Waters offshore Italian municipality of Barletta have attracted three developers with plans to build floating wind farms. One of the projects, whose concession applications are currently being processed, is planned to have a capacity of 2.2 GW and to incorporate green hydrogen production. This is an
Crown Estate has confirmed that all three ScotWind Clearing applicants have signed seabed option agreements making their projects ready to move into the development stage. The three projects that made it into the development stage are the 500 MW floating wind farm proposed by Ocean Winds, the 1,800
Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm (PFOWF) has submitted the onshore planning application to the Highland Council for its 100 MW floating offshore wind project located off the north coast of Scotland. Following public consultation, very few changes were made to the application for Planning Permiss
Mainprize Offshore has won a contract for the provision of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) during the construction phase of the Vesterhav Nord and Syd offshore wind farms in the Danish North Sea. Under the contract, awarded following a tendering procedure, the UK-based company will be providing a 24-pa
A joint venture (JV) between BlueFloat Energy, Energy Estate, and Elemental Group have revealed their new offshore wind project, South Taranaki, off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island. The South Taranaki offshore wind project, which will use bottom-fixed technology, will be located 22 kilometre
Ørsted and T&T Group have signed a landmark agreement with the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s (MPI) National Innovation Center (NIC) to bolster technical capacity and build technological expertise in Vietnam’s offshore wind sector. The goal of this five-year cooperation agreement is to launch
Clinton Marine Survey, on behalf of OX2, has carried out a geophysical survey for the Galatea-Galene wind farm offshore Sweden. The survey of about 370 square kilometres was carried out by Clinton Marine Survey’s Northern Storm vessel over a five-week period and included both the wind farm area and
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has designated two Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore wind development, with the potential to produce enough clean energy to power nearly three million homes. The first WEA is located approximately 24 nautical miles off the coa
German EWE Group, which owns the Riffgat and Alpha Ventus offshore wind farms, the latter together with RWE and Vattenfall, has opened tenders for offshore helicopter services for the two wind farms located in the North Sea. Through the two tenders, open for applications until 2 December, a two-year
Dominion Energy Virginia, the Office of the Attorney General, Walmart, Sierra Club, and Appalachian Voices have filed a settlement agreement in Dominion Energy’s pending petition to the State Corporation Commission of Virginia (SCC) to reconsider the performance guarantee included in the final order
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a 50:50 joint venture between EDF Renewables and Shell New Energies US, has selected Ramboll for the design of the wind turbine foundations for Atlantic Shores Project 1, the 1.5 GW offshore wind farm planned to be built offshore New Jersey. Ramboll will provide a comp
German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz has selected the Dutch-Belgian joint venture (JV) comprising HSM Offshore Energy, Smulders, and Iv-Offshore & Energy to deliver the Ostwind 3 offshore high voltage substation in the Baltic Sea. The joint venture will be responsible for the e
Norway-headquartered GC Rieber Shipping has placed an order for two WindKeeper service operations vessels (SOVs) for offshore wind operations at Cemre shipyard in Türkiye. The shipowner and project house has set up a stand-alone company for the vessels called WindKeeper with a total investment of ap
A joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Subsea 7, and Ørsted has awarded Ocergy with a pre-FEED foundation design contract for its 100 MW Salamander floating offshore wind project in Scotland. Last year, Salamander signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ocergy to evaluate its foundation
