Equinor will postpone a further development of the Trollvind offshore wind initiative off Norway indefinitely. The company said the decision was based on several challenges facing the project, including technology availability, rising costs, and a strained timetable to deliver on the original concep
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has awarded Fugro a geophysical survey contract for two offshore wind farm sites in the German exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the North Sea. Working together with Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES), Fugro’s Geo-data will be
Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) has completed the analysis and assessment of wind conditions for future German offshore wind tendering site N-6.7. The analysis, completed with Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) and ProPlanEn, was conducted via three work packages. The plausibility a
London-headquartered Corio Generation and Daewoo Engineering and Construction (Daewoo E&C) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop offshore wind projects in South Korea. Under the MoU, Corio and Daewoo E&C have agreed to explore collaboration opportunities in developing bo
The shareholders of the TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind project, Shell, TEPCO Renewable Power, RWE, and Stiesdal Offshore have launched a global competition to accelerate the technical advancement of floating offshore wind. The aim of the competition, called “TetraSpar Innovation Challenge”, is
Brisbane-headquartered Orchid Energy has announced that it is in the early stages of investigating the potential for a multi-gigawatt portfolio of fixed and floating offshore wind projects off Queensland, Australia. Orchid Energy’s plans are focused on three priority projects suitable for the deploy
RWE and SSE Renewables have commenced the statutory consultation on their proposals for the North Falls offshore wind farm, an extension to the existing Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm that is being developed in the southern North Sea. In this third round of consultation, the project team seeks c
Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet has awarded Fugro a contract to deploy multiple floating LiDARs at the new offshore wind farm sites in Denmark. There are four new sites the Danish government has designated for offshore wind farms, which could add as much as 7.2 GW of new capacity
Sweden-headquartered SeaTwirl has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kontiki Winds to identify and discuss the opportunities to electrify oil and gas assets and other offshore applications, with the use of SeaTwirl’s floating wind turbines. Under the MoU, the two companies will explore
The Ports of Rotterdam and Brazil’s Pecém have signed a collaboration agreement on energy projects such as offshore wind and green hydrogen production. The aim of this partnership is to strengthen bilateral cooperation and knowledge and promote public and private initiatives between the Netherlands
Statkraft and its partner Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have been selected in Ireland’s first auction for offshore wind under the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (ORESS-1) to develop the 500 MW North Irish Sea Array (NISA) offshore wind project. NISA was one of seven offshore renewab
Sharing infrastructure, services and supply chain between wind and wave energy projects can reduce the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) for wind by up to 7% and by up to 40% for wave energy, while the combined LCOE of a shared project can be up to 12% lower than in separate developments, according to
The European Union has granted EUR 252,500 of funding, as part of its Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) policy, to assess the feasibility of a potential offshore wind farm in the Northern Adriatic Sea. The CEF Energy support will co-fund preparatory studies to help assess the feasibility of a potenti
Dutch start-up TouchWind, the developer of a floating wind turbine with a tilting, angled one–piece rotor, is installing a small–scale prototype at Fieldlab Green Economy Westvoorne, the Netherlands, for testing that is set to start this month. The field lab, located on the north bank of the Oostvoo
