ScottishPower Renewables has submitted a Section 36 offshore consent application for the 2 GW MachairWind project to the Scottish government. The offshore wind farm is proposed to be built northwest of Islay and west of Colonsay, where 144 wind turbines would be installed. With an installed capacity
RWE has officially opened a new offshore wind control centre in Jemgum, East Frisia, from which the company will monitor and operate its offshore wind farms in Germany and continental Europe around the clock. The new facility, inaugurated on 25 June, will serve as a key operational hub for RWE’s gro
California has notified the US Department of the Interior (DOI) and Golden State Wind (GSW) of its intention to sue over the federal government’s agreement with the developer to terminate an offshore wind lease off the state’s Central Coast. In a Notice of Intent to Sue issued on 23 June, California
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has launched a second amendment procedure for the country’s 2025 Offshore Site Development Plan (Flächenentwicklungsplan/FEP), proposing several changes to offshore wind areas, auction schedules and grid connection plans in the North Sea. The
Haizea Wind Group has started manufacturing monopiles for the Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind farm in the UK, owned and developed by RWE. RWE secured a Contract for Difference (CfD) for the 1,380 MW Norfolk Vanguard West in Allocation Round 7 (AR7) in January, together with CfDs for the 1,380 MW
National Grid has received planning consent for the new Birkhill Wood substation in East Yorkshire, which will connect 4.22 GW of offshore wind capacity from three planned North Sea wind farms to the UK grid. Birkhill Wood will serve as the grid connection point for RWE and Masdar’s Dogger Bank Sout
Skyborn Renewables has agreed to sell a 25 per cent stake in its 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind project in Germany to Stadtwerke München (SWM). The transaction, announced on 22 June, remains subject to customary approvals and the successful close of construction financing, which is expected in the
OEG has returned to the East Anglia Two site for seabed clearance before construction work starts on the UK’s new offshore wind farm. According to a recently issued Notice to Mariners, the company will be carrying out the disposal of unexploded ordnance (UXO), boulder clearance, and the removal of o
The inter-array cable installation campaign at the Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm in Germany has been completed, with 48 cables laid, buried, terminated, and tested. “Cables rarely draw the attention that foundations, substations, or turbines do. Yet this package – laying, burial, termination,
Amazon and Skyborn Renewables have signed a 600 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) for electricity generated by the 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, in what the companies describe as the largest single PPA ever signed in Germany. The long-term agreement covers approximat
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) said on 17 June that it had reached an agreement with Invenergy under which the developer will relinquish four offshore wind leases in exchange for a USD 765 million (approximately EUR 664 million) reimbursement and redirect the capital into natural gas and ge
Germany has rejected a request from TotalEnergies to return one of its offshore wind sites in the North Sea to the State, with the country’s economy minister underlining that a concession award constitutes a binding commitment, according to a Bloomberg report from 17 June. The minister’s comment com
Seventeen of the total of 23 caissons have been installed at the Princess Elisabeth Island site, 45 kilometres off the Belgian coast, where TM Edison, a consortium of DEME and Jan De Nul, is building the first artificial energy island in the world. Developed by Belgium grid operator Elia Group, Prin
Taiwan now has 500 wind turbines installed in its waters, and a cumulative offshore wind capacity of 4.8 GW, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said on 14 June. The 500th turbine was installed on 12 June, with the milestone achieved only a few days after the latest report from the Global Wind E
