The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has awarded contracts to the companies Fugro and Enviros to map the shallowest strata under the seabed with the objective of locating sites that are best suited for the placement of wind turbines. Fugro has been awarded the contract for the Sørlige Nordsjø I
The Consumer Protection and Technical Supervision Agency (CPTRA) has approved the environmental impact assessment (EIA) programme of the Saare-Liivi offshore wind farm in Estonia. Usually, the environmental studies begin after the programme is approved, but in this case, the surveys started already
Suomen Hyötytuuli’s offshore wind farm extension project at Tahkoluoto, Pori on the west coast of Finland is proceeding to the permitting phase after the project’s land use plan was approved. The project could have a capacity of over 600 MW and is an extension to Finland’s first offshore wind farm,
Equinor and RWE have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on developing large scale projects that will contribute to the European energy supply and to the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy in Germany, Norway and the EU. Among the key areas the two partners agreed upon is also joint development o
One of the eleven offshore wind areas the Polish government put up for auction last year has reached the decision point with no winners chosen as the Ministry of Infrastructure concluded none of the applications met the qualifying minimum in terms of project implementation timeline. On 2 January, th
The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) wrapped up 2022 by issuing several new orders, among them also an order approving the power purchase agreements (PPAs) for Mayflower Wind and Commonwealth Wind projects, although Avangrid filed a motion to dismiss the proceedings for the latter
Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has granted Ilmatar Offshore a research permit for two offshore wind areas in Finland’s exclusive economic zone. The granted permit applies to two areas, one of which is located approximately 30 kilometers from Jakobstad and the other approximate
A patch of the Tyrrhenian Sea near Civitavecchia, a city in the Rome metropolitan area, has become a point of interest for several developers who submitted eight concession applications for floating offshore wind projects to the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, currently
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Ofgem has approved the strategic electricity transmission reinforcements required to deliver the UK Government’s 50 GW offshore wind by 2030 target, set out as part of the regulator’s Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) framework. The decision confirms that all SSEN Transmission pro
This year is set to be one of the busiest for offshore wind developers and governments around the world as a multitude of new sites are scheduled to be awarded for offshore wind farm construction. From the much longer list of auctions coming up in 2023, each bearing national and/or global significan
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Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has narrowed down the list of offshore wind projects selected in the latest allocation round and has now awarded capacity to seven out of the initially chosen ten future offshore wind farms. On 14 December, MOEA announced that ten projects were selected i
The Finnish Government has given consent regarding research permits to the Swedish developer Eolus Vind for Wellamo and Tuulia offshore wind projects in the Bothnian Sea. The construction of offshore wind farms requires an environmental impact assessment (EIA), during which Eolus investigates the di
