Ørsted UK, Falck Renewables, and BlueFloat Energy have expressed their support for the bid to give Scottish Green Freeport status to the Cromarty Firth. The three companies, which have secured seabed leases in the recent ScotWind round, have become members of Opportunity Cromarty Firth (OCF), the pa
The offshore substation topside for Dogger Bank A, the first of the three 1.2 GW phases of the UK’s Dogger Bank Wind Farm, has been completed at Aibel’s yard in Thailand and is now on its way to Haugesund, Norway, where it will undergo further work. The topside is expected to arrive at the yard [&he
EDF Renewables has carried out what is believed to be the first autonomous wind farm foundation inspection by deploying a customised remotely operated vehicle (ROV) at the Blyth offshore wind farm in the UK. Equipped and operated from the Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA) Hub, the
Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola, has entered into a Host Community Agreement (HCA) with the Town of Barnstable for the 804 MW Park City Wind offshore wind farm in the US. Under the agreement, Avangrid Renewables will pay the town USD 16 million (approximately EUR 15 million) a
There should be no limiting criteria for the producers and buyers of green hydrogen on the use of electricity to produce it, RWE said in a comment on a proposed delegated act in the EU which would permit only electricity from newly built, unsubsidised wind and solar energy farms to generate green hy
Tokyo-based PowerX, Inc. has raised approximately JPY 4.15 billion (around EUR 31 million) in the first half of Series A funding to finance the establishment of the battery assembly facility “Power Base” and energy storage solutions (ESS) R&D efforts. The financing round was co-led by Spiral Capital
BW Ideol has signed an agreement with the consortium made of EDF Renouvelables and Maple Power to cooperate on the design of floating foundations for the AO6 floating offshore wind tender in the French Mediterranean. This call for tender relates to two sites with a capacity of 250 MW each. Combined,
The Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE) has called for faster permitting processes for onshore and offshore wind projects in Spain, in light of the latest plan under the REPowerEU strategy to increase the renewable energy target from 40 to 45 per cent by 2030 and WindEurope’s warning that greater
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has unveiled plans to build an artificial island dedicated to large-scale production of green hydrogen from offshore wind in Denmark and has entered an agreement with Allianz Investment Management (AIM) to perform a feasibility study for a similar project in
The UK government has opened the GBP 160 million Floating Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Scheme (FLOWMIS) for expressions of interest. Announced in November 2021, the investment scheme will provide government funding to boost floating offshore wind capability around the UK at sites in Scotla
Spanish energy company Iberdrola has held a ceremony to mark the construction of the second Operations and Maintenance (O&M) building in the port of Sassnitz-Mukran for the Baltic Eagle and Windanker offshore wind farms. The O&M building is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. The two offsho
Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy have submitted an application for a maritime concession for a site off the northeastern coast of Sardinia, where the two companies plan to build a 975 MW floating wind farm, called Tibula Energia. The companies, which formed a partnership to develop floating win
Swedish wind farm developer OX2 and Finland’s Ålandsbanken Fondbolag Ab have extended and deepened their existing offshore wind cooperation agreement with another multi-gigawatt project off the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea. OX2 and Ålandsbanken Fondbolag Ab, an investment management firm managing
At the end of this month, offshore surveys will start at two wind farm sites off Ireland: Arklow Bank and North Irish Sea Array. For the Arklow Bank project, DEME’s Neptune will be deployed off the Wicklow coast for a geotechnical survey that will be taking place until the end of August, subject to
