Turkey is looking to open its first offshore wind tender by the end of 2026 and could then see the first wind turbines installed off its coast by 2030-2031, the president of the Turkish Wind Energy Association (TÜREB) told Anadolu Agency. According to the TÜREB President Ibrahim Erden, the Ministry
The Dutch government plans to launch a subsidy-based, 1 GW offshore wind tender in September to ensure its success before the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme, on which the government is working, is implemented from mid-2027. According to the Dutch Minister of Climate Policy and Green Growth, th
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has granted Dominion Energy’s request for a preliminary injunction allowing construction to resume on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project while the company’s lawsuit challenging the stop-work order proceeds. “Our team will now
The US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted a preliminary injunction sought by Equinor for its Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, allowing construction activities to resume on the project that was more than 60 per cent complete at the time when the US government issued a stop-work
A new research project, called WindSCORE, has been launched to develop a comprehensive 360-degree evaluation system for offshore wind projects. According to the WindSCORE partners, the project aims to support more holistic assessment and decision-making across the sector. WindSCORE, which kicked off
All five developers with offshore wind farms under construction in the US are now fighting the suspension order issued by the US Department of the Interior (DOI) in December 2025, as Vineyard Wind, a company owned 50:50 by Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), said on 15 January tha
Hanwha Group’s renewable energy arm in France, Q Energy France, together with Hanwha Ocean, has entered the pre-qualification process to participate in the upcoming offshore wind seabed leasing in Nova Scotia, Canada, the South Korean company said on 14 January. The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energ
The UK government has awarded a record 8.4 GW of offshore wind capacity in the Contracts for Difference Allocation Round 7 (AR7), including two floating wind projects. The biggest winner of the UK’s latest CfD round is RWE, which secured contracts for almost 7 GW of offshore wind projects. RWE has b
The US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted the preliminary injunction sought by the joint venture between Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables for the Revolution Wind project, which was ordered to pause construction by the US government. When the stop-work order was issued on 22 Decembe
Ireland’s Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA) published a Competitive Maritime Area Consent (MAC) Framework to guide the allocation of rights for the development of offshore renewable energy projects. The framework, released on 9 January, complements Ireland’s plan-led approach to offshore ren
New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James has filed two lawsuits against what the AG says is “the Trump administration’s unlawful attempt to halt construction” on Empire Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind, two large-scale offshore wind projects being built in the US federal waters off New York. In the lawsu
The UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has set a new deadline for the decision on the Development Consent Order (DCO) for Dogger Bank South, a 3 GW offshore wind project developed by RWE, which the company owns in partnership with Masdar. The statutory deadline for the decision o
The Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) and the UK government, represented by the British Embassy in Manila, have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to collaborate on offshore wind and microgrid development in the Philippines. The LOI, signed on 16 December 2025, formalises collaboration under the
Ørsted will submit a motion for a preliminary injunction against the recently imposed construction halt for its Sunrise Wind project in the US, the company said on 7 January, several days after announcing the same legal action in relation to Revolution Wind, which the developer is building through a
