BW Ideol has signed an engineering contract and licence agreement for the EolMed project in France, with the contracts valued at more than EUR 4 million in total. The EolMed project was fully consented in February 2021, BW Ideol writes. The floating wind farm, to be installed in water depths of arou
Fraunhofer IWES has secured a contract to provide geophysical investigation and hydrographic survey services at the N-9.4 offshore wind zone in the German North Sea. The work will be carried out in 2022 as part of the preliminary investigations of the seabed at the zone. The contract was awarded by
The La Gan Wind Power Development Corporation has signed two contracts with Vietnam’s Northern Center for Planning and Investigation of Marine Resources and Environment (CPIM) for the 3.5 GW La Gan offshore wind farm. Under the contracts, CPIM, in cooperation with the Danish geological authority GEU
Ørsted will open its North American Digital Operations Headquarters in Newark, New Jersey, the company announced on 20 May. The new office will support Ørsted’s operations throughout North America for both offshore and onshore wind assets, and will initially see over 20 Ørsted staff, including 12-14
The Fraunhofer IWES is now starting construction work on a third rotor wind turbine blade test bench at its Großer Westring site in Bremerhaven, Germany. Once complete, the bench will be used to test state-of-the-art prototypes measuring 115 metres in length and even more. Some EUR 19 million are se
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the final Clean Air Act Outer Continental Shelf air quality permit to Vineyard Wind 1, LLC, the developer of the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm. The permit includes air pollution control requirements for the construction and operation of the 80
The European Commission has approved Polish offshore wind Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, through which the country plans to support the realisation of offshore wind projects with EUR 22.5 billion and reach its renewable energy targets without unduly distorting competition. The CfD scheme, wh
Spain’s National Securities Market Commission (La Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores; CNMV) lifted the suspension of trading in Siemens Gamesa’s shares at 14:30 on 18 May, following a precautionary suspension imposed that same day. The trading of shares was halted in the morning of 18 May, aft
RWE Renewables and the utility National Grid have signed a partnership agreement to jointly develop offshore wind projects in the coastal region of the Northeast US. Under this agreement, RWE and National Grid Ventures, the non-regulated division of National Grid, will be working together to explore
Vineyard Wind has signed a lease at Barnum Landing in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to use the property as a construction and staging location for the 804 MW Park City Wind project. Vineyard Wind has also selected a location in downtown Bridgeport to serve as the Connecticut headquarters for the company’
A new joint industry project has been launched as part of the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme with an aim to build industry consensus on setting the future standard array voltage for offshore wind farms. The High Voltage Array Systems (Hi-VAS) project aims to understand the costs, benefits
North Falls Offshore Wind Farm has kicked off the first offshore environmental and geophysical surveys on its array site and along potential cable routes offshore the UK. A trio of wind farm survey vessels will be busy in the Southern North Sea for the next three months on this UK extension project,
Ørsted and Eversource have signed a contract with Sea Services North America, whose partner fishermen in the US Northeast region will provide support vessels and monitoring services during construction of the Revolution Wind, South Fork Wind, and Sunrise Wind offshore wind farms. According to the jo
The UK’s Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has launched a funding call with a total of GBP 4.2 million (around EUR 4.8 million) available for UK offshore wind supply chain companies in grant funding and tailored business support. In its largest funding to date, OWGP is releasing GBP 3.5 millio
