Italy’s Ministry of Ecological Transition has received 64 Expressions of Interest (EoI) for the development of floating offshore wind projects off the country’s coast. The Ministry is working at encouraging the development of a new generation of floating offshore wind farms, and the first round of b
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has been impacted by a cyber security incident. The incident occurred on Friday, 19 November. As a response, IT systems were shut down across multiple business units and locations to contain the issue, the company said. Vestas has since, together with external
Seaqualize, Van Oord, and the nautical research institute MARIN have trialled Seaqualize’s inline Active Heave Compensator (iAHC), the Delta600. The offshore lifting tool underwent 62 hours of offshore testing in the Dutch North Sea, Seaqualize said. Delta600 was tested for fixed-to-floating, floati
Shell has signed an agreement with the Irish blue economy developer Simply Blue Group to acquire a 51 per cent share of their Western Star venture which seeks to develop a floating wind farm off the Clare coast in Ireland. This follows a similar agreement between Shell and Simply Blue Group earlier
GE Renewable Energy has selected Cotes to provide dehumidifiers for the GE Haliade-X offshore wind turbines. The dry-air solution that Cotes provides to GE Renewable Energy, a combined desalter and dehumidifier, is now approved for global Haliade-X wind farm projects starting with the Dogger Bank wi
Ocean Winds, a joint venture between ENGIE and EDP Renewables, has entered into a collaboration agreement with the floating wind technology developer Principle Power, which will see the two companies cooperating on the design of the floating platforms for France’s first commercial-scale floating win
TÜV NORD has handed over the site specific design assessment (SSDA) conformity statement for the Italian Taranto offshore wind farm project to MingYang Smart Energy, the project’s wind turbine supplier. “The SSDA is important for developers or investors to verify the suitability of a turbine for spe
Wood has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HYGEN Energy to accelerate the production of green hydrogen for decarbonising transportation in the United Kingdom. Through the MoU, Wood and HYGEN Energy will develop solutions for future hydrogen production plants across the UK, beginning wi
Hexicon has partnered with Worley for the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), Engineering Procurement Fabrication (EPF), and installation management of the TwinWay project in Norway, a pilot to commercialise Hexicon’s floating offshore wind technology. Through the partnership, Worley will take over
The consortium behind the Gigastack offshore wind-to-hydrogen project plans to have a 100 MW electrolyser system up and running in the Humber, UK, in 2025. ITM Power, Ørsted, Phillips 66, and Element Energy have now published a report, highlighting the progress made on the project to date and descri
The third and final 108-metre blade has been installed on Siemens Gamesa’s SG 14-222 DD prototype offshore wind turbine at the test centre in Østerild, Denmark. With the final blade in place, the SG 14-222 DD prototype has become the world’s largest and most powerful turbine to be installed, taking
Shell New Energies and RWE Generation will explore the possibilities of establishing integrated projects for the production of green hydrogen using offshore wind power on a gigawatt scale in the industrial regions in the north-east of England such as Teesside and/or Humberside. The plan is one of th
The UK Department for Transport and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult have unveiled the Department’s ‘Operation Zero’, which aims to accelerate the decarbonisation of offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) vessels working in the North Sea’s offshore wind farms. At an event as part
DNV is looking for partners to launch a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) for floating offshore substations. ”In DNV’s latest Energy Transition Outlook Report, we predict that by 2050, the installed floating wind capacity will have grown to over 260 GW and that the technology will reach commercial-sc
