The Polish government and key representatives from the offshore wind energy sector have signed a Sector Agreement for the Development of Offshore Wind Energy in Poland, with an aim to support the development of the offshore wind sector in Poland and to maximise the share of local content in Polish p
Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has reached financial close on its 800 MW offshore wind farm in Massachusetts — the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the United States and the Americas region. The developer has raised USD
UK’s Harland & Wolff and Spanish companies Navantia and Windar Renovables have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will see the new partners actively working on securing specific fixed-bottom and floating offshore wind projects, primarily within the UK, and executing them together. Har
Xodus has completed an analysis of the US offshore wind industry to determine potential opportunities for UK companies to enter the offshore wind market across the pond. According to the study, a rapid expansion in products and services is currently required to deliver projects on time and on budget
Floating Energy Allyance (FEA), a consortium comprising BW Ideol, Elicio, and BayWa r.e., has said that its proposals for a floating wind farm, submitted in the ScotWind leasing round, could create 3,900 jobs in Scotland at the peak of manufacturing and construction, if successful in winning the dev
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has inaugurated its facility for the assembly of offshore wind turbine nacelles in Taiwan, the company’s first such facility outside Europe. The official opening of the facility in Taichung, being held today (14 September), follows the completion of the assembly of th
A consortium comprising DEME Concessions, Qair Marine, and Aspiravi International is bidding in Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind seabed leasing process, DEME reported on 13 September. Along with offshore wind development, the consortium, called Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), will also actively explore
High Tien Offshore Engineering (High Tien Offshore) – a company led by a former CSBC president and chairman of CSBC’s joint venture with DEME – is set to invest in a large cable laying vessel (CLV) which will serve the offshore wind market in Taiwan. “Following the investment by CDWE in a large floa
GE Renewable Energy has received the official planning approval from local authorities for its manufacturing plant in Teesside, UK, where LM Wind Power will operate the facility which will be dedicated to the production of its 107-metre-long blades for GE’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbines. The cons
Nexans revealed on 10 September that the company had entered into exclusive negotiations for the supply and installation of both onshore and offshore export cables for an offshore wind project in the UK. The cable manufacturer has not disclosed any specifics about the project and its client, noting
German energy company RWE and Norway’s NTE and Havfram have signed a collaboration agreement to participate in the Norwegian government’s tender process for floating offshore wind energy, which will begin later this year. The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has designated a new area for t
Scotland’s strategy for increasing the share of local content in wind projects off its coasts, as well as for increasing Scottish content in projects in other markets, should be based on manufacturing, rather than installation, according to a report from the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SO
Spanish energy giant Iberdrola has announced three new offshore wind development projects in Taiwan with a combined potential capacity of approximately six gigawatts. The projects are named Da-Chung Bu Offshore Wind (大中部離岸風電), Guo-Feng Offshore Wind (果豐離岸風電) and Ju-Dao Offshore Wind (菊島離岸風電) and wil
Ørsted and Vietnam’s T&T Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to launch a strategic collaboration on offshore wind in Vietnam. The collaboration between Ørsted and T&T is said to bring together a multi-GW pipeline of greenfield offshore wind projects located off the coasts of the Bi
