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  • Swedish County Recommends Gov’t Approval for 5.5 GW Aurora Offshore Wind Farm

    3 June 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The County Administrative Board of Gotland has suggested that the Government should issue a permit for the Aurora offshore wind farm, a project developed by OX2 and Ingka Investments, under the Act governing Sweden’s exclusive economic zone. If the government gives an approval, the first phase of the 5.5 GW offshore wind project could be […]

  • Japanese Start Building UK’s First HVDC Cable Factory

    15 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Transition

    Japan-headquartered Sumitomo Electric has kicked off the construction of its subsea cable factory in Scotland, set to supply critical elements for the reinforcement of the UK electricity transmission grid and for connecting renewable energy production facilities to the grid. Sumitomo Electric held the groundbreaking ceremony together with its subsidiary Sumitomo Electric UK Power Cables on 14 […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Taps North Star for East Anglia THREE SOV

    24 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain, Vessels

    North Star has secured a contract with Siemens Gamesa to build a hybrid service operations vessel (SOV) bound for long-term charter at the 1.4 GW East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm, located off the Suffolk coast, England. The construction project for the SOV of VARD 4 19 design has been awarded by North Star to […]

  • Industry Players Launch New Innovation Challenges for Floating Offshore Wind

    5 June 2024
    Business development, Floating Wind, Industry, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    Four new challenges, which aim to push the boundaries of innovation in floating offshore wind, have been launched in the NOW Accelerator programme. Presented by industry players Vattenfall and Seagust, Equinor, Deep Wind Offshore and EDF Renewables, and Å Energi and Corio, the four new challenges are part of the NOW Accelerator programme by Norwegian […]

  • Ocean Winds, Latin America’s Largest Power Utility Company Join Forces on Brazilian Offshore Wind

    23 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Ocean Winds, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, and Eletrobras have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to study the development of offshore wind in Brazil. The agreement was signed during a ceremony attended by Elio Wolff, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of Eletrobras, and Rafael Munilla, Chief Business Development Officer […]

  • Vattenfall and BASF Hire Havfram for Nordlicht Offshore Wind Project

    25 September 2024
    Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Havfram has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall and BASF for their Nordlicht offshore wind farm cluster in the German North Sea. The Nordlicht wind farm zone, located 85 kilometres north of the island of Borkum, consists of two separate sites: Nordlicht I, with an expected capacity of 980 MW, and Nordlicht II, with an […]

  • The Crown Estate Backs Offshore Wind and Marine Research with GBP 7.3 Million

    21 November 2024
    Business development, Environment, R&D, Research & Development

    The Crown Estate has pledged GBP 7.3 million (approximately EUR 8.76 million) to support five research projects aimed at accelerating the UK’s path towards a net-zero energy system while also protecting marine ecosystems. According to the Crown Estate, the five projects will aim to fill gaps around the impacts of offshore wind farms on marine […]

  • Rovco to Work on Site Characterisation at 1.5 GW Offshore Wind Project in UK

    22 May 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Rovco has been selected for site characterisation work on the 1.5 GW Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind project in the UK. With the project scheduled to start imminently, the UK-based company will be responsible for carrying out a full geophysical investigation of several key sites at Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind off the Lincolnshire coast. The scope […]

  • AI-Driven Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Makes Debut Offshore Scotland

    23 September 2024
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Deep technology company Beam has deployed what the company describes as the world’s first autonomous underwater vehicle (UAV) driven by artificial intelligence (AI). The technology has already been used to inspect jacket structures on the Seagreen offshore wind farm, a joint venture partnership between SSE Renewables, TotalEnergies and PTTEP, in a commercial environment. According to […]

  • UK Unveils GBP 50 Million Fund to Boost Offshore Wind Supply Chain

    24 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    The Crown Estate has initiated a Supply Chain Accelerator to stimulate early-stage investment in the UK offshore wind supply chain. The accelerator is a new GBP 50 million (approximately EUR 58.7 million) fund created to accelerate and de-risk the early-stage development of projects linked to offshore wind. An initial GBP 10 million round of funding […]

  • GE to Test 15.5 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Prototype in Norway

    5 July 2024
    Business development, Industry, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    The US-headquartered GE Vernova plans to install a prototype of its next-generation 15.5 MW Haliade-X offshore wind turbine in Gulen, Norway, following a NOK 331 million (approximately EUR 29 million) funding approval from Enova, a government-backed agency. The funds from Enova have been secured by Wergeland Group and Georgine Wind, which is owned by GE […]

  • Fugro Completes Four-Year Work for Atlantic Shores, Says Integrated Campaign Programme 30 Pct More Efficient

    5 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro has completed four years of continuous survey operations for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind in New York and New Jersey, where the company was supporting the site assessment for five offshore wind projects across three lease areas. According to Fugro, a new data collection and management approach employed on the Atlantic Shores portfolio of projects […]

  • Lamprell to Build Transition Pieces for RWE’s 2.8 GW Norfolk Vanguard Offshore Wind Projects

    26 September 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    RWE has awarded two contracts to Lamprell Energy Limited for the future supply of transition pieces to its two east coast UK offshore wind projects currently under development, Norfolk Vanguard West and Norfolk Vanguard East. RWE and Lamprell marked the signing of the contract with a small event at the WindEnergy Hamburg 2024 conference. The […]

  • Port San Luis, CET to Assess Offshore Wind O&M Port Potential in California

    25 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Research & Development

    The US Port San Luis Harbor District has entered into a project evaluation agreement with Clean Energy Terminals (CET), a developer of offshore wind port facilities across the US, to jointly evaluate the feasibility of an offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) port facility in California’s San Luis Obispo Bay. Project evaluation is expected to […]

  • OEEC First Offshore Energy Event with Dedicated Nature Enhancement Content Programme, Exhibition Pavilion

    22 November 2024
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting, Supply Chain

    The Netherlands is a pioneer in including nature enhancement stipulations in offshore (wind) energy tenders. The Dutch event for the international offshore energy and maritime industries, Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC), has also given nature enhancement a prime spot in this year’s edition, including it more prominently in the conference programme and on the […]

  • Parkwind and Alinta Secure Feasibility Licence for Wind Farm Project Offshore Australia

    26 September 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Australian government has preliminarily offered a feasibility licence to Spinifex Offshore Wind Farm, a potential offshore wind farm to be developed off Southwest Victoria by Alinta Energy and Parkwind. The feasibility license grants the project, located in the Southern Ocean zone, off Victoria’s south-west coast, the opportunity to explore the viability or practicality of […]

  • Roadmap Outlines Path for Türkiye to Reach 7 GW of Offshore Wind by 2040

    8 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    The World Bank Group, in collaboration with the Republic of Türkiye’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, has launched an offshore wind roadmap for the country that outlines the potential for up to 7 GW of capacity to be installed by 2040. The Government of Türkiye has set a target of 5 GW installed capacity […]

  • EnBW, TotalEnergies Win in 2.5 GW German Offshore Wind Auction as RWE Bows Out

    24 June 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Germany’s Federal Network Agency has awarded 2.5 GW of offshore wind across two areas in its latest auction that saw two bidders collectively pay EUR 3 billion for the opportunity to develop in the North Sea. EnBW has secured the 1 GW N-12.3 area in the German North Sea. The company won the site at […]

  • WindEurope Warns Against Negative Bidding (Again) as Germany, Netherlands Bag EUR 4 Billion Through Offshore Wind Tenders

    27 June 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Industry, Planning & Permitting

    European wind energy industry organisation, WindEurope, has warned that the negative bidding approach will lead to the bid costs falling onto the supply chain and/or electricity consumers after Germany and the Netherlands closed their latest offshore wind tenders, securing nearly EUR 4 billion in total through winning bids. “The negative bidding amounts are a straight […]

  • 5.3 GW of UK Offshore Wind Projects Secure Contracts for Difference

    3 September 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Offshore wind developers have been awarded contracts for approximately 5.3 GW of capacity in the UK’s latest Contract for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 6 (AR6). Ørsted received the largest CfD for offshore wind, securing 2.4 GW for the Hornsea 4 offshore wind project. The offshore wind farms awarded CfDs are the 288 MW Inch Cape […]

  • Cyan, Hyundai Asset Team Up to Strengthen Supply Chain of South Korea’s Offshore Wind Sector

    13 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Cyan Renewables has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Seoul-headquartered Hyundai Asset Management to facilitate the strategic investment in South Korea’s offshore wind supply chain. Under the MoU, Cyan Renewables and Hyundai Asset Management seek to build vessel capacity and strengthen the supply chain for South Korea’s growing offshore wind sector. In doing so, […]

  • OEEC 2024: A Lot to Talk About

    24 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Clean Fuels, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Green Hydrogen, Grid Connection, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Ports & Logistics, Power-to-X, Research & Development, Storage, Transition

    In a little more than five years, renewable energy targets set for 2030 will come knocking on the door. Whether they will be reached, missed or overshot, depends on multiple factors, most of which concern policymakers and the energy sector itself. At the end of 2023, the EU increased the binding renewable energy target for […]

  • Masdar, Bapco Energies Eye 2 GW of Wind Projects Offshore Bahrain

    3 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    UAE-based Masdar has signed an agreement with Bahrain’s Bapco Energies to explore the development and investment in wind projects in Bahrain with a potential of 2 GW capacity. Marking a strategic entry into the Bahrain market for the UAE’s clean energy company, the agreement for near-shore and offshore wind farms is Masdar’s first in the […]

  • Bibby Marine Orders ‘World’s First’ eCSOV

    30 April 2024
    Vessels

    Bibby Marine has signed a shipbuilding contract with Gondan to build what the company says is the world’s first truly zero-emission, electric Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (eCSOV). The eCSOV will be built in Gondan’s Asturias shipyard in Spain and is scheduled to be delivered in 2026. After a thorough tendering process involving a variety of […]

  • RWE’s UK Offshore Wind Farm Extension Project Moves Forward

    24 April 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The UK Planning Inspectorate has accepted RWE’s application for the Five Estuaries offshore wind farm for examination. The final planning decision for the project is expected in the summer of 2025. The project now moves into the pre-examination phase of the consenting process, with the examination phase expected to commence later in the summer and […]

  • Kent Joins Spiorad na Mara Offshore Wind Team

    23 April 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Integrated energy services provider, Kent, has been awarded a contract by Spiorad na Mara Limited for the pre-front end engineering design (Pre-FEED) assessment of the proposed Spiorad na Mara offshore wind farm in Scotland. The project, formerly known as N4, will play a significant role in helping Scotland achieve its net zero emissions target by […]