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  • Equinor Secures Development Consent for UK Offshore Wind Extension Projects

    18 April 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The UK Secretary of State for the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero has granted development consent to Equinor’s Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Extension Projects off the North Norfolk coast. The projects are extensions to the operational Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farms, which currently power around 710,000 UK homes. The consent enables […]

  • First Siemens Gamesa 14.7 MW Turbine Stands at Moray West Offshore Wind Farm

    22 April 2024

    Moray West, an offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, Scotland, has installed the first of 60 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines. Supplied with “Power Boost”, each turbine can generate up to 14.7 MW output. The 882 MW wind farm is being developed by Ocean Winds. The pre-assembly activity of the 60 […]

  • Hyundai Heavy Sets Sights on Scottish Floating Offshore Wind

    18 April 2024
    Collaboration, Floating Wind, Industry, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Supply Chain, Transition

    Major South Korean shipbuilder, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with two Scottish enterprise agencies which is expected to unlock expertise in the design and manufacture of floating offshore wind substructures. Scottish Enterprise (SE) and Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) signed the MoU with Hyundai Heavy in Edinburgh, described as a […]

  • UK Industry Bodies Release Offshore Wind Industrial Growth Plan

    19 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Industry, Infrastructure, Jobs & Recruitment, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, R&D, Supply Chain, Transition

    RenewableUK, the Offshore Wind Industry Council, The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland have published an Industrial Growth Plan, setting out how to triple offshore wind manufacturing capacity over the next ten years in the UK. The UK offshore wind industry already employs 32,000 people and each new large offshore wind farm adds GBP 2-3 […]

  • RWE Wins Key Permit for 495 MW South Korean Offshore Wind Project

    4 April 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    RWE has been awarded a 495 MW Electricity Business License (EBL) by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy of South Korea to develop the Seohae offshore wind project, off the coast of Taean County. The license grants RWE its first exclusive development rights for offshore wind in South Korea since the company opened an […]

  • Edda Wind Takes Delivery of SOV Newbuild, Destined for Saint-Brieuc Offshore Wind Farm

    3 April 2024
    Vessels

    Offshore wind service vessel company, Edda Wind, has taken delivery of a newly built service operation vessel (SOV) from Spain’s Astilleros Balenciaga. The SOV C416, later to be renamed Edda Goelo, was delivered to Edda Wind on 26 March. C416 is of Salt 0358 design and the sister vessel of Edda Brint, delivered from Astilleros Balenciaga shipyard in […]

  • ORE Catapult and Vattenfall Extend Test Facility Agreement in Scotland

    2 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Vattenfall have signed a three-year extension on their testing and demonstration collaboration at the 96.8 MW Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, also known as the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Scotland. The partnership at the 96.8MW offshore wind test and demonstration facility first began in 2019. Since then, technologies that […]

  • OX2 and IKEA Owner Receive Permit for 5.5 GW Swedish Offshore Wind Farm

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

    The County Administrative Board of Gotland has granted a Natura 2000 permit for the 5.5 GW Aurora offshore wind farm in Sweden, being developed by OX2 and the investment arm of IKEA parent, Ingka Group. When granting the project Natura 2000 permit, the County Administrative Board agrees with other authorities that the wind farm can […]

  • Sulmara Secures Geo Work at 1 GW Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Project

    19 March 2024
    Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    Stromar, a joint venture between Ørsted, BlueFloat Energy, and Renantis, has awarded Sulmara a contract to conduct site characterisation work at the 1 GW floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. For this work, Sulmara will utilise the 60-metre multi-purpose subsea vessel Vos Gorgeous to carry out a geophysical investigation across the proposed wind farm site […]

  • US to Hold Second Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Lease Sale

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

    The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has proposed a second offshore wind energy lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, with four areas offshore Louisiana and Texas to be auctioned off. On 20 March, the DOI and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will publish the proposed sale notice (PSN) in the Federal […]

  • Dutch Government: Several Bids In for IJmuiden Ver, 85 Pct of Tender Points Concern Qualitative Criteria

    29 March 2024
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has received several applications in the 4 GW IJmuiden Ver Alpha and Beta offshore wind tender, according to the government agency which closed the application period at 5 p.m. (CET) on 28 March. RVO will now assess the applications in collaboration with two expert committees and expects to announce the […]

  • Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Unveils Liquid Hydrogen SOV Concept

    19 March 2024
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Vessels

    France-headquartered Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has introduced a concept for a service operations vessel (SOV) that utilises liquid hydrogen as its primary fuel source. The liquid-hydrogen SOV, currently in the concept design phase, will be able to operate 95 per cent of the time with zero carbon emission, with the vessel only releasing water during […]

  • EU Greenlights RWE, Mitsui, and Osaka Gas Offshore Wind Joint Venture

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

    The European Commission has cleared, under the EU Merger Regulation, the creation of a joint venture between Mitsui & Co., Osaka Gas, and a subsidiary of RWE AG, all three established in Japan, to develop a 684 MW offshore wind project in Japan. The Commission concluded that the notified transaction would not raise competition concerns, […]

  • Corio Enters Offshore Wind Partnership with Vietnam’s State-Owned Power Company

    11 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Fixed-Bottom

    Corio Generation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Power Generation Joint Stock Corporation 3 (EVNGENCO3), a subsidiary of Vietnam Electricity (EVN), to collaborate in preparing long-term strategies for offshore wind project development. The MOU between Corio, a portfolio company of Macquarie Asset Management, and the subsidiary of Vietnam’s largest state-owned power company, is […]

  • Japan Expands Offshore Wind Development into Exclusive Economic Zone

    13 March 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The Japanese Government has passed an amendment to the “Act on Promoting the Utilization of Sea Areas”, expanding the area for setting up offshore wind to the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The Japanese government aims to deploy 10 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 30-45 GW by 2040, including floating wind, as part […]

  • Vattenfall Scraps Hydrogen Turbine Pilot Project

    14 March 2024
    Business development, Green Hydrogen, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has decided to cancel the Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1) project offshore Aberdeen, Scotland, almost two years after the firm began developing it. However, the project helped enable the creation of a regulatory and consenting regime for offshore hydrogen transportation and storage in the UK, according to the Swedish company. The HT1 project was designed […]

  • Ørsted Secures Exclusive Access to Lower-Emission Steel from Dillinger

    13 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business development, Contracts & Tenders, Manufacturing, Research & Development, Supply Chain

    Ørsted will be offered the first production of lower-emission steel from German-based Dillinger, subject to availability and commercial terms and conditions. The steel plates are intended to be used for offshore wind monopile foundations in future projects. Under a large-scale supply agreement entered into in 2022, Ørsted will procure significant volumes of regular heavy plate […]

  • ‘World’s First Floating Wind Innovation Centre’ Opens in Scotland

    19 March 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Floating Wind, Innovation, Technology

    Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has opened the National Floating Wind Innovation Centre (FLOWIC), which is said to be the world’s first dedicated innovation centre for floating offshore wind, in Aberdeen, Scotland. The GBP 9 million (approximately EUR 10.5 million) FLOWIC, located in Aberdeen’s Energy Transition Zone and delivered by ORE Catapult in collaboration with […]

  • 4Subsea Studying Digital Twin Cost-Reduction Potential in Offshore Wind

    1 May 2020
    R&D

    4Subsea has installed retrofit sensors on the Unitech Zefyros floating offshore wind turbine in Norway, with an aim to analyze cost reduction potential with a digital twin. The goal of the project is to prove significant cost reduction potential in offshore wind by using a digital twin of the substructure to measure actual loads and […]

  • UK Set to Provide Record GBP 800 Million Support for Offshore Wind Projects

    7 March 2024
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The UK government has revealed the budget of over GBP 1 billion (approximately EUR 1.2 billion) for this year’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 6 (AR6) with the majority of it, GBP 800 million (around EUR 936 million), earmarked for offshore wind. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) confirmed that over […]

  • Unitech Offshore Wins TetraSpar Floater Contract

    7 November 2019
    Grid Connection

    Unitech Offshore has secured a contract to provide dynamic power cable and grid connection for the TetraSpar demonstration project in Norway. Unitech said it had been working together with the project partners and investors under an Early Work Agreement up to the signing of the main contract at the end of October. The FWT Zefyros, […]

  • Australia Declares Third Offshore Wind Zone, Initial Area Size Reduced

    6 March 2024
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    The Australian federal government has declared an area in the Southern Ocean off western Victoria as the country’s third offshore wind development zone, though with a considerable reduction in both size and power generation capacity. The final area is located at least 15-20 kilometres from Victoria’s coast and covers 1,030 square kilometres, one-fifth of the […]

  • Norway’s METCentre Gets Green Light to Test More Floating Wind Turbines

    8 December 2023
    Business development, Floating Wind, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    The Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) in Norway has been granted final approval for new test concessions for floating offshore wind. METCentre was given the green light for five new wind turbines offshore Norway. The Norwegian test centre is developing new infrastructure to be ready in 2026. In total, seven turbines will be tested in […]

  • World’s First Floating Wind Turbine Finds New Calling

    8 January 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    Equinor has entered into an agreement with Unitech Offshore for the takeover of its Hywind Demo floating wind turbine in Norway. The turbine will be renamed to UNITECH Zefyros at Hywind Technology from 1 February and will be used as an infrastructure for research and technology projects in Metcentre at Karmøy. In its next phase, the floating turbine will […]

  • Highlights of the Month – January 2019

    1 February 2019

    Record-breaking turbines, new offshore wind tenders… read the ten most read news on offshoreWIND.biz in the first month of 2019. Siemens Gamesa Launches 10+ MW Offshore Wind Turbine Siemens Gamesa has launched the SG 10.0-193 DD, the company’s first 10+ MW offshore wind turbine. The prototype is expected to be installed this year, with commercial market […]

  • Multifunctional Floating Offshore Wind Farm Support Vessel Design Gets ClassNK Nod

    28 February 2024
    Business development, Research & Development, Vessels

    K Line Wind Service, together with Japan Marine United Corporation and Nihon Shipyard, has been jointly granted Approval in Principle (AiP) from Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) for the design concept of the multifunctional floating offshore wind farm support vessel (MFSV). The MFSV is designed to perform whole mooring works efficiently for floating offshore wind turbine […]