RWE has announced its participation in the ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland. While the company did not specify the technology it plans to use, it did highlight its involvement in new floating wind projects worldwide in relation to the new projects to be built off the Scottish coasts. “As pa
Vineyard Wind and the Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council have signed a project labour agreement (PLA) for the 800 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm. “The historic signing of the nation’s first PLA for the offshore wind industry and the Vineyard Wind project are critical to our ef
Aker Solutions has reported that the company won an EPCI contract for an offshore HVDC converter platform as part of a consortium that was awarded and EPCI contract for a HVDC transmission system for a large offshore wind project. The company did not name its customer, consortium, or the offshore wi
Cerulean Winds has signed an agreement with px Group to support onshore green hydrogen plants and associated industrial infrastructure at sites in Scotland and England as part of its 200-turbine floating wind-to-hydrogen project in the North Sea. The UK operator of large-scale industrial facilities
The following article is a guest post by Will Sheard, Director, Due Diligence & Analysis, K2 Management, discussing the ScotWind seabed leasing round in Scotland, for which the application period closed last week and which saw multiple companies and consortia filing their bids. The conclusion of Cro
Germany will not install a single offshore wind turbine in 2021, marking no expansion in offshore wind capacity in a calendar year for the first time in more than ten years, the country’s wind organisations said. This expansion gap is not the expression of a lack of interest on the part of investors
Russian oil & gas company Zarubezhneft and DEME Concessions Wind have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop a 1 GW Vinh Phong wind farm offshore Vietnam. The consortium plans to commission the project’s first phase with 600 MW capacity by 2026 and the second phase with 400 MW capac
Japanese classification society ClassNK and the Carbon Trust have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the progress of offshore wind power generation in Japan. This agreement will enable ClassNK and the Carbon Trust to collaborate on assisting national initiatives to improve progres
Germany-headquartered EEW Special Pipe Constructions (SPC) has sold the facility of EEW Offshore Structures Britain (OSB) in Teesside, UK, to Wilton Engineering, a neighbour of EEW OSB. EEW officially handed over the site to Wilton on 15 July. Since the start of production in 2015, EEW OSB has compl
Arthur Kill Terminal LLC has entered into an agreement with certain funds managed by Apollo Funds for the exclusive right to invest in the Arthur Kill Terminal project, an offshore wind energy staging and assembly port under development in Staten Island, New York. New York-based Atlantic Offshore Te
SOCAR and Technip Energies have signed a cooperation agreement which, among other things, will see the two companies working on a joint pilot project for powering upstream operations in Azerbaijan’s sector of the Caspian Sea with electricity produced by a floating wind turbine. If the project moves
Thai energy company Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited (GPSC) has agreed to acquire a 25 per cent stake in the 589 MW Changfang and Xidao wind farm offshore Taiwan. Global Renewable Power Company Limited (GRSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of GPSC, entered into an agreement with Copenhagen In
BP and EnBW have launched a dedicated supplier portal for the two offshore wind projects they won the lease rights for in the UK Round 4 leasing, now named Morgan and Mona, and have invited UK-based suppliers to sign up. The two companies are especially encouraging those UK-based suppliers that have
Italy’s Saipem has finalized the closing of the agreement to acquire the floating offshore wind business of France’s Naval Energies. Saipem and Naval Energies, a subsidiary of France’s Naval Group, signed an agreement for the acquisition in early June. The two parties have now communicated that all
