France’s Jifmar Offshore Services and Denmark’s World Marine Offshore have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a joint venture to provide offshore wind services to the French market. The new company will deliver vessels to the market as well as turnkey services. The company plans to in
Electric Power Development (J-Power), JERA and Equinor have formed a consortium to together work towards developing offshore wind projects off the Akita Prefecture in Japan. The consortium will see the three companies evaluate and work towards submitting a joint bid in Japan’s first offshore wind au
Dogger Bank Wind Farm and its tier 1 contractors are holding a series of supply chain webinars for the 3.6 GW offshore wind project. The webinars will focus on introducing the Dogger Bank wind farm development and the tier 1 contractors, and will showcase the opportunities the project offers with a
South Tyneside Council has secured almost GBP 500,000 to develop a manufacturing zone for the offshore energy sector. Coming from the UK Government’s Local Growth Fund through the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the funding will be used to support high growth businesses in the advance
Reygar and CrewSmart are collaborating to provide an integrated system for High Speed Transfers’ (HST) crew transfer vessels (CTVs). According to HST COO Christopher Monan, HST has commissioned an integrated system to deliver complete oversight over its fleet and personnel compliance, as well as to
Development of an indigenous green hydrogen industry could generate GBP 320 billion for the UK economy and sustain up to 120,000 jobs by 2050, a new report finds. The Offshore Wind and Hydrogen: Solving the Integration Challenge Report was released by the Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) and th
Australian oil and gas specialist Pilot Energy Limited is starting a feasibility study to pursue the development of an offshore wind project off the coast of the Mid West Region of Western Australia. The wind farm is part of a larger renewable energy project. The Mid West Wind and Solar Project comb
Tech giant Apple will invest in the construction of two MHI Vestas 8.4 MW offshore wind turbines which will be installed onshore near the town of Esbjerg in Denmark. The 200-metre-tall turbines are expected to produce 62 gigawatt-hours of electricity each year. The power produced at Esbjerg will sup
Ideol and Bridon-Bekaert Ropes Group (BBRG) have entered a strategic partnership to develop a new synthetic mooring solution for the floating offshore wind market. According to the parties, the goal is to meet the floating offshore wind market’s cost reduction, capacity and lead-time expectations. “
Crown Estate Scotland is awarding GBP 500,000 for the development of the local offshore wind market. The funds comprise GBP 300,000 for Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SOWEC) projects and GBP 200,000 for environmental research. The awarding of SOWEC funding will be linked to criteria which in
Norfolk County Council (NCC) has secured GBP 6 million of funding to deliver an offshore energy operations and maintenance campus at the Port of Great Yarmouth. The site will be located at the entrance of River Yare and will have closer proximity to the Southern North Sea offshore energy development
Welcon and Century Huaxin Wind Energy (CHWE) have entered into an agreement to cooperate on a turbine tower fabrication facility for offshore wind in Taiwan. Welcon said it will provide its experience and technological know-how to CHWE who will design, build and operate the facility that will serve
SSE has agreed to sell its 25.1% non-operating stake in the 367 MW Walney offshore wind farm to Greencoat UK Wind. The stake equates to 92 MW of capacity and the total consideration is GBP 350 million. The sale marks the first stage in SSE’s plans to dispose of GBP 2 billion of assets by […]
Nordic renewable energy company Cloudberry Clean Energy AS has offered to acquire 100 % of the shares in Scanvind2 AS. Scanvind2 is developing the Rewind Vänern wind power project in the shallow waters of Vänern, the largest lake in Sweden. The current development plan includes 16-17 turbines with a
