Tokyo Electric Power Company Renewable Power (TEPCO RP) has begun the environmental assessment process for a planned offshore wind farm of up to 420 MW off Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, one of the areas included in Japan’s first fixed-bottom offshore wind auction round, which was originally secured by a
Ho Chi Minh City’s Standing People’s Committee has reviewed a feasibility study for an offshore wind development proposed to have an installed capacity of 6 GW. Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Cong Vinh chaired a meeting on 20 August with relevant departments to hear
The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has granted Ventyr, a consortium of JERA Nex BP and Ingka Investments, a twelve-month extension of the deadline for submitting a license application for the Sørlige Nordsjø II (Southern North Sea II) project, Norway’s first commercial offshore wind farm. Ventyr submi
Pacifico Energy Korea has been selected as the sole developer of the 2.13 GW Jindo Offshore Wind Integrated Cluster Phase 2 in South Korea, the US-based renewable energy company said on 20 August. The cluster will comprise Pacifico’s Manho and Jindo Baram offshore wind projects. The selection follow
Ørsted is developing a new offshore wind project with a potential capacity of up to 2 GW in Taiwan, with the development now entering the environmental assessment process. Named Dadu II, the project would cover approximately 234.6 square kilometres of sea area off Changhua County, with the nearest p
Türkiye will hold its first offshore wind Renewable Energy Resource Area (YEKA) tender in the first quarter of 2027. Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said the tender will be announced in September, ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference COP31, which is scheduled to take p
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
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
Vattenfall has been selected as the winning bidder to develop the Nordsøen Midt (North Sea I Mid) and Hesselø offshore wind farms in Denmark’s latest tender. The two projects are scheduled to be fully operational by 2032 and will have a combined capacity of at least 1.8 GW, enough to generate electr
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
The Philippine Department of Energy (DOE) has published an indicative timeline for the recalibration of the fifth round of its Green Energy Auction Program (GEA-5), the country’s first for offshore wind, with the auction now tentatively scheduled for 1 December 2026. The DOE issued the official Noti
