German energy company RWE is participating in the Dutch offshore wind tender for the Hollandse Kust West (HKW) sites VI and VII. The areas are located in the North Sea, about 53 kilometres off the Dutch coast. The sites will each deliver more than 760 MW of offshore wind capacity. In addition, RWE’s
Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) has tasked the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) with conducting surveys in connection with awarding acreage for offshore wind. The NPD will plan and implement a tendering process for preliminary surveys in the areas of Sørlige Nordsjø II and Utsir
TotalEnergies and Duke Energy are the provisional winners of the Carolina Long Bay offshore wind lease sale in the US, with their competitive winning bids totaling USD 315 million. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) offered two lease sites (OCS-A 0545 and OCS-A 0546) in the Wilmington East
The Government of Norway has launched a large-scale investment plan aimed at allocating sea areas to develop 30 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2040. The ambition is that almost as much new power will be produced from offshore wind as Norway produces in total today. ”Today we launch a large-scale in
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will open the lease sale for two offshore wind areas in Carolina Long Bay in about one hour, as of when up to 16 prequalified bidders will compete for lease rights for the blocks OCS-A 0545 and OCS-A 0546. The area being auctioned today is the Wilmingt
The California Energy Commission (CEC) has set a preliminary planning goal of 3 GW of (floating) offshore wind to be installed off the state’s coast by 2030, with an aim to have up to 15 GW installed by 2045 and potentially 20 GW five years later. Under a bill that was enacted in September 2021, [&h
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has prequalified 16 companies for tomorrow’s (11 May) Carolina Long Bay lease sale. Among the names on the list of eligible bidders are once again European oil majors and offshore wind developers, who are now joined by the Japanese developer JERA and t
Energy ministers from Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, as well as the European Commissioner for Energy, will meet at the North Sea Summit in Esbjerg on 18 May to discuss how to accelerate the buildout of renewable energy in the North Sea. During the summit, the ministers will present concrete
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review of potential impacts from offshore wind energy leasing activities in the Humboldt Wind Energy Area (WEA) offshore California. Based on its analysis, BOEM has issued a finding of no significant impact (FONSI). “The
As the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is working towards the first offshore wind auction for the Gulf of Mexico early next year, current legislative developments in Louisiana could lead to the state being the first to build an offshore wind farm in the Gulf, as well as to expanding the
Colombia’s President Iván Duque and Minister of Mining and Energy, Diego Mesa, launched the country’s Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap on 3 May at an event in the city of Barranquilla, whose waters will become the home of the first offshore wind farm in Colombia. The objective of the roadmap is to build
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) plans to hold the next Gulf of Maine Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting on 19 May as part of the agency’s work on refining the process for identifying a Wind Energy Area in the Gulf of Maine that is suitable for leasing. The meeting
The Provisions Judge of the District Court of Midden Nederland, The Netherlands, has ruled that Mammoet’s Intelectual Property (IP) infringement claim against Huisman related to Huisman’s contract to provide a 3,000mt ringer crane contract to BMS is unsubstantiated and therefore unlawful. The judge
The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), The Crown Estate, and Crown Estate Scotland have released a study that on the future of offshore wind in the UK, which shows the scale of potential for future deployment and helps understand and address how to best manage the var
