The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has finalised the environmental review of the possible impacts of issuing leases for potential offshore wind development off the coast of Oregon. BOEM expects to hold the lease sale, the first-ever of this kind in Oregon, later this year. On 13 August,
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has allowed Vineyard Wind to resume certain limited additional activities at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm site. These include the installation of towers and nacelles but not (yet) the installation of the wind turbine blades. BSEE
Equinor and Virginia Electric and Power Co, a subsidiary of Dominion Energy, have provisionally won lease areas in the Central Atlantic offshore wind auction in the US, each securing one site. The auction, which yielded almost USD 93 million (around EUR 84 million), saw a total of six companies part
The Crown Estate has invited proposals from the pre-qualified bidders in the Round 5 seabed leasing process which will award up to 4.5 GW of floating wind capacity in the Celtic Sea. On 13 August, The Crown Estate said the second phase of the leasing process got underway on 8 August, following the c
The European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER) is preparing detailed recommendations on the integration of non-price criteria in offshore renewable energy tenders. The recommendations, expected to be published in March 2025, will also cover multi-source offshore energy parks
RWE and Luxcara have been selected as winners of the latest German tender, offering a total of 5.5 GW of capacity across three sites, N-9.1, N-9.2, and N-9.3, all located in the German North Sea. RWE has secured the sites N-9.1 and N-9.2, where the company plans to build two offshore wind farms with
South Korea will launch the first in a series of offshore wind tenders this October and (at least) two more until the first half of 2026, according to an Offshore Wind Power Competitive Bidding Roadmap the country’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) unveiled on 8 August. The tenders fro
Renexia, Mingyang Smart Energy and Minister Adolfo Urso from the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will see the Chinese OEM producing wind turbines in Italy and supplying 18.8 MW wind turbines for Renexia’s Med Wind floating wind f
A new report published in Scotland has put forward several recommendations for a nature-inclusive design framework for offshore wind projects. The report was commissioned by Crown Estate Scotland and prepared by the global consultancy company Xodus and the Dutch nature enhancement initiative The Ric
The UK Planning Inspectorate has completed the examination of RWE’s application for a development consent order (DCO) for Rampion 2, the proposed 1.2 GW extension to the existing 400 MW Rampion offshore wind farm in Sussex. The Examining Authority (ExA) at the Inspectorate now has three months to ma
The US states that launched the country’s first multi-state offshore wind solicitation last year have pushed back their bid selection deadline(s) by one month. The move comes after the US Department of Energy (DOE) granted funding to New England states for investment into regional electric infrastru
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has released the list of the projects awarded capacity in the latest offshore wind tender round. Five projects have been selected, totalling 2.7 GW in generation capacity. The projects are the 700 MW Youde (Shinfox), the 800 MW Formosa 6 (Synera Renewable
Azerbaijan will soon start wind measurement campaigns to assess offshore wind resources at two locations, according to a recent update from the Azerbaijan Renewable Energy Agency (AREA), part of the country’s Ministry of Energy. In a press release on 2 August, AREA said that work on starting measure
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has awarded Fugro and Ocean Infinity AB contracts to carry out geotechnical investigations at the Doordewind zone, one of the three new areas designated by the Dutch Government in 2022 to increase offshore wind capacity. RVO launched the tender for offshore ge
