Swedish multinational offshore wind developer, Vattenfall, which committed to a landfill ban on decommissioned wind turbine blades from the wind farms it owns back in 2021, has expanded the ban and set a recycling plan to include not only turbine blades but also permanent magnets, nacelle canopies a
ScottishPower Renewables has awarded Sif and Smulders a contract to supply 64 monopile foundation and transition pieces (TPs) for the 960 MW East Anglia Two offshore wind farm in the UK. ScottishPower Renewables, Iberdrola’s UK arm, signed the contracts with Sif Netherlands for supplying 64 monopile
Colombia’s Ministry of Mining and Energy has published a list of nine companies that have submitted documents to qualify for the country’s first offshore wind tender as this first stage of the process concluded on 28 October. The final list of companies that will be eligible to bid in the first half
Vestas has signed a multi-year service contract with Purus to utilise the company’s commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) newbuild which is currently under construction at Vard’s shipyard in Norway. The contract with the Danish wind turbine manufacturer will commence immediately after the ve
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the coordinated development of offshore wind on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The agreement calls for DOD and BOEM to find mutual solutions that supp
Global investment firm Brookfield has bought minority stakes in four UK offshore wind farms owned and operated by Ørsted for around GBP 1.75 billion (approximately EUR 2.1 billion). The buy-in, which Brookfield is pursuing through Brookfield Infrastructure Fund V, will see the investment firm acquir
Ørsted has awarded Seaway7, part of the Subsea7 Group, a contract for the transport and installation (T&I) of the inter-array cables at the Hornsea 3 offshore wind project in the UK. Seaway7’s scope of work covers the transportation and installation of 192 66 kV inter-array cables, measuring approxi
Avangrid and Invenergy have each secured two lease areas in the Gulf of Maine auction, where total bids exceeded USD 21.9 million (approximately EUR 20 million), marking the first lease sale in the region and the first for floating offshore wind on the US Atlantic coast. The US Bureau of Ocean Energ
Brazil’s oil and gas major, Petrobras, will deploy five new units of a Brazil-made floating LiDAR for wind measurements off the country’s coasts starting this December. The company will invest BRL 60 million (approximately EUR 9.6 million) in the new measurement campaign which follows a one-year dep
The Maltese government is expected to soon publish a pre-qualification questionnaire for parties interested in floating wind development in the country. This is according to a consultation document issued this September, prior to the country’s Budget 2025 that was announced on 28 October. As reporte
RWE, together with its partners, has launched the Sustainable ecosystem approach in Monitoring the marine environment (SeaMe) project at its Kaskasi offshore wind farm off the German coast. The three-year project will be carried out in collaboration with the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine
Patriot Offshore Maritime Services, a subsidiary of Liberty Green Logistics based in Lake Success, New York, has been awarded a ten-year crew transfer vessel (CTV) services contract for work on Equinor’s Empire Wind offshore wind farm in the US. The Jones Act-qualified CTV will be constructed in a U
French transmission system operator (TSO) RTE is conducting market consultation as it is preparing to launch a tender for the long-term supply of underground and subsea 320 kV and 525 kV HVDC cable links for French offshore wind farms that will be commissioned from 2034. In a notice issued on 25 Oct
South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) has opened a tender for 2.8 GW of wind and solar energy capacity, 1.5 GW of which is being sought through offshore wind. On 25 October, Korea’s Energy Agency’s Renewable Energy Center issued an invitation to tender which seeks to award 1 G
