Maritime UK has unveiled its Offshore Wind Plan which makes a series of recommendations for how the maritime sector, the offshore wind sector, and governments can work together to maximise growth. The plan outlines how the growth of offshore wind can provide opportunities across the maritime supply
In 2022, 9.4 GW of offshore wind capacity was installed worldwide and China alone installed 6.8 GW of this. The country’s top position in adding new offshore wind capacity will likely be preserved in 2023, as well, as China is also leading in projects currently under construction, according to a new
A Denmark-based company Continuum plans to make all wind turbine blades fully recyclable and stop landfilling and their emissions-intensive processing into cement with six industrial-scale recycling factories across Europe, backed by investment from the Danish venture capital firm Climentum Capital
The UK is keen on speeding up the buildout of offshore wind farms in its territorial waters, a goal that was more firmly set in the new Growth Plan that contains a list of offshore wind projects to be accelerated. However, to do so, the country needs to take on the difficult task of tackling [&helli
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) Workers has called on all RMT Ørsted members to take strike action this month over rates of pay and conditions of service. The members who will go on strike are working in Ørsted’s offshore wind operations team. The trade union has instructed
A new joint industry project (JIP) in the UK will investigate offshore storage areas for fully assembled floating wind turbines waiting to be installed at their dedicated project sites in the Celtic Sea. Led by Offshore Solutions Group and delivered in partnership with HR Wallingford, the TS-Flow© J
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
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
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
A circular economy around offshore wind could provide an extra 20,000 jobs across the UK, on top of the 60,000 projected by the UK Government to be employed within the sector by 2030. This is according to a new report produced by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, in partnership with Zero
Construction works on the new offshore wind foundation factory in the UK, which will produce XXL monopiles, started on 7 July. The new facility, located at Redcar’s Teesworks, is being built by SeAH, a subsidiary of South Korea’s pipe manufacturer SeAH Steel Holdings, and will produce between 100 an
RWE and Tata Steel, the largest steelmaker in the UK, have committed to working together to support the delivery of floating wind structures in the Celtic Sea from Tata Steel’s South Wales facilities. The two companies will work together to identify the steel components that could be supplied from T
The global pipeline of offshore wind projects which are operational, under construction, consented, or being planned has almost doubled over the past twelve months, from 429 GW in 2021 to 846 GW today, new research published by RenewableUK shows. Europe has a pipeline of 350 GW (with 26 GW fully ope
Jobs in the rapidly expanding offshore wind industry in the UK could grow to almost 100,000 by 2030, with the private sector expected to invest GBP 155 billion (approx. EUR 180 billion) in new offshore wind projects over the next eight years, according to a new report published by the Offshore Wind
