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  • BP, EnBW to Start Site Investigations for 3 GW Offshore Wind Project in UK

    21 June 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    A geophysical, geotechnical and environmental (benthic) survey at the sites the Crown Estate awarded to a consortium between BP and EnBW earlier this year is set to start on 27 June. The proposed 3 GW Yellow North and South offshore wind project consists of two sites in the Irish Sea, off the coasts of North […]

  • BlackRock to Buy Renewables Investor Global Infrastructure Partners for USD 12.5 Billion

    15 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Industry

    US-based investment company, BlackRock, has agreed to buy compatriot independent infrastructure fund manager, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), in a USD 12.5 billion cash and shares deal. Under the deal, the world’s largest asset manager will take over GIP for USD 3 billion in cash and approximately 12 million shares of BlackRock common stock. Founded in […]

  • Corio Unveils First Offshore Wind Projects in US as JV with TotalEnergies Submits 1.3 GW Proposal in New Jersey

    3 October 2023
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Corio Generation and TotalEnergies, through the Attentive Energy joint venture company in the US, have submitted a proposal in response to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities’ third offshore wind solicitation. The joint venture announced the bid for the 1,342 MW Attentive Energy Two project on 2 October, when Corio was named as a […]

  • Polish Government Pinpoints Optimal Offshore Wind Installation Hub

    10 August 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    The Polish government has identified the Port of Gdynia as an optimal location for the construction of an installation terminal for future offshore wind farms. On 30 July, the Polish Council of Ministers adopted a resolution on the installation terminal for offshore wind farms submitted by the Ministry of Infrastructure. The installation terminal is expected […]

  • Avangrid’s 2.6 GW Two-Phased Offshore Wind Project Could Get Federal Go-Ahead in April

    27 February 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review of the 2.6 GW New England Wind offshore wind project, proposed to be built in a lease area off Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York. BOEM has now published a final environmental impact statement (FEIS) for the project and expects to issue […]

  • The Switch Introduces New Full-power Converter Series at China Wind Power 2011

    19 October 2011
    Technology

      The new full-power converter design by The Switch features top fault ride-through (FRT) capability, allowing better grid side performance. The new converters match the most stringent grid code in the world to date, the German BDEW 2008 directive, and they also comply with E.ON 2006, Transmission Code 2007, and Chinese grid code 2008. During […]

  • Norwegian Offshore Wind Newcomer In Partnership Talks for Scottish Offshore Wind-O&G Electrification Auction

    2 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Havfram is in early talks with a partner(s) for the Scottish Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) offshore wind seabed leasing round, according to the company’s press release from 2 March. Six months ago, Crown Estate Scotland announced it would organise a specific leasing round prioritising oil and gas asset electrification. The auction is […]

  • Scottish Wave and Tidal Industry to Get GBP 6 Mln

    3 April 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    The marine energy sector is to benefit from £6 million in funding to further develop testing of new wave and tidal energy prototypes in the seas around Scotland. Scottish Enterprise is launching the third round of the remaining competitive funding from the initial WATERS fund in collaboration with Highlands & Islands Enterprise. This latest round […]

  • Costa Rica Making First Offshore Wind Moves

    1 September 2021
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Jobs & Recruitment

    The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the Vice-ministry of Energy and Environmental Quality (MINAE) of Ministry of Environment, and Energy and Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) have kicked-off a joint initiative to build knowledge about the local benefits of offshore wind and explore pathways for its future development and growth in Costa Rica. The closed-door […]

  • Kite Power Systems Completes Senior Management Roster

    3 July 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Scotland-based kite power generation technology developer, Kite Power Systems (KPS), has appointed Simon Heyes as Chief Executive and Dr Andrew Tyler CBE as non-executive Chair.

  • Gazelle Modular Hybrid Floater to Be Built in Dubai

    3 August 2022
    R&D, Technology

    Floating offshore wind platform developer Gazelle Wind Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ferrofab FZE, a UAE-based engineering and manufacturing firm, to establish a Center for Manufacturing Excellence at the Ferrofab Jebel Ali facility in Dubai. This Center is being established to manufacture a Gazelle hybrid modular offshore wind platform, based on Gazelle’s […]

  • Barclays Supports Moray West Offshore Wind Farm with GBP 95.5 Million Loan

    4 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development

    Barclays has committed GBP 95.5 million in loans to support the Moray West offshore wind farm, a project that aims to supply 50 per cent of Scotland’s electricity. Moray West, part of Ocean Winds portfolio, has secured a GBP 95.5 million loan from Barclays to support the next phase of the project’s construction as part […]

  • BOEM Kicks Off Environmental Review of Proposed 157-Turbine Wind Project Offshore New Jersey

    18 March 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has revealed that it will initiate the environmental review of a proposed wind project offshore New Jersey, the US, known as Atlantic Shores North, that would feature up to 157 wind turbines. BOEM published a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the […]

  • Vestas Goes Modular on World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine

    9 March 2022
    Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology

    The two side-compartments for the Vestas V236-15.0 MW™ prototype wind turbine nacelle have arrived in Denmark. The side-compartments were then transported to Vestas’ factory in Esbjerg, where the full power converter system will be installed. According to Vestas, the modular nacelle components take full advantage of industrial standards, as the side-compartments are dimensionally designed to […]

  • Offshore Energy Conference: Developments in Wave and Tidal Energy

    9 October 2014

    There is a lot to tell about marine renewable energy. The industry is developing fast, promising initiatives are being undertaken and there is a great need for renewable energy. Delegates of Offshore Energy have the opportunity to be informed in half a day about recent technical inventions, field experiences of a number of partnerships as well […]

  • Orange Blue Terminal Eemshaven Scores Hohe See and Albatros Contract

    18 April 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The Buss Orange Blue Terminal Eemshaven has signed a contract with GeoSea for port logistics services of 87 monopiles and transition pieces for the 497MW Hohe See and the 112MW Albatros offshore wind farms in the German North Sea.

  • Spanish Haizea to Operate Maryland’s Offshore Wind Monopile and Tower Factory

    29 March 2023
    Business & Finance

    US Wind, the developer of the MarWin and Momentum Wind projects in Maryland, has partnered with the Spanish manufacturer of offshore wind monopiles and towers, Haizea Wind Group, to manage and operate Sparrows Point Steel, the state’s first permanent offshore wind factory. The new facility in Baltimore County will serve for the manufacture of steel […]

  • WIND FARM SUPPORT VESSELS: The Class of 26

    4 May 2015

    It was only 4 years ago at Seawork International 2011 that a completely new class of offshore wind farm vessels was defined when a new vessel, 26 metres long with a 10 metres beam, was named Marineco Shamal and handed over to the owner Marineco. So began the class of 26. As this article is […]

  • Energy Tide 2 Harnesses Tides for Electricity (USA)

    20 July 2011

    Clean energy entrepreneurs are exploring how to turn tidal power into zero-emissions electricity with very little environmental impact. The motion of the rise and fall of the tides carries enormous potential energy to the coasts twice a day, like clockwork. However, harnessing that power has long proved problematic. At the Bay of Fundy — near […]

  • 55 Million People Live Near Offshore Wind Power (USA)

    16 November 2011

    NRG Bluewater Wind President Peter Mandelstam used the proceeds from the 2001 sale of a wind project he built in Montana to found Bluewater Wind and focus on ocean wind. “I stopped doing on-land projects,” Mandelstam said, “because I could see the market was crowded, all the best sites were going to be taken up […]

  • Japanese Companies Make First Offshore Wind Foray Abroad

    4 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Toho Gas, and Hokuriku Electric Power Company have agreed to acquire a 25 per cent stake in Formosa I International Investment from Macquarie’s Green Investment Group in order to participate in Taiwan’s offshore wind power business. This will mark the first investment made into the offshore wind power generation space […]

  • Maryland Aims to Quadruple Offshore Wind Capacity by 2035

    4 April 2023
    Authorities

    The state administration of Maryland, US, has set a goal of achieving 8.5 GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2035, by which time the state aims to have 100 per cent of clean energy in its energy mix. To support this target, the administration is working to establish new lease areas and strengthen the […]

  • Japanese Shipping Giant Sails Into Floating Offshore Wind

    3 December 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), one of the largest ocean shipping companies in the world, and Scotland’s Flotation Energy plc. have agreed to jointly evaluate offshore wind development opportunities in Japan. The agreement builds on the 2 GW portfolio of offshore floating wind projects in Japan being developed by Flotation Energy (Japan) Co. Ltd., […]

  • Orion Completes Monopile Installation at Moray West, Wind Orca Arrives in Scotland Ahead of Turbine Installation

    15 April 2024
    Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Belgian offshore construction company DEME, using its vessel Orion, has completed the installation of monopiles at the Moray West offshore wind farm site in Scotland.  Monopile installation at Moray West started in October 2023, with Boskalis’s vessel Bokalift 2 deployed for the work and Orion taking over in February. DEME’s Orion installed 29 monopiles for Ocean […]

  • Australia: Carnegie Wave Energy’s Chairman Addresses Shareholders

    2 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Carnegie Wave Energy Limited Chairman, Grant J Mooney, releases the following statement for the shareholders: Since we last met in 2011, Carnegie has continued to progress towards development of the Perth Wave Energy Project off Garden Island, here in Western Australia. In an era when global financial markets are reluctant to support investments in emerging […]

  • ESB and Ørsted Enter 5 GW Offshore Wind, Green Hydrogen Partnership in Ireland; Reveal Plan to Bid in Next Irish Auction

    2 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    ESB and Ørsted have signed an agreement to jointly develop a portfolio of up to 5 GW of offshore wind and complementary green hydrogen projects in Ireland, with the first of these offshore wind projects expected to compete in the next Irish auction, ORESS 2.1. The agreement also marks Ørsted’s entry into the Irish offshore […]