The five port infrastructure projects that the French government recently announced were selected to receive a combined EUR 258.5 million in funding will prepare the country’s ports for the construction of floating wind farms, for which France has set a 2040 target of nearly 6 GW. The funding, award
Azerbaijan’s Cabinet of Ministers has formally designated a 711.4-square-kilometre water area in the country’s sector of the Caspian Sea for offshore wind development. The designation was made through Cabinet Decision No. 251, signed by Prime Minister Ali Asadov on 31 July 2026. The decision identif
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has started operating its 16 MW Haiyou Anlan floating wind platform in the South China Sea, with the unit now supplying electricity to the Lufeng oilfield grid, according to Chinese media. CNOOC had previously reported that Haiyou Anlan was under devel
RWE and the US Department of the Interior (DOI) have reached a settlement agreement under which RWE will relinquish its offshore wind leases in the New York Bight and off the coasts of California and Louisiana in exchange for USD 1.22 billion (around EUR 1.06 billion) in settlement funds. The agreem
The Welsh government has granted Section 36 consent to the Llŷr Wind Farm, a floating wind test and demonstration project being developed by Cierco Energy in the Celtic Sea off Pembrokeshire. Llŷr was one of two projects selected in the Crown Estate’s 2021 leasing opportunity for early commercial-sc
Spain-based floating LiDAR specialist EOLOS has partnered with Vietnamese marine services company Enviros to provide wind resource and metocean measurement services for offshore wind projects in Vietnam, with the first deployments planned from September 2026. Under the agreement, EOLOS will combine
Aberdeen-based floating wind and subsea engineering company Encomara has begun preparations to trial its first Squid connection system for floating wind turbines at the Ardersier Energy Transition Facility in Scotland. The 40-tonne system, which has been under development for more than five years, i
Vattenfall has launched a tender seeking contractors to provide remotely operated vehicle (ROV) inspections and seabed survey services across its offshore wind portfolio in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK from 2027. According to a contract notice from 4 August, the company is looking to
Offshore wind generated a record 17.7 per cent of the UK’s electricity in 2025, producing an all-time high of 52 TWh, according to the latest Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) published by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). The record generation increased from 17.1 per cen
Cierco Energy has signed an Agreement for Lease with the Crown Estate for its two test and demonstration projects off Wales, named Llŷr 1 and Llŷr 2, which are expected to use two different types of floating wind technology. The Llŷr projects were selected for development in 2021 in the Crown Estate
Decommissioning work has started on the TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind project at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) site off Karmøy, Norway, with the dynamic export cable disconnected and placed in wet storage, clearing the site for the next demonstrator project. The decommissioning ca
