The substation topside, which was completed last month, was installed by Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Thialf. The jacket foundation
Pan-European renewable energy developer Galileo and Hope Group have formed a joint venture (JV) to develop a 1,100 MW floating offshore wind project in Italy’s Adriatic Sea. The Barium Bay floating wind farm, which is the name of the project and the JV, will be located over 40 kilometres from shore
Fugro has reported a revenue of EUR 1.76 billion for the whole year of 2022, representing a 14.8 per cent growth in comparison to 2021, said to be due to a 42 per cent increase in offshore wind. Infrastructure and oil & gas were also up, with 7 per cent and 9 per cent respectively. […]
SSE has awarded UK-based Stowen a framework agreement to provide inspection services to the Beatrice and Greater Gabbard offshore wind farms in the UK. Following a successful tender process, Stowen was awarded the frameworks requiring inspection services to cover offshore foundations for the 588 MW
Australia has opened a consultation on a new offshore wind zone in the Pacific Ocean off the Hunter, New South Wales. The development area is situated within the recently declared Hunter-Central Coast Renewable Energy Zone (REZ). The Hunter-Central Coast REZ has reportedly attracted a significant re
