The Canadian Port of Argentia has secured a contract to receive and store wind turbine blades that eventually will be transported and installed at offshore wind farms along the eastern coast of the US. The arrangement with Scan Global Logistics, a global transportation and logistics company headquar
Sweden-based Windeed and ASCO, a provider of logistics and materials management, have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to strengthen their roles in the floating wind sector by improving logistics and operations for floating offshore wind projects. The collaboration will focus on creating a logistics
UK-headquartered CRP Subsea has secured a contract from Norway-based ocean services provider, DeepOcean, to supply cable protection systems for RWE’s Nordseecluster A offshore wind project in the German part of the North Sea. Under this contract, CRP Subsea will supply 96 NjordGuard cable protection
ENEOS Renewable Energy (ERE), the renewable arm of the Japanese energy giant ENEOS Holdings, has become a partner in the GoliatVIND floating offshore wind project in Norway by acquiring a 20 per cent shareholding in the project from Odfjell Oceanwind. This is ERE’s first overseas offshore wind proje
Spain’s X1 Wind has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Dutch company FibreMax to boost performance, innovation, and sustainability in the floating wind energy sector, focusing specifically on tension leg platform (TLP) tendons. X1 Wind’s collaboration with the mooring line manufactu
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a company of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), has launched a tender for the development of a 500 MW offshore wind project off the coast of Gujarat. According to the tender documents, bids must be submitted by 12 December, and pre-bid meet
Principle Power has expanded its WindFloat portfolio by introducing two new semi-submersible floating wind foundation designs, called WindFloat TC and WindFloat FC, which are said to be optimised for 15 MW+ wind turbines. According to the company, the new designs are natural evolutions of the existi
Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) has submitted the offshore scoping report to the Scottish Government’s Marine Directorate Licensing & Operations team for its 1 GW Bowdun offshore wind project. The development follows the announcement last week regarding the submission of the onshore scoping report to Ab
SSE Energy Markets has signed a long-term route-to-market power purchase agreement (PPA) with Inch Cape Offshore Limited, a joint venture between Red Rock Renewables and ESB, to offtake electricity from Scotland’s 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm. SSE Energy Markets will offtake 50 per cent of th
The US Department of Interior (DOI) plans to hold a lease auction on 29 October for eight offshore wind areas in the Gulf of Maine, capable of delivering approximately 13 GW of renewable energy. The area included in the Final Sale Notice (FSN) is about 120,000 acres less than what the Bureau of Ocea
PGE and Ørsted have signed a lease agreement with Istrana sp.z o.o. for the future T5 terminal in the Port of Gdansk that will be used for the storage, pre-assembly, and offshore installation of turbine components for Baltica 2, the first stage of the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm in Poland. The lease
Polenergia and Equinor have signed a contract with Tele-Fonika Kable S.A. (TFKable) for the supply of onshore cables and accessories for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms in Poland. In addition, the companies selected the Dutch firm Visser & Smit Hanab to perform horizontal drilling in t
The European Commission (EC) has approved a EUR 682 million Belgian scheme to back the construction and operation of an offshore wind farm in the North Sea. This approval sets the stage for the auction, planned to be launched on 28 October, for the first 700 MW wind farm in the Princess Elisabeth Zo
More than half of the advanced foundation components for the 924 MW Sunrise Wind offshore wind farm have already been built, as the project gears up for offshore construction in 2025. Ørsted selected Riggs Distler & Company, a union construction solutions firm with offices in Mt. Vernon and Saugerti
