After EnBW decided to exit the Morgan and Mona offshore wind projects in the UK, totalling 3 GW, the company’s joint venture partner, JERA Nex BP, is acquiring EnBW’s stake in 1.5 GW Mona, while the joint venture will not continue with the Morgan offshore wind project. On 15 January, EnBW announced
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has granted Dominion Energy’s request for a preliminary injunction allowing construction to resume on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project while the company’s lawsuit challenging the stop-work order proceeds. “Our team will now
Only one wind turbine is left to be installed at the Vineyard Wind 1 site off Massachusetts, according to the project owner’s complaint filed with the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The 806 MW offshore wind farm was planned to be completed by 31 March and start delivering power
The US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted a preliminary injunction sought by Equinor for its Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, allowing construction activities to resume on the project that was more than 60 per cent complete at the time when the US government issued a stop-work
All five developers with offshore wind farms under construction in the US are now fighting the suspension order issued by the US Department of the Interior (DOI) in December 2025, as Vineyard Wind, a company owned 50:50 by Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), said on 15 January tha
EnBW has decided to withdraw from the Mona and Morgan offshore wind projects in the UK after not securing Contracts for Difference (CfDs) in the UK’s seventh allocation round. The company says that in a challenging investment environment, the two projects are no longer economically viable as per EnB
Some of the offshore wind projects that secured Contracts for Difference (CfDs) in the UK’s seventh allocation round (AR7) are gearing up towards final investment decisions, with the first AR7 projects expected to reach this stage as early as this year, with others following suit in 2027. The FID fo
Global investment firm KKR and RWE have signed an agreement under which KKR acquire a 50 per cent stake in each of RWE’s Norfolk Vanguard East and Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind projects, totalling 3.1 GW in installed capacity. The wind farms were just awarded Contracts for Difference (CfDs) in
The first batch of 15 fully commissioned transition pieces (TPs) produced by CNOOD-Wenchong Heavy Industries (CWHI) for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm has arrived in the Port of Leith, Scotland. The transition pieces were shipped from CWHI’s yard in China in November 2025 aboard the COSCO heavy-li
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has confirmed the permit for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht 2 offshore wind farm. With the permit now irrevocable, the developer has taken the full final investment decision (FID) for the Nordlicht offshore wind cluster, comprising Nordlicht 1 and No
The US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted the preliminary injunction sought by the joint venture between Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables for the Revolution Wind project, which was ordered to pause construction by the US government. When the stop-work order was issued on 22 Decembe
Vattenfall has started a tendering process that will award a EUR 3 million contract for blade repair services on three offshore wind farms that the company operates in Denmark and Germany. According to an early information notice issued on 8 January, interested parties can submit a request to partic
The UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has set a new deadline for the decision on the Development Consent Order (DCO) for Dogger Bank South, a 3 GW offshore wind project developed by RWE, which the company owns in partnership with Masdar. The statutory deadline for the decision o
Polish state-owned transmission system operator (TSO), Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE), has confirmed the technical readiness of the transmission infrastructure to accept power from offshore wind farms. “The new Choczewo station and the expanded Żarnowiec station, as well as the 400 kV line
