The Swedish government has rejected 13 applications to build offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea due to defense concerns while approving one project on the west coast, being developed by a joint venture between Vattenfall and Zephyr. On 4 November, the Swedish government announced that 13 submitte
TechnipFMC and Prysmian have signed a collaboration agreement to combine their technologies and expertise and deliver what the two companies say is a complete water column solution for floating wind projects. The solution encompasses mooring and anchoring and both dynamic inter-array and export cabl
Norway’s Deep Wind Offshore has submitted an application for an area lease to develop one floating and one fixed-bottom offshore wind project along the Chilean coastline. The Chilean government has set a target of 60 per cent of the country’s electricity to be generated from renewable sources by 203
A floating wind foundation developed by Fred. Olsen 1848 has secured DNV Basic Design Certification after completing its basic design phase in accordance with DNV’s recently updated certification scheme for floating wind, DNV-SE-0422. According to the company, the foundation, dubbed BRUNEL, is one o
Several new components for the wind turbines destined for the Les Eoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating offshore wind farm have arrived at the wind terminal in Port-La Nouvelle, France. The towers and nacelles for the floating wind project’s Vestas V164-10.0 MW wind turbines have bee
Colombia’s Ministry of Mining and Energy has published a list of nine companies that have submitted documents to qualify for the country’s first offshore wind tender as this first stage of the process concluded on 28 October. The final list of companies that will be eligible to bid in the first half
Avangrid and Invenergy have each secured two lease areas in the Gulf of Maine auction, where total bids exceeded USD 21.9 million (approximately EUR 20 million), marking the first lease sale in the region and the first for floating offshore wind on the US Atlantic coast. The US Bureau of Ocean Energ
Brazil’s oil and gas major, Petrobras, will deploy five new units of a Brazil-made floating LiDAR for wind measurements off the country’s coasts starting this December. The company will invest BRL 60 million (approximately EUR 9.6 million) in the new measurement campaign which follows a one-year dep
The Maltese government is expected to soon publish a pre-qualification questionnaire for parties interested in floating wind development in the country. This is according to a consultation document issued this September, prior to the country’s Budget 2025 that was announced on 28 October. As reporte
South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) has opened a tender for 2.8 GW of wind and solar energy capacity, 1.5 GW of which is being sought through offshore wind. On 25 October, Korea’s Energy Agency’s Renewable Energy Center issued an invitation to tender which seeks to award 1 G
At a North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) Ministerial Meeting held on 24 October in Odense, Denmark, the energy ministers of nine North Sea countries signed a new declaration which, among other things, calls for a digital transparency tool for offshore wind tenders and supply chain capacities. NSEC
In a little more than five years, renewable energy targets set for 2030 will come knocking on the door. Whether they will be reached, missed or overshot, depends on multiple factors, most of which concern policymakers and the energy sector itself. At the end of 2023, the EU increased the binding ren
Stiesdal Offshore and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have entered into a partnership to drive innovation and cost efficiency in floating offshore wind. According to the companies, the partners will work to establish Stiesdal Offshore as a long-term leader in the floating wind industry. As
PetroGreen Energy Corporation (PGEC) and Copenhagen Energy (CE)’s floating offshore wind projects in the Philippines have been awarded the Green Lane Certificate by the Philippine Board of Investments (BOI). According to CE, the certification is designed to streamline the process of securing future
