OX2 has completed and submitted the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to the relevant authority for the Laine offshore wind farm in the Finnish exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The EIA covers the offshore wind farm, its internal electricity transmission and hydrogen pipeline, offshore power statio
The UK government has announced GBP 300 million (approximately EUR 350 million) of funding through the country’s publicly owned clean energy company, Great British Energy, to invest in domestic offshore wind supply chains. The funding, which was brought forward by the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
The Portuguese government has outlined the framework for the country’s first auction of commercial-scale offshore wind farms, which is expected to take place later this year. Published on 21 April in the Diário da República, the order sets out a centralised sequential model for allocating offshore w
US renewable energy industry organisations and New York state agencies, as well as the Governor, have responded with criticism to the decision of the US Department of the Interior (DOI) to halt construction on Empire Wind 1. The move has been called a “chilling signal” to investors in the US market
Following the order of the US Department of the Interior (DOI) to halt all construction activities on the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she would fight the federal decision. “This fully federally permitted project has already put shovels in the ground befor
The US Department of the Interior (DOI), through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), has paused the building of the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, which is currently under construction in federal waters off New York. According to community and mariner updates issued by the Empire Wind p
The Victorian government will launch an offshore wind auction in September of this year and expects to award contracts by the fourth quarter of 2026. This is according to the Offshore Wind Energy Implementation Statement 4 (IS4), released by Victoria’s Minister for Energy and Resources Lily D’Ambros
The Lithuanian government has approved the proposed changes to the terms of the tender for the country’s second offshore wind farm, for which the tendering process was paused in January so the government could re-evaluate the conditions. The proposed modifications of Lithuania’s second offshore wind
Gazelle Wind Power has received authorisation to use a site off the coast of Aguçadoura, Portugal, for its 2 MW Nau Azul floating wind demonstrator project. The project site previously hosted WindFloat 1, one of Europe’s earliest floating wind pilot projects. The Dublin-based floating wind technolog
The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has notified the European Free Trade Association’s (EFTA) Surveillance Authority (ESA) of the support model for a floating wind project in the Utsira Nord area and expects to open the tender for the area as soon as ESA has approved the model. The tender will be carri
On 7 April, The Crown Estate announced that the plans for a new generation of floating wind farms off the coasts of Wales and South West England moved a step closer as the leasing round for three sites in the Celtic Sea entered its final stages. Additionally, the companies bidding to build the proje
The UK has granted development consent to Rampion 2, the proposed 1.2 GW extension to the 400 MW Rampion offshore wind farm in Sussex. The Development Consent Order (DCO), issued by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on 4 April, will come into force on 28 April. RWE signed a sea
The town and county of Nantucket, Massachusetts, have filed an appeal in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) over its approval of the 2.4 GW SouthCoast Wind offshore wind project. Nantucket alleges that BOEM violated the National
The US Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) has approved Pine Tree Offshore Wind’s request to suspend offtake negotiations for the Gulf of Maine’s first floating offshore wind research array. Pine Tree Offshore Wind, a consortium comprising researchers from the University of Maine, the State of
