Ten major South Korean companies, municipalities, and organisations are spearheading a project to develop and build offshore hydrogen production plants powered by floating wind. The first phase of the project includes the construction of a 100 MW demonstration electrolyzer plant in the East Sea. Thi
RWE Renewables, itap, BioConsult SH, the University of Stuttgart, and Technische Universität Berlin are to research an innovative vibratory pile driving technique at RWE’s Kaskasi offshore wind farm. The new method for installing foundations is said to have the potential to significantly reduce unde
Irish government has awarded EUR 2.88 million through its Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) to a project developing a micropiling solution for offshore wind foundations. The funding has been awarded for the design and construction of a robotic drilling system and an anchor template for
Rapid advances in offshore wind turbine technology are currently outpacing the infrastructure capacity needed to install them, a new report from the Clean Energy Technology service at IHS Markit warns. Offshore wind annual gross capacity additions are expected to grow sixfold by 2030 due to dramatic
Danish government has designated Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy’s wind-to-hydrogen pilot project currently under development nearby the company’s Danish headquarters in Brande as an official regulatory energy test zone. The test zone permit gives Siemens Gamesa dispensation from electricity regulat
Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s largest offshore wind project, will use what the developers say is ”a revolutionary platform design, unveiling the world’s first unmanned High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore substation.” When complete in 2026, the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank wind farm will become th
The Salamander floating wind project, developed by Simply Blue Energy in partnership with Subsea 7, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ocergy to evaluate how their foundation technology can be deployed for this project offshore Scotland. Last month, Simply Blue Energy joined forces with S
X1 Wind is about to deploy its PivotBuoy floating wind prototype at the PLOCAN test site off the Canary Islands, after loading out the fully assembled structure. “Portside testing of all subsystems will be performed over the coming weeks, before PivotBuoy is installed in the PLOCAN test site and con
UK-based consultancy BVG Associates is working with the Government of Azerbaijan and the World Bank to assess Azerbaijan’s offshore wind potential. As reported, Azerbaijan recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to cooperate o
New research from Oxford Brookes University has found that Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) are far more efficient in large scale (offshore) wind farms than the traditional Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs). Spinning around an axis vertical to the ground, VAWTs exhibit the opposite behaviour
Dutch oil & gas exploration and production operating company ONE-Dyas plans to power a platform at a North Sea gas extraction field solely by the electricity from the Riffgat offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea. ONE-Dyas, together with partners Hansa Hydrocarbons and EBN, aims to
Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas plans to further expand its UK offshore wind production footprint, contingent on securing sufficient project volume in the upcoming Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 4. Following its recent re-entry into offshore wind, Vestas is now investigating the po
Ørsted and Eversource are committing USD 5 million from their Sunrise Wind project in New York to Stony Brook University to support offshore wind research initiatives. The commitment funded by the project will underwrite research initiatives specific to the advancement of offshore wind through Stony
Dutch provider of step-changing technical solutions Huisman has developed a Motion Compensated Platform to transfer wind turbine components from a feeder vessel. Since using internationally-flagged wind turbine installation vessels is restricted in the U.S. under the Jones Act, a feeder vessel with
