The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has launched the state’s fifth offshore wind solicitation, with proposals due by 9 September. The offshore wind solicitation includes provisions such as inflation indexing, labor provisions, stakeholder engagement requirements, a
On 17 July, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the start of construction of Sunrise Wind, the state’s largest offshore wind project, developed by Ørsted. The groundbreaking at the Boys and Girls Club of Bellport on Long Island officially kicked off the start of the 924 MW Sunrise Wind project
Brazil holds a technical offshore wind potential of over 1,200 GW and – with offshore wind strategy and policies, permitting regulations, grid and port upgrades in place – could install as much as 96 GW of generation capacity by 2050, according to a study released by the World Bank Group. The study,
EDF Renewables and Repsol have signed an exclusivity agreement to collaborate on future offshore wind tenders in Spain and Portugal. According to the press release, this collaboration combines Repsol’s commitment to multi-energy growth and its knowledge of the Spanish and Portuguese markets with EDF
NIRAS has been selected by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to prepare pre-feasibility studies to assess the expansion of several ports for use as offshore wind ports. The Denmark-headquartered consultancy company has been commissioned by ADB on behalf of the Philippine government. Under the contrac
Macquarie Asset Management has unveiled its plans to take full control of the Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farms in the UK by acquiring the remaining stake currently controlled by BlackRock. Macquarie GIG Renewable Energy Fund 1 acquired a 60.75 per cent stake in Lynn and Inner Dowsing in 20
NOTE: The article was updated on 17 July with more information about the offshore wind project proposed by Corio Generation. A total of twelve offshore wind projects have now been granted feasibility licenses for the Gippsland Offshore Wind Zone, enabling a potential generation capacity of 25 GW, ac
Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture between RWE and National Grid Ventures, has selected Fugro to perform a geotechnical investigation of their lease area in the New York Bight. With 3 GW of offshore wind energy potential, the developed lease area could power more than one million homes in the
Following a blade damage incident that took place on 13 July at its 800 MW offshore wind project in Massachusetts, Vineyard Wind has revealed that it is mobilising debris recovery teams on Nantucket. Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Iberdrola’s US subsidiary Avangrid and Denmark’s Copenhagen I
The consortium of Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables has been awarded a contract to deliver 21 monopiles for Iberdrola’s Windanker offshore wind farm in Germany. The transition pieces (TPs) for the Windanker foundations will be delivered by Windar under a contract the Spanish manufacturer sig
The four German transmission system operators (TSOs), 50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT, and TransnetBW, and transmission system suppliers Siemens Energy, GE Vernova, and Hitachi Energy, have entered into a partnership to develop direct current (DC) multiterminal hubs that are said to enable an efficient uti
Two Dutch companies operating in the food and agro industries, Plukon and De Heus, have decided to buy electricity from Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell, Eneco, and Chubu, that owns the offshore wind farm which will be built at Hollandse Kust West (HKW) Site VI in the Netherlands. Rabobank’s new g
Equinor has obtained approval of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Bandibuli floating offshore wind project off the coast of Ulsan, South Korea. The EIA approval now allows the Bandibuli project to participate in the fixed-price contract auction for wind power projects. ”With the suc
NOTE: The article was updated on 19 July with more information about the GE Vernova turbine blade incident at the Vineyard Wind project. A turbine blade at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the US has been damaged, leading to an investigation by the blade’s manufacturer, GE Vernova. Vineyard
