Germany Accepts First Subsidy-Free Offshore Wind Auction Bid Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur has selected three offshore wind projects by DONG Energy and one project by EnBW in the first auction for grid connections and funding for existing offshore wind farm projects, with at least one of the developer
The offshore wind giant DONG Energy will open its U.S. headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, at the end April.
The board of directors of Belgium’s transmission system operator Elia has approved the EUR 400 million investment into the so-called electricity plug, or Modular Offshore Grid (MOG) in the North Sea.
DONG Energy has revealed the factors behind the decision to place two zero subsidy bids in the first round of offshore wind auctions in Germany. As reported earlier, the Bundesnetzagentur awarded DONG the right to build three offshore wind projects in the German North Sea with a combined capacity of
In the first of two German auction rounds, the Bundesnetzagentur awarded DONG Energy the right to build three offshore wind projects in the German North Sea totaling 590MW capacity, with two of the projects accepted with bids for zero Euros per MWh.
Oil and gas major Royal Dutch Shell has called on the government in the Netherlands to increase its target for installed offshore wind capacity by 2030 to 20 gigawatts, Reuters reports.
Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur has selected three offshore wind projects by DONG Energy and one project by EnBW in the first auction for grid connections and funding for existing offshore wind farm projects, with one of the operators offering the lowest price bid of 0.00 Euro cents per kilowatt-hour.
Peterson Chemicals has secured a second logistics contract with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy.
The Port of Taichung has been identified as the optimal port to support offshore wind farm construction works in Taiwan, according to a review carried out by the Executive Yuan and the country’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) in coordination with relevant industry representatives.
The first quarter of this year saw a 60% year-on-year decrease in offshore wind financings, from USD 11.5 billion in Q1 2016 to USD 4.6 billion in Q1 2017, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) report on global clean energy investment.
Danish transmission system operator Energinet.dk has invited tenders for client representative services both onshore and offshore.
Aqualis Offshore has opened an office in Taiwan to support local offshore wind and oil and gas markets, as well as the development of its sister company Offshore Wind Consultants’ offshore wind energy projects in Taiwan.
Ampyx Power, the airborne wind energy technology developer which entered a collaboration with E.ON on 11 April, started building an AP3 aircraft prototype at the end of March and launched a crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising investments of EUR 2.5 million to finance activities towards commercial
Independent geoscience and engineering service provider, Next Geosolutions, has acquired the UK-based marine resource solutions company, RMS Submarine Ltd.
