The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review and will hold a wind energy auction for two lease areas offshore North Carolina and South Carolina on 11 May. The lease areas include 110,091 acres in the Carolina Long Bay. If developed, they could result in at leas
SSE Renewables plans to commission the Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 in 2028 and not in 2025 as initially planned as the developer confirmed that it plans to apply for a Maritime Area Consent (MAC) for the project under Ireland’s new consenting regime. The decision by SSE Renewables to transfer Phas
The Norwegian Government has proposed the sites in the Utsira Nord lease area to be allocated based on qualitative criteria, rather than through an auction. The area is one of the two Norway will soon offer to developers and has been deemed most suitable for floating wind technology. The qualitative
Dan McKee, the Governor of the US State of Rhode Island, has introduced legislation that would require a market-competitive procurement for approximately 600 MW of newly-developed offshore wind capacity. If enacted, Rhode Island’s primary utility company would be required to issue the procurement no
Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy will start consultations with potential developers of the country’s first offshore wind farm in March. Consultations will take place in preparation for the auction for the development of the 700 MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, with meetings with potential inve
Australian Government has launched public consultation on draft regulations for the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (OEI) framework, which will enable the development of offshore electricity infrastructure, including offshore wind and electricity transmission projects, in Commonwealth waters. T
Irish Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan TD, has invited applications from the first batch of offshore wind projects for Maritime Area Consents (MACs), the first of which are expected to be issued in the second half on this year. The invited projects include seven d
The Dutch government has designated three new areas and has confirmed two previously designated areas in the North Sea for the development of offshore wind farms with a combined capacity of 10.7 GW. With the new areas, the Netherlands is doubling the total planned capacity for offshore wind energy t
Rhode Island’s Port of Davisville and the South Quay Marine Terminal in the City of East Providence will receive USD 60 million and USD 35 million, respectively, for infrastructure upgrades to support offshore wind activities on the US east coast. At the beginning of this year, State Governor Dan Mc
The Latvian government has rejected the application by Ørsted for an area in Latvian waters for the potential development of offshore wind, citing the need to find a suitable location for ELWIND, a joint national development between Latvia and Estonia, as the reason for the rejection. Last year, Ørs
Portugal plans to organise an auction for floating offshore wind this Summer, according to Reuters, which reports that between 3 GW and 4 GW are planned to be auctioned in the country’s Atlantic Ocean waters. The procured projects are expected to enter operation in 2026, Reuters says Portugal’s Envi
Ørsted and BP have submitted position statements to the UK Planning Inspectorate with regard to their offshore wind and carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) projects in the UK, with Ørsted saying BP is trying to force exclusion so that the offshore wind developer cannot locate its Hornsea Four t
Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started reviewing Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) for nine offshore wind projects totaling 9.1 GW in capacity, with more than half of the nine projects led by European developers. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our si
France has launched the competitive tendering procedure for the development of two 250 MW floating offshore wind farms in the Mediterranean Sea. The winners of these competitive bidding procedures will be selected in 2023 and the two wind farms are expected to be commissioned by 2030. The two wind f
