X90 6 MW pre-commercial floating wind platform, which is part of the NextFloat project, has been granted the Statement of Feasibility from the classification society DNV. NextFloat project is aimed at accelerating the rollout of the next generation of floating wind technology for a competitive, more
Semco Maritime is expecting the first floating offshore substation to happen by 2030, however, there are still some challenges to overcome before this becomes a reality, according to Jacob Øbo Sørensen, Senior Vice President for Renewables at the Danish company. Semco Maritime, together with ISC Con
Subsea7 and EnBW have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly study several offshore wind-powered hydrogen production concepts. Within the framework of a study, the two partners will explore the technical and commercial elements of green offshore hydrogen production, from both pilot and comm
EDF Renewables and Deep Wind Offshore are cooperating with Moreld Ocean Wind for the floating solution at the offshore wind development on Utsira Nord in the Norwegian North Sea. EDF Renewables has been working with Deep Wind Offshore on the first offshore wind projects in Norway since 2021. This wo
Denmark-based R&D Test Systems has delivered a new test bench for the next generation of wind turbine blades to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s (MassCEC) Wind Technology Testing Center (WTTC). This was part of the USD 4 million US Department of Energy (DOE) and MassCEC’s grant to upgrade the
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has launched an accelerator programme in the East of England to bring new products and services to commercialisation, with nine companies getting a boost to advance their technologies and solutions, predominantly those for application in offshore wind. The co
The offshore hydrogen production platform that Lhyfe is testing in France, named Sealhyfe, began producing its first kilograms of hydrogen on 20 June after it was towed last month to the SEM-REV offshore test site which is connected to BW Ideol’s floating wind turbine Floatgen. Sealhyfe is capable o
Engineering researchers, from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, have won a GBP 125,000 grant from renewables investor Greencoat UK Wind to develop their innovative wind turbine recycling process. The researchers are developing a technique to turn old wind turbine blades into powders that coul
DNV has awarded Bassoe Technology an Approval in Principle (AiP) for a 17 MW D-Floater floating wind foundation, designed to withstand extreme 50-year typhoon conditions in the South China Sea. The AiP verifies that the design is feasible for the intended application, and, in principle, complies wit
Norwegian Offshore Wind (NOW) has launched today the NOW Accelerator, designed to foster the growth of startups and scaleups in the offshore wind industry. Starting in August, the programme is the first of its kind, said Norwegian Offshore Wind. The accelerator will run in close collaboration betwee
Equinor and Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE) have completed a pilot study using environmental DNA (eDNA) to monitor the biodiversity and abundance of marine life in waters around the 30 MW Hywind Scotland floating offshore wind farm. The pilot study took place in August 2021, at Equinor’s Hywind Sc
J-POWER, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), Chubu Electric Power, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” Line), and Albatross Technology (Albatross) have entered into a joint research agreement for a next-generation floating axis wind demonstration project offshore Japan. With limited shallow sea ar
The Danish company Ørsted and Łukasiewicz – Instytut Elektrotechniki in Poland have signed a cooperation agreement to develop an innovative technology for recycling turbine blades from offshore wind farms. On the basis of the concluded agreement, Ørsted will provide Łukasiewicz – Instytut Elektrotec
Norwegian company Ocean Ventus has launched a complete end-to-end solution for floating wind and is exploring the potential for a large-scale production facility in Norway. The company says that its end-to-end solution can bring down the cost of floating wind, from foundation production to transport
