Avangrid, a US renewable energy company majority-owned by Spanish Iberdrola, has received the authorisation to build and operate its New England Wind offshore wind farms from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). This is the final approval needed from BOEM for the two projects offshore Massa
Eolus has submitted an application to the Swedish government for permission to build a 2.2 GW floating offshore wind farm at a site located 20 kilometres north of Gotska Sandön and about 100 kilometres southeast of Stockholm. The project, named Skidbladner and developed by Simply Blue Group, is plan
Just days after acquiring its first offshore wind site in Estonia, Norway’s Deep Wind Offshore has secured another area in the Estonian part of the Baltic Sea with a winning bid starting at approximately EUR 1.33 million. Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) annou
Delaware’s State Senate has passed a bill that enables the US state to issue an offshore wind solicitation to procure 1.2 GW of offshore wind generation capacity and in participate in regional offshore wind transmission planning. The Senate adopted the Delaware Energy Solutions Act of 2024 (Senate B
The US Department of Interior (DOI) will hold an offshore wind lease sale in the Central Atlantic in August this year, with the two areas auctioned by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) potentially generating up to 6.3 GW of renewable energy. BOEM will hold the auction on 14 August, featur
NOTE: Updated on 12 July with information on the expected timeframe within which the developers could submit a DCO application. SSE and Equinor, co-owners/developers of the Dogger Bank D offshore wind project, have submitted a Scoping Report for the 2 GW project to the UK’s Planning Inspectorate. Th
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) of the Wind Energy Area (WEA) in the Gulf of Maine. The WEA spans the federal waters off Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire and includes eight potential leasing areas that could house 15 GW of insta
European wind energy industry organisation, WindEurope, has warned that the negative bidding approach will lead to the bid costs falling onto the supply chain and/or electricity consumers after Germany and the Netherlands closed their latest offshore wind tenders, securing nearly EUR 4 billion in to
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued the planning approvals for Nordseecluster A, the first phase of RWE’s Nordseecluster offshore wind project. The Nordseecluster offshore wind project is being built around 46 kilometres north of the German island of Borkum and appro
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has approved Sunrise Wind’s construction and operations plan (COP), marking the final approval needed for the federal agency to move the 942 MW offshore wind project toward the start of offshore construction. Sunrise Wind, New York’s largest offshore w
Norway’s Deep Wind Offshore has been named the winner of an auction for the development of an offshore wind farm in the Saare 2.1 area in Estonia. The only bid was submitted by Deep Wind Offshore in the amount of EUR 2,457,000, which was also the starting price of the auction, according to Estonia’s
The Albanese government in Australia has offered Norway’s Equinor and its partner Oceanex Energy a feasibility licence for the Novocastrian Wind offshore wind project in the Hunter region. If the feasibility for the Novocastrian Wind Pty Ltd project is proven, the developer can then apply for a comm
India’s Union Cabinet has approved the viability gap funding (VGF) scheme for offshore wind energy projects totalling Rs. 7453 crores (approximately EUR 833 million). This includes about EUR 765 million for the installation and commissioning of 1 GW of offshore wind projects – 500 MW each off the co
