Editors’ Picks | Offshore Wind News in 2024: ‘The First, The Largest, The Record’

Some news are important for the offshore wind industry at large, some are significant for parts of the supply chain or in certain regions, and some are just good to know. With 366 days and thousands of news in 2024 behind us, the task of choosing only a few stories was not an easy one for the offshoreWIND.biz editorial team. In the overview below, you can find several of the many articles that we consider worth a reminder.

Like in all other industries, especially the more complex ones, things can go wrong in offshore wind. In 2024, most incident reports involved blade events and a vessel hitting a wind turbine.

Part of Damaged Blade MIA at Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm Wind Farm Update Bad Streak for GE Vernova as Another Blade Fails at Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm in UK Fixed-Bottom UPDATED: 20 MW Wind Turbine Prototype in China Suffers Blade Failure — Reports Wind Turbines … And Get Fixed Offshore wind infrastructure and the supply chain are quick to rectify even major issues, as some stories last year have shown.

All Three Yunlin Monopiles that Sustained Pile Runs Now Removed Wind Farm Update All Monopiles Up at Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm, Over Half of Wind Turbines Connected to Taiwanese Grid Fixed-Bottom Not Just Wind The number of power-to-X and system integration projects is increasing, with offshore wind-generated electricity to be used to power oil & gas platforms and produce green hydrogen, and offshore wind farms starting to include floating solar plants.

Vattenfall, CIP to Integrate Large-Scale Floating Solar, Green Hydrogen Systems with New 2 GW Dutch Offshore Wind Farm Power-to-X TotalEnergies Buys Into RWE’s Dutch Offshore Wind Farm to Produce Green Hydrogen; Contracts Signed with Main Suppliers Business & Finance Work Starts on World’s Largest Floating Solar Project, Part of RWE’s OranjeWind Business & Finance The First Being a young industry, pioneering technologies and methodologies in offshore wind are a regular occurrence. And with the global market growing, so is the number of countries having their first offshore wind farms up and running.

First Commercial-Scale Seaweed Farm Between Wind Turbines Fully Operational in Netherlands Environment South Korea’s First Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Farm Delivers First Power Fixed-Bottom World’s First Energy Island Starts Taking Shape – Video Energy Islands ‘World’s First’ Subsea Power Hub for Floating Wind to Be Tested in Norway Grid Connection The Largest Wind turbines are getting bigger and more powerful. But so are offshore wind farms, vessels and, looking at some 2024 news, power purchase contracts.

26 MW Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Delivered in China Vessels World’s First 26 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Rolls Off Production Line Technology Construction to Soon Begin on Biggest US Offshore Wind Farm Wind Farm Update PHOTO: Mingyang’s 16.6 MW Dual-Turbine Floating Wind Platform Enters Operation in China Floating Wind The Record Records are there to be broken and in 2024, there were more than a few news on things never previously achieved. As reports on 2023 developments in the industry were published at the beginning of 2024, we decided to include those too.