Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind has submitted a request to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU), seeking that the existing offshore renewable energy certificate (OREC) order, issued by the NJBPU in 2021 for 1,509.6 MW of generation capacity at Atlantic Shores Project 1, be terminated. The
The Maryland Department of the Environment’s Air and Radiation Administration (ARA) has issued an air quality permit-to-construct, New Source Review (NSR) approval, and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) approval to US Wind for its offshore wind project off Maryland, which received federa
Statutory consultation for the Dogger Bank D offshore wind farm will open on 10 June, as the co-owners of the project, SSE Renewables and Equinor, are working towards applying for development consent. According to information on the UK Planning Inspectorate’s website, the application for a Developme
TGS is conducting a geophysical survey at the site of the Green Volt floating offshore wind project in Scotland, one of the Scottish INTOG round winners and projects planned to provide electricity to oil and gas platforms. The seismic vessel Ramform Vanguard has mobilised from Aberdeen and is schedu
NKT, using its vessel NKT Victoria, is scheduled to start installing the export cable for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK this month. The vessel is expected to mobilise from the port of Karlskrona in Sweden on 14 June and work on the East Anglia Three site 24/7, conducting
The 25 MW Provence Grand Large, the first floating offshore wind farm in France and the wider Mediterranean, has been fully commissioned. The floating offshore wind project is owned by Parc Eolien Offshore de Provence Grand Large – a subsidiary of EDF Renouvelables, Enbridge Eolien France 2 S.à.r.l
The 488 MW Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier (EMYN) offshore wind farm has started supplying green electricity to the French grid, only a few weeks after the installation of the first turbine. Following a successful initial testing phase that began on 23 May, the wind farm’s first Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbi
RWE and Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) have closed a transaction worth approximately EUR 1.4 billion, through which NBIM has acquired a 49 per cent equity stake in RWE’s Thor and Nordseecluster offshore wind projects in Denmark and Germany, respectively. The developer and NBIM, which manag
A new bill that has been introduced in the Delaware Senate could bring US Wind’s plan to build onshore substations for its offshore wind farm(s) in Sussex County back on track. Introduced on 21 May and discussed by the Senate Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee on 2 June, the bill would v
The French government and three offshore wind farms have signed amendments to their power purchase agreements (PPAs), allowing them to halt production during periods of negative electricity prices. The three wind farms that signed PPAs are the 500 MW Fécamp, the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire, and the 496 MW
CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE), using its heavy lift vessel Green Jade, has completed the installation of pin piles on Taiwan’s Hai Long offshore wind project, with jacket foundations for the project’s third phase to be installed next. The 1,022 MW Hai Long comprises two offshore wind farms, spli
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has extended the electricity production permit for the 23 MW Samsø offshore wind farm by ten years, the first such extension for an older offshore wind farm in Denmark. The electricity production permit for the Samsø offshore wind farm, built in 2002, was limited to 25
Poland’s Orlen Group has selected three local companies to explore the geological conditions of the seabed within the Baltic East offshore wind farm concession area in the Baltic Sea. A consortium of three companies, MEWO, Orlen Petrobaltic, and Geofizyka Toruń, will conduct geological engineering,
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has signed an agreement with ACEN, the listed energy company of the Ayala Group, to sell a 25 per cent minority stake in the up to 1 GW San Miguel Bay offshore wind farm in the Philippines. CIP said that the company and its Growth Market Fund II have sought a
