Rasmus Errboe, Ørsted’s current Deputy CEO and Chief Commercial Officer, has been named Group President and CEO and will assume the role held by Mads Nipper for the last four years on 1 February. “The renewable energy market has fundamentally changed since January 2021. The impacts on our business o
Navantia UK has acquired the British shipbuilder Harland & Wolff and its operations across four sites: Belfast in Northern Ireland, Appledore in the South West of England, and Methil and Arnish in Scotland. The British subsidiary of the Spanish shipbuilder and offshore wind foundation manufacturer r
Ireland’s Department of the Environment Climate and Communications (DECC) has contracted BVG Associates to provide technical advisory services to assess the potential to deploy offshore renewable energy including floating wind at scale in Ireland. The contract was signed in August 2024, according to
Wind Catching Demo, a subsidiary of Wind Catching Systems, has received a NOK 1.2 billion (approximately EUR 102 million) grant from Enova, a state enterprise owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, for the deployment of a commercial demonstrator unit of its multi-turbine floatin
Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) has selected Oxan Energy, a French-based offshore wind developer, as the winner of the auction for the Saare 1 area. The company plans to install as many as 60 floating wind turbines, with a combined capacity of 900 MW. The Fre
A joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7 has retrieved floating LiDARs and wave buoy equipment as part of the metocean campaign for the proposed Salamander floating offshore wind farm off the North East of Scotland. The campaign started in October 2023 with the deployment of two
Ireland-based XOCEAN has completed the geophysical survey along the 420-kilometre cable route for the proposed 3.6 GW Ossian floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. The survey, conducted using uncrewed survey vessels (USVs), took place over a span of 13 months, in water depths ranging from the shor
US President Donald Trump has issued an Executive Order pausing offshore wind leasing on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and mandating a review of the federal government’s leasing and permitting practices for wind projects. The Order also stops all relevant agencies from issuing approvals, eith
Chinese state-owned CRRC has installed what the company claims to be the world’s largest floating offshore wind turbine in the Shandong Province. On 11 January, the company installed the 20 MW Qihang floating offshore wind turbine prototype at the Dongying wind power testing and certification innova
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Deployment Office (GDO), in partnership with the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), has introduced an action plan for the development of offshore wind transmission on the US West Coast with recommendations on connecti
NOTE: This article was updated on 15 January at 21:50 CET following information offshoreWIND.biz received, attributing the drafting of the executive order halting offshore wind activities on the US East Coast to Congressman Jefferson Van Drew instead of the US President-elect Donald Trump himself. T
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, in partnership with several offshore wind developers, has created Fit for Offshore Renewables (F4OR) Island programme, a dedicated industry supply chain programme for businesses based across Scotland’s island and coastal communities which opens this week. Th
Malta’s Ministry for Environment, Energy and Regeneration of the Grand Harbour (MEER) has extended the deadline for pre-qualification applications for the country’s first floating wind tender. Initially set to close on 28 March, the application period has now been prolonged until 6 June 2025. The go
South Korean company Hanwha Ocean has obtained DNV’s Approval in Principle (AiP) for the concept design of its floating wind foundation, named WindHive 15-H3, developed for wind turbines with a capacity of 15 MW. The AiP for the concept design (pre-FEED) verifies the stability of the technology and
