NOTE: The original article was updated following a statement from Mingyang Smart Energy. Mingyang Smart Energy issued a statement on 13 December, following reports that two blades broke off of the company’s 20 MW offshore wind turbine prototype in Hainan, China. The company says the wind turbine was
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kansai) has signed a share purchase agreement with Iberdrola to participate in the 315 MW Windanker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. The operation values 100 per cent of the offshore wind farm at EUR 1.28 billion, which implies a multiple of EUR 4
Invenergy has responded to the Request for Competitive Interest (RFCI) that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) launched this summer for two wind energy areas (WEAs) in the Gulf of Mexico for which the federal agency had received an unsolicited lease request from Hecate Energy. Hecate Energ
Spain’s Windar Renovables has completed the fabrication of the first of 90 offshore towers included in an order from Siemens Gamesa for Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project in the US. The first shipments for the 2.6 GW offshore wind farm are scheduled for the summer of 202
Mingyang Smart Energy’s OceanX, which the company says is the world’s largest single-capacity floating wind power platform, has started operating at the Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm in Yangjiang, China, where it was installed this summer. The dual-turbine, V-shaped floater operates autonomously, s
Enefit Green’s Liivi Bay offshore wind farm has undergone an environmental impact assessment (EIA), showing no significant negative effects on the environment and boosting labour market activity and municipal revenues with proper mitigation measures, according to an expert group from Skepast and Puh
The Nederwiek IB offshore wind site in the Netherlands, which was initially planned to be part of the upcoming tender in 2025, is expected to be added to the 2026 round as the Dutch government assesses the impact a wind farm there could have on accessing a nearby gas transfer platform. A gas project
Ørsted has sold a 50 per cent ownership share in the Greater Changhua 4 offshore wind farm to Taiwanese insurance company Cathay Life Insurance, and its affiliate Cathay Wind Power Holdings, for approximately DKK 11.6 billion (around EUR 1.55 billion). The 583 MW Greater Changhua 4 is part of the 92
The first blades for the Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbines, which will be installed at the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm, have arrived at the port of Saint-Nazaire in France. The roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) vessel Rotra Mare docked in Saint-Nazaire on 5 December, carrying the first turbine b
The OranjeWind joint venture between RWE and TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with Buss Terminal Eemshaven to use the Port of Eemshaven as the base for wind turbine assembly and construction work for the 795 MW offshore wind project in the Dutch North Sea. Buss Terminal Eemshaven will facilitat
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) programme has been approved for the Estonian part of the ELWIND Estonian-Latvian cross-border offshore wind project. The programme outlines the entire process of assessing environmental impacts, including the scope and methodology of studies to be conducted
The 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany will be commissioned in the first quarter of 2026 instead of the initially planned fourth quarter of 2025 due to a delay in the grid connection construction. The cause of the grid connection delay can be traced back to 2020/2021 and the cha
Two-thirds of wind turbines have been installed at the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm in Scotland, which produced its first power in October. According to notices to mariners from the project issued on 20 November and 3 December, 35 wind turbines are up at the project site with three more parti
RWE and the Whitby Lobster Hatchery have released 2,500 juvenile lobsters at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK in what the wind farm developer says is an industry-first project, through which more than 15,000 lobsters are planned to be released at Triton Knoll. The first batch of 2,500 j
