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
Energy major Total and Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) have signed a series of agreements to co-develop an initial 2.3 GW portfolio of floating offshore wind projects in Korea. The portfolio consists of five projects, three in Ulsan totaling 1.5 GW and two in South Jeolla Province totaling
Denmark’s Wind Power LAB has developed a drone-based internal blade inspection concept for offshore wind turbines. A set of trials was recently executed on both a factory site and on an operational 3.6 MW turbine in collaboration with Ørsted. According to Wind Power LAB, by applying a drone for the
A consortium comprising GE Renewable Energy, LM Wind Power and TNO is building a test facility for wind turbine rotors, which will be largest of its kind once built at LM Wind Power’s WMC Technology Center in Wieringerwerf, the Netherlands. The test rig, being constructed under the three-year STRETC
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Advance Northumberland have established a partnership to develop a new facility for testing the next generation of offshore wind turbines. The Energy Central Offshore Wind Demonstrator will be designed to host one large prototype turbine for testing and w
SEA-KIT’s 12-metre Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV), for which the company recently received an order from Fugro, has completed a 22-day demonstration project, carrying out remote surveys on Europe’s continental margin in the Atlantic. “The project’s overall aim was to demonstrate the capabilities of c
The BlueSATH floating wind turbine prototype has been installed and commissioned at its site offshore Santander, Spain. Saitec Offshore Technologies set off the turbine towing operation from Astander’s Dock Pontejos towards the final destination 800 meters away from the Cantabrian coast. According t
The BlueSATH floating wind turbine prototype has departed for installation offshore Santander in Spain, Saitec Offshore Technologies said. Once installed, the 1:6 prototype of the BlueSATH (Swinging Around Twin Hull) turbine will operate for a period of 12 months after which it will be completely de
Aker Solutions’ offshore wind spin-off, Aker Offshore Wind, will initially focus on deep-water fixed-bottom and floating wind projects in four different markets: South Korea, the USA, Scotland, and Norway. ScotWind According to a company presentation, Aker Offshore Wind has entered into an agreement
The University of Maine will collaborate with the Mitsubishi Corporation and RWE Renewables to develop UMaine’s floating offshore wind technology demonstration project off the coast of Maine. New England Aqua Ventus, LLC (NEAV), a joint venture between Diamond Offshore Wind, a subsidiary of the Mits
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
Fugro has ordered two Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs) from SEA-KIT, which the company will use in offshore wind and oil and gas sectors in the North Sea and the Asia-Pacific region. The order follows the news from March, when the two companies announced they entered a strategic partnership to develo
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
