The President of Finland has signed a bill that enables the country to organise its first tender for offshore wind development in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). With the new legislation set to enter into force on 1 January 2025, the government is looking to launch the first offshore wind tender
The Dutch/German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has selected NKT to provide high-voltage direct current (HVDC) on- and offshore power cable systems for two projects that are part of TenneT’s 2 GW programme. The contracts, valued at approximately EUR 1 billion, are set to be completed betw
A pre-installation survey at the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm site is scheduled to begin in early January 2025, following subsea boulder clearance and scour protection work that was carried out in November 2024 and marked the start of offshore construction work. The survey, which will be per
A 300 MW expansion to the existing 600 MW Xuwen offshore wind farm in Zhanjiang, China, developed by State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC), has started commercial operation. The 600 MW Xuwen offshore wind farm was built in two phases consisting of a total of 94 wind turbines. The first of 47 Min
The last components for Eolink’s 5 MW floating offshore wind turbine have arrived at the Port of Brest in France. The first components for the floating offshore wind turbine, which will be installed at the French SEM-REV test site off the coast of Le Croisic, arrived at the port in February this yea
Korea Floating Wind (KF Wind), a floating offshore wind project being developed by Ocean Winds and Mainstream Renewable Power, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the East Marine Energy Fishermen’s Union. KF Wind signed the MoU for mutual cooperation with the five local fisheries’ as
The JERA-led consortium and BP, along with its consortium partners, have been granted exclusive rights to develop two offshore wind farms in Japan’s territorial waters. The awarded sites are part of the country’s 3rd auction round, where a total capacity of 1.1 GW has been granted for development. B
The construction of the Xuwen Dongsan Offshore Wind Power Demonstration Project, developed by a joint venture between Mingyang Smart Energy and Germany’s BASF, has commenced in Zhanjiang, China. This is the first offshore wind power project in China to be approved as a Sino-German cooperation, accor
Equinor has completed the acquisition of a 10 per cent stake in Ørsted, announced this October. The share purchase, which cost Equinor USD 2.3 billion (around EUR 2.2 billion), establishes the Norway-based global energy player as Ørsted’s second-largest shareholder, after the Danish State which hold
Jan De Nul, in partnership with Hellenic Cables, has been awarded a framework agreement from France’s transmission system operator (TSO) Réseau Transport d’Electricité (RTE) to supply and install the export cables for two floating wind farms off the coast of Southern Brittany, totalling 750 MW. Jan
Hitachi Energy has received an order from Ørsted to provide the power electronics technology to integrate 2.4 GW of electricity from the Hornsea 4 offshore wind farm into the UK grid. The order, which is subject to the final investment decision, will see Hitachi Energy supply a grid-forming solution
Iberdrola expects to close the Avangrid transaction today, 23 December, after the Spanish renewable energy company obtained the approval of the New York Public Service Commission to acquire the shares it did not already own in its US subsidiary. Once the transaction closes, Avangrid will become a pr
The US state of Connecticut has decided not to purchase any capacity from offshore wind projects in its most recent renewable energy procurement round. In its latest renewable energy procurement round, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) selected projects totalli
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has approved the SouthCoast Wind Project, which could generate up to 2.4 GW of offshore wind energy for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. With the approval, the Department of Interior (DOI) and BOEM have approved over 19 GW of clean energy from offshore
