A comprehensive offshore wind supply chain assessment and gap analysis is set to be undertaken in Massachusetts in support of the growing offshore wind industry in and around the state. Xodus Group announced on 12 October that it will, together with BW Research Partnership and in coordination with G
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer MingYang Smart Energy has signed an agreement with DNV GL for the Type Certification of MingYang’s new MySE11-203 offshore wind turbine. MingYang’s recently announced model has a rated power of 11 MW and a rotor diameter of 203 metres. The turbine’s 99-metre carbon-
The UK government has agreed to invest in the development of a Drone Port at Montrose in Scotland. The government has set aside GBP 5.6 million out of the GBP 26.5 million Angus Fund to promote North Angus and Montrose as a clean growth zone where new technologies can be used to improve energy effic
Ørsted and Yara, the world’s leading fertilizer company, have teamed up on a project to use renewable hydrogen in the production of green ammonia. Yara and Ørsted will jointly develop a 100 MW wind-powered electrolyser plant for renewable hydrogen production, aiming to replace fossil-based hydrogen
Principle Power has partnered with Irish company Technology From Ideas (TfI) for the development of shallow-water mooring components for floating offshore wind. An international consortium led by Principle Power secured a contract by the U.S. National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortiu
The Iberdrola-led international consortium has launched the FLAGSHIP project to develop and fabricate the first 10+ MW floating offshore wind turbine. The turbine will be supported by a floating semi‐submersible concrete structure based on Olav Olsen’s OO-Star Wind Floater concept. The prototype is
Maersk Supply Service and Ørsted will jointly test a prototype buoy that will act as both a mooring point and a charging station for vessels. The solution will be tested on one of Ørsted’s offshore wind farms in 2021. The buoy can be used to charge the smaller battery- or hybrid-electrical vessels a
Denmark-headquartered offshore wind developer Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) has installed a floating LiDAR off South Korea. According to the company’s post on social media, the LiDAR was “finally” deployed on 18 September following a series of typhoons in Korea. The floating LiDAR will carry ou
A consortium including Engie and LM Wind Power has launched a project to design and manufacture the wind industry’s first 100 per cent recyclable turbine blade. The ZEBRA (Zero wastE Blade ReseArch) project is led by the French research center IRT Jules Verne. Apart from Engie and LM Wind Power, the
National Grid Ventures and TenneT have signed a cooperation agreement to explore the feasibility of connecting Dutch and British offshore wind farms to the energy systems of both countries via interconnectors. Under the terms of the cooperation agreement, TenneT and National Grid Ventures will explo
EnBW and aerodyn engineering have started testing the scaled-down version of the Nezzy² floating wind turbine in Greifswald Bay in the German Baltic Sea. The 18 metre tall, 1:10-scale prototype consists of two wind turbines on a floating platform made of precast concrete elements. The prototype was
Development of an indigenous green hydrogen industry could generate GBP 320 billion for the UK economy and sustain up to 120,000 jobs by 2050, a new report finds. The Offshore Wind and Hydrogen: Solving the Integration Challenge Report was released by the Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) and th
Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has selected Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) to join a floating wind technology project. As part of the project titled Research and Development on Technologies to Lower the Cost of Floating Offshore Wind
Tech giant Apple will invest in the construction of two MHI Vestas 8.4 MW offshore wind turbines which will be installed onshore near the town of Esbjerg in Denmark. The 200-metre-tall turbines are expected to produce 62 gigawatt-hours of electricity each year. The power produced at Esbjerg will sup
