Switzerland-headquartered Holcim has taken a minority equity ownership in the floating offshore wind technology developer BW Ideol. “This investment sends a powerful message to the floating offshore wind industry, confirming the maturity and deliverability of concrete foundation solutions. With Holc
Ørsted will submit a motion for a preliminary injunction against the recently imposed construction halt for its Sunrise Wind project in the US, the company said on 7 January, several days after announcing the same legal action in relation to Revolution Wind, which the developer is building through a
Danish electrical engineering specialist ProCon Group and Norwegian company Hyndla have completed an all-share merger to form an integrated electrical solutions provider targeting the offshore wind industry, IWS Services, the 75-per-cent-owner of ProCon said on 5 January. The combined business wil
Acta Marine has taken delivery of Acta Pegasus, its fourth walk-to-work (W2W) vessel and the first of the four new construction service operation vessels (CSOVs) being built for the company at Tersan Shipyard in Turkey. The vessel is currently undergoing mobilisation for its first deployment on an o
ABS has issued an Approval in Principle (AIP) to Seatrium for the company’s offshore substation (OSS) design, described as a next-generation offshore HVAC platform engineered for scalability. Seatrium has built several offshore converter platforms for offshore wind farms and grid connections over th
Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta (FST), a company owned by Corio Generation that was developing the 450 MW Sceirde Rocks offshore wind project in Ireland, withdrew the consent application for the wind farm on 17 December 2025, according to a notice issued by Ireland’s national planning body, An Coimiúsin
ZPMC (Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited) has started the construction of the first of two service operation vessels (SOVs) for the French shipping group Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LD Armateurs), which will serve Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms in Germany. LD Armateurs ordered the vess
The Goto floating wind farm, Japan’s first commercial floating offshore wind farm, entered full operation on 5 January 2026, according to the consortium behind the project consisting of Toda Corporation, ENEOS Renewable Energy Corporation, Osaka Gas, INPEX Corporation, Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEP
Equinor has filed a civil suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the order that suspended construction on five offshore wind projects, including its Empire Wind 1, which is now more than 60 per cent complete. As part of the case, Empire Offshore Wind LLC, an Equinor subsi
On New Year’s Day, Revolution Wind LLC, the 50/50 joint venture between Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables, filed a supplemental complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia and plans to move for a preliminary injunction to block the lease suspension order recently imposed by the US go
In offshoreWIND.biz‘s 2024 annual wind turbine overview, you could have read about the first 16 MW floating wind platform installed offshore and a 26 MW prototype under construction, both in China, and a 21 MW prototype being assembled in Europe. Wind turbine generator (WTG) technology did not stop
OffshoreWIND.biz has millions of views per year and hundreds of thousands per month. In 2025, some stories received significantly bigger attention than others, and in this overview, we are bringing the ten most popular news in the now-past year. In August, only days after Ørsted reported that Revolu
Ørsted has completed the divestment of a 50 per cent stake in the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm to Apollo-managed funds, the company said on 30 December, following the announcement of the sale in November and the closing of the transaction. Last month, the companies announced that they had ent
The output of the 495 MW Formosa 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan has been fully subscribed, according to its developer Synera Renewable Energy (SRE) Group, which signed three corporate power purchase agreements (CPPAs) this month. “With this milestone, the ready-to-build Formosa 4 now calls for suppo
