The US-based National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium has made available USD 9 million through its Innovation in Offshore Wind Solicitation 1.0 for offshore wind technology research and development projects. The funding is part of the consortium’s long-term strategy for identifying
North East England’s offshore wind cluster, Energi Coast, is starting a project which aims to produce a comprehensive report of the region’s supply chain capabilities in the offshore wind industry. The supply chain mapping project will identify the range of capabilities available throughout North Ea
Ørsted and its partners have secured funding for the Westküste 100 renewable hydrogen project in Germany. The partners received funding confirmation from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy as the first large-scale hydrogen project in Germany within the Reallabor (real-world l
A floating solar demonstration project to be installed within the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm site will be constructed in 2025, according to TNO, the Dutch organization for applied scientific research. TNO will work on research and demonstration of offshore solar energy in the new offsho
The Scottish government will over the summer release five reports aimed at further informing the relation between seabird population and offshore wind projects. The goal is to inform new guidance on seabird population analysis and map how sensitive certain populations can be to potential offshore wi
The 759 MW Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm will include five technology demonstrations that could be implemented at full-scale in the future, CrossWind, the consortium developing the wind farm, said. These include a floating solar park, short-term battery storage, wind turbines that are op
The offshore wind farms that won the Contracts for Difference (CfDs) in the latest UK CfD round will most likely be the first to operate with “negative subsidies”, even before the zero-subsidy projects awarded in auctions in the Netherlands and Germany. According to an analysis by an international t
Ørsted has joined a GBP 400,000 sea state forecasting project, launched by UK’s national Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Centre of Excellence, a collaboration between the University of Hull and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. The project’s goal is to deliver a significant reduction in m
Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has once again issued a tender for an operator of the FINO2 research platform. BMWi had issued a similar tender back in March which was cancelled in June after none of the offers received met the required conditions. The ministry now
Sif Group, producer of large tubular structures presents their latest innovation: Skybox, all the functionalities of the transition piece onto the monopile in one lift. Michel Kurstjens, CCO Sif Group, said: “We always try to be ahead of the pack and be a part of what is needed in offshore wind in o
Australian engineering company Worley has completed the accessibility design assessment for Saitec Offshore Technologies’ DemoSATH floating wind turbine. DemoSATH is a 2 MW turbine mounted onto a concrete floating foundation which will be deployed at the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) open se
Belgium’s largest offshore wind farm, Norther, is taking part in a project to determine whether seaweed could be grown on a large scale in the areas between the wind farm’s turbines. The Belgian-Dutch consortium “Wier & Wind” has started the pilot project, described as the world’s first, with the pr
The Taiwanese government has, in cooperation with DNV GL and other classification societies and research centres, launched the Taiwan Offshore Wind Project Certification Alliance (TOWPCA) to promote the localization of its offshore wind sector. The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI
The Carbon Trust sees 70 GW of floating wind installed capacity by 2040, according to a new summary report on the findings from the second phase of the Floating Wind Joint Industry Project (JIP). The report outlines technology challenges that need to be addressed so the commercialisation of floating
