A consortium between TotalEnergies and RWE has won the Centre Manche 2 tender to develop a 1.5 GW offshore wind farm off the coast of Normandy, making it the largest renewable energy initiative in France to date. As part of a strategic review of its investment, RWE has expressed the wish to exit the
TenneT Holding has reached an agreement with APG (acting on behalf of pension fund ABP), Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC to invest a total of EUR 9.5 billion in the German transmission system operator (TSO). The three institutional investors are
Plans to develop a 1 GW offshore wind farm off Île d’Oléron have hit a setback, as the tender process closed without receiving any bids. According to the French government, the AO7 tender was not the subject of any offer at the end of the application period. The tender was launched in October 2022.
Ichnusa Wind Power, an Italian developer of floating offshore wind projects, has received the green light to explore a potential site off Sardinia’s coast. A decree issued by the Coast Guard permits Ichnusa Wind Power to undertake scientific and technical surveys off the coast of Portoscuso. The wor
Japan’s Floating Offshore Wind Technology Research Association (FLOWRA) and Holland Home of Wind Energy (HHWE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore technology development cooperation in the field of floating offshore wind. Under the MoU signed on 22 September, FLOWRA and HHWE w
EnBW has selected HTM Helicopter Travel Munich and HeliService to provide helicopter transport services for the company’s offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. HTM Helicopter Travel Munich and HeliService were selected to provide aerial and related services for EnBW’s Hohe See, Albatros, and
Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has entered into an eight-year framework agreement with the German transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz to provide geotechnical seabed survey services for offshore substation development. Under the agreement, valued at multiple million euros annually over eight year
Iberdrola has launched floating LiDAR and metocean measuring equipment at its Aurora Green offshore wind project site, located within the Gippsland offshore wind area in Australia. The equipment will collect data on wind, waves, currents, and other atmospheric and oceanographic parameters for 12-24
A US judge in Washington has cleared the way for work to resume on the 704 MW Revolution Wind offshore wind farm after granting a temporary injunction that lifted the federal stop-work order imposed in August. On 22 August, the US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
More than two years after a fire caused damage, a wind turbine at the Scroby Sands offshore wind farm in the UK is being removed by RWE. In August 2023, turbine T06 at the 58 MW Scroby Sands offshore wind farm caught fire in the nacelle, with the fire extinguishing on its own. Work to […]
Glamox has secured contracts to provide connected marine lighting and light management systems for eleven offshore High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) converter platforms, being built for the Dutch/German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT. The contracts represent Glamox’s largest marine light
The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator (CNSOER) has received a joint strategic direction from the governments of Canada and Nova Scotia to formally initiate the process to issue a call for bids for offshore wind within the Canada-Nova Scotia offshore area. Following the recent designation
All three floating wind turbines for the 30 MW EolMed project have been deployed from Port-La Nouvelle, France, marking the beginning of the final phase before commissioning, which is scheduled for later this year. After nearly three years of work on the industrial quay of Port-La Nouvelle, the EolM
The first offshore wind tower section has been produced at the new Baltic Towers facility in Gdańsk, Poland. The event was attended by Minister of Climate and Environment Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Pomeranian Voivode Beata Rutkiewicz, Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Mieczysław Struk, Mayor of the
