The US government has decided to advance areas northwest of Morro Bay and off Humboldt County, California, for offshore wind development. With these two initial areas, the US is opening up the Pacific Coast for first commercial scale offshore wind projects. The two areas could accommodate up to 4.6
Equinor, RWE Renewables, and Hydro REIN have signed a collaboration agreement for offshore wind in Norway. The partners will jointly prepare and submit an application to the Norwegian authorities to develop a large-scale, bottom-fixed offshore wind farm in the Sørlige Nordsjø II area in the Norwegia
Canada’s Northland Power has revealed additional details about the two offshore wind projects for which the company has the step-in rights in the coming auctions in Germany. The two projects, Nordsee 2 and Nordsee 3, will have an allowed grid capacity of approximately 800 MW to 900 MW combined. They
The UK government has awarded Edinburgh-based company Offshore Survival Systems with funding to develop a first of its kind remotely operated offshore search and rescue service. The service involves using a network of semi-autonomous unmanned rescue vessels (URVs) for search and rescue at sea and wi
The Island Crown vessel has started working at the Moray East offshore wind farm site, providing accommodation and walk-to-work (W2W) services during the project construction activities. Island Crown has joined the fleet of vessels deployed on the project after Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd (MO
DNV GL will investigate how to best accommodate biodiversity in offshore wind projects in the Nordic region under a contract the company was recently awarded. Nordic Energy Research, a platform for cooperative energy research and policy development under the auspices of the Nordic Council of Ministe
BP and EnBW have selected RPS as Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and Habitat Regulations Assessment (HRA) lead for the development of the two lease areas the joint venture partners secured this February in the UK Offshore Wind Round 4. “The lease areas have a combined potential capacity of 3
Fugro has received a contract renewal from Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind for the provision of real-time wind and metocean measurements off the coast of New Jersey in the US over the next two years. The award is the latest in a set of three contract renewals between Fugro and Atlantic Shores based on
Britain’s energy regulators are putting billions of pounds of green infrastructure investment at risk by overseeing an energy market which favours EU energy imports at the expense of home-grown schemes, new research has shown. Electricity generators in the UK pay transmission charges for the cost of
GE has unveiled a 12 MW floating wind turbine concept featuring the company’s Haliade-X model with a 12 MW output and tension-leg platform technology from Glosten. The concept has been developed within the two-year project for which GE Research was awarded USD 4 million in 2019 through the ARPA-E’s
Iberdrola and Vestas have signed a contract for the supply of 50 units of Vestas’s V174-9.5 MW wind turbine model for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The contract follows the selection of Vestas (MHI Vestas) as the preferred supplier for the project in 2019 and is accompanied with a
Turbine installation at the Windpark Fryslân will last longer than initially expected, the developer of the nearshore wind farm in the IJsselmeer Lake in the Netherlands said. The installation of the wind farm’s 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW started this spring and was initially expected to be completed
Norseman Wind has announced its decision to apply for a licence to build a 1.4 GW wind farm off Norway. In a press release issued on 25 May, the company said the project would be built and operated without the need for government subsidies. Furthermore, German offshore wind developer EnBW has joined
The French transmission system operator Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) has awarded James Fisher Renewables with a contract for unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey along the export cable routes for the Fécamp offshore wind farm. Under the contract, the company’s subsidiary Mojo Maritime France
