DOF Subsea has completed the installation of 19 suction anchors on the 88 MW Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm. The transportation and installation of the suction anchors were carried out by the subsea AHTS vessel Skandi Skansen at the site located about 140 kilometres off the Norwegian coas
As of this month, Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm has been providing system-stabilising balancing power for the German power grid, making it the country’s first offshore wind farm taking up this task. Bringing the electricity from Borkum Riffgrund 1 as balancing energy for the German
Baltic Power plans to carry out a prequalification for tendering covering several equipment supplies and services to support the offshore construction activities on the 1.2 GW Baltic Power wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. The services and equipment shall be provided for the offshore construction
Environmental Resources Management (ERM) has been awarded GBP 8.6 million (EUR 10.1 million) in funding from the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 fund by the UK government for the ERM Dolpyn floating wind-to-hydrogen project. The funding will be used for offshore demonstrat
Ocean Winds has submitted a bid to the Dutch government for the Hollandse Kust West (HKW) Site VI and as such the right to develop around 790 MW of offshore wind capacity. Located 53 kilometres from the coast, the site for a future bottom-fixed offshore wind farm covers an area of approximately 88 s
The 150 GW of offshore wind capacity pledged to be reached by 2050 by Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands under the Esbjerg Declaration, signed yesterday (18 May) at the North Sea Summit, will contribute to large-scale onshore and offshore production of green hydrogen, one of the focal po
The Swedish government has granted a construction permit to Vattenfall for the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm. Located in the south of the Baltic Sea some 30 kilometres off Trelleborg, Kriegers Flak is one of Vattenfall’s Swedish offshore wind projects that has come the furthest in its development
Massachusetts’s Baker-Polito Administration has announced its plans to invest USD 100 million to support offshore wind ports in Salem, New Bedford, and Somerset. Governor Charlie Baker made this announcement on 18 May in Salem at the site of what will be Massachusetts’ second offshore wind port. The
SSE Renewables and Brookfield have agreed an exclusive partnership with the VEMW Wind consortium of 13 large and small Dutch energy users as part of their joint bid for the Hollandse Kust West Site VII offshore the Netherlands. SSE Renewables and Brookfield submitted joint bids for the Hollandse Kus
Vattenfall has been awarded GBP 9.3 million in innovation funding from the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 fund by the UK government for the Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1) project offshore Aberdeen, Scotland. The funding will be used to develop the world’s first hydrogen-produci
POSCO Energy and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on offshore wind and green hydrogen business development. Under the MoU, the two companies will work together on the development of offshore wind projects, cooperate on supply chain
UK-based Fulkrum has secured a contract to support the QA/QC-quality assurance/quality control activities for the first phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm project offshore England. Under the contract, Fulkrum will provide inspection services during the Dogger Bank A development stage, with a
Brazilian oil & gas major Petrobras announced on 18 May that it was evaluating the environmental feasibility of building an offshore wind farm in Aracatu, Brazil, together with Equinor. The partnership on the up to 4 GW project follows the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) the two companies signed i
Read the latest article on the new offshore wind commitments by Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands and the EU’s new REPowerEU strategy: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands are set to reveal a joint offshore wind target of having at least 150 GW of generation capacity installed
