The National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC) has contracted wind energy consultancy OWC to research coordinating use of transmission to allow multiple offshore wind projects to use the same landfall location and potentially the same onshore corridor. Under a contract worth
Environmental Resources Management’s (ERM) floating wind-to-hydrogen project, ERM Dolphyn, has entered the commercial demonstration phase, which will be supported by Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) after the company just won a contract to provide topside Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) service
The following article is a guest post by Una Softic, a Global Partnerships Advisor at PowerX. Japanese company PowerX is addressing renewable energy transfer challenges with strategic partners in Japan and globally, developing a power transfer vessel – Power Ark, and building a large-scale battery a
The MSPAR floating wind turbine foundation has passed model tests and is now ready for Approval in Principle (AIP) and a full-scale prototype, according to South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Netherlands-based Monobase Wind, which plan to roll out the prototype in 2023/2024. The test
The Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) has awarded EOLOS Floating LiDAR Solutions two research and development (R&D) projects designed to advance wind, metocean, and environmental measurement technologies, and digital services for the offshore wind industry. The first
The world’s first offshore charging points for electric vessels will be installed on the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farms off the UK around late summer, according to the UK’s Department for Transport. The project to develop an offshore wind on-turbine electrical vessel charging system is led by MJR
EDF Renewables has carried out what is believed to be the first autonomous wind farm foundation inspection by deploying a customised remotely operated vehicle (ROV) at the Blyth offshore wind farm in the UK. Equipped and operated from the Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA) Hub, the
Tokyo-based PowerX, Inc. has raised approximately JPY 4.15 billion (around EUR 31 million) in the first half of Series A funding to finance the establishment of the battery assembly facility “Power Base” and energy storage solutions (ESS) R&D efforts. The financing round was co-led by Spiral Capital
The UK government has opened the GBP 160 million Floating Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Scheme (FLOWMIS) for expressions of interest. Announced in November 2021, the investment scheme will provide government funding to boost floating offshore wind capability around the UK at sites in Scotla
Vattenfall has been awarded GBP 9.3 million in innovation funding from the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 fund by the UK government for the Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1) project offshore Aberdeen, Scotland. The funding will be used to develop the world’s first hydrogen-produci
Cumulative global capex spend in the offshore wind sector is expected to hit USD 1 trillion by 2031, but investors will no longer only be competing on price alone, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie. Offshore wind is poised to become one of the key technologies powering the decarbonisation
Sif Group, representing KCI the engineers, GE Renewable Energy, and Pondera have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the feasibility study of AmpHytrite – a green hydrogen centralized offshore wind production project. The AmpHytrite project is aimed at mastering the complexity of a centra
Maersk Supply Service has completed the installation of the mooring, anchoring, and quick-connect solution for the 2 MW DemoSATH, the first floating wind turbine to be connected to the Spanish grid. Maersk Mariner installed six mooring lines, comprised of hybrid lines of chain and fibre rope, and si
Ørsted and ARK Nature have partnered to test the potential of rewilding principles to restore ocean biodiversity and develop the best ways to scale up work globally to ensure an overall net-positive impact on nature when building offshore wind farms. One initial focus is restoring shellfish reefs th
