Wind farm owners/operators in Germany are retrofitting wind turbines to equip them with a lighting system that will switch on only after an aircraft is detected in a wind farm’s proximity, as new law on light pollution and aeronautical obstruction lighting systems will go into effect next year. As r
A US federal judge in Boston has barred General Electric (GE) from ‘‘making, using, offering for sale, selling, importing (into), or installing in the United States” the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine after the jury found in June that the wind turbine infringed upon a patent held by Siemens Gamesa
The following article is a guest post by Wayne Mulhall, Managing Director at James Fisher Renewables. The global offshore wind market is at an inflection point. On the one hand, megaprojects around the world are transitioning from a subsidy to a merchant development and finance model. On the other h
6,759 MW of offshore wind capacity went into operation during the first six months of 2022 compared to 1,627 MW during the same period a year earlier, World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO) said in its Global Offshore Wind Report HY1 2022. This growth was mainly driven by China which installed 5.1 GW of ne
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) Poland has signed the Polish Offshore Wind Sector Deal, an agreement between the Polish Government and key representatives from the offshore wind energy sector that aims to support the development of the country’s offshore wind sector and to maximise the share of lo
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has made available a Request for Interest (RFI) and Request for Competitive Interest (RFCI) in the Federal Register for public comment to advance offshore wind planning and leasing in the Gulf of Maine. The two separate 45-day comment periods will clos
The University of New Orleans (UNO), in partnership with the UNO Research & Technology Foundation, has announced the launch of the Louisiana Wind Energy Hub, which will host an ecosystem for innovation, entrepreneurship, and education in offshore wind energy. The hub, to be located at the University
Ørsted and PetroVietnam Technical Services Corporation Mechanical & Construction (PTSC M&C) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to launch collaboration on offshore wind projects in Vietnam and globally. This collaboration aims to deliver offshore substations for Ørsted and T&T’s proposed
Investment in the offshore wind sector in the first half of this year amounted to USD 32 billion, 52 per cent more than in the same same period in 2021, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF). The financing of the 1 GW China Three Gorges (CTG) Yangjiang Yangxi Shapa Qingzhouwu Offshore Wind Farm for USD 2
Cerulean Winds and Ping Petroleum UK have signed an agreement to create one of the UK’s first offshore oil and gas facilities powered mainly by offshore wind. Under the agreement signed in a meeting hosted by the UK Secretary of State, Kwasi Kwarteng, the production facility at Ping Petroleum’s Aval
The United Kingdom and the Netherlands have shared ambitions when it comes to renewable energy in general and offshore wind in particular. Considering this, how can we collaborate and find synergy within the different projects that the two countries are developing in the North Sea? During this round
US President Joe Biden has announced that the Department of the Interior is advancing the development of offshore wind areas in the Gulf of Mexico and the Southern Atlantic. These areas cover 700,000 acres and have the potential to power over three million homes, President Biden said in his remarks
UK-based Offshore Operations Limited (OOL), a provider of operational and technical support services to the offshore renewables industry, has launched a full-service crew management offering for the offshore wind sector. OOL says it will provide turnkey crew management packages supporting the full l
On 7 July, the German Bundestag passed an amendment of the Wind Energy at Sea Act (WindSeeG) that includes several new criteria for future offshore wind tenders, including the so-called “negative bidding”, qualitative criteria focused on decarbonisation, supply chain, and workforce, as well as proje
