The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review and will hold a wind energy auction for two lease areas offshore North Carolina and South Carolina on 11 May. The lease areas include 110,091 acres in the Carolina Long Bay. If developed, they could result in at leas
PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted have issued a contract notice seeking engineering, procurement and construction services covering the onshore connections of the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 and 1 GW Baltica 3 offshore wind farms. The tender is divided into two lots and covers the EPC scope for the wind
Cosco Shipping (Qidong) Offshore has entered into an agreement with the US vessel designer Friede & Goldman for a new Jones Act-compliant wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), according to a social media post from the Houston-based company. The vessel design will be based on Friede & Goldman’s Ba
The Norwegian Government has proposed the sites in the Utsira Nord lease area to be allocated based on qualitative criteria, rather than through an auction. The area is one of the two Norway will soon offer to developers and has been deemed most suitable for floating wind technology. The qualitative
Dan McKee, the Governor of the US State of Rhode Island, has introduced legislation that would require a market-competitive procurement for approximately 600 MW of newly-developed offshore wind capacity. If enacted, Rhode Island’s primary utility company would be required to issue the procurement no
Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine has won a contract for the construction of a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) based on the company’s in-house design in collaboration with an unidentified customer. The WTIV project, secured through the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floa
Electric transmission company LS Power Grid, a subsidiary of LS Power, has unveiled plans to bring power generated from New Jersey offshore wind farms into the state’s onshore electric grid. The company said the costs of its plan are between 20 and 50 per cent lower than the costs of competing propo
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) has won contracts to supply wind turbines for two offshore wind projects in Chinese waters with a combined capacity of 360 MW. DEC will provide its 7.5 MW turbines for the 300 MW Zheneng Taizhou No. 1 offshore wind farm in the Eas
Orient Cable (NBO) has been awarded a EUR 240 million contract for a 1 GW offshore wind project developed by Guangdong Energy in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China. The EPCI contract includes the supply, engineering, transportation, installation, and pre-commissioning of two 60-kilometre-long 500
TenneT has awarded a consortium between Boskalis and Orient Cable (NBO) a contract for the Hollandse Kust West Beta export cable, which will connect the 700 MW offshore platform to TenneT’s onshore grid in the Netherlands. The contract scope comprises the supply and installation of two 65-kilometre-
The UAE-based offshore construction and fabrication specialist Lamprell has signed a capacity reservation agreement for the Moray West offshore wind farm project in Scotland. The agreement is in furtherance of the exclusivity agreement announced back in January when Lamprell did not reveal the clien
A specially formed consortium between GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and New York-based BOND Civil & Utility Construction has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) contract to supply a digital onshore substation for Empire Wind 1 wind farm offshore New York, USA. Empire
Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy will start consultations with potential developers of the country’s first offshore wind farm in March. Consultations will take place in preparation for the auction for the development of the 700 MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, with meetings with potential inve
The Dutch government has designated three new areas and has confirmed two previously designated areas in the North Sea for the development of offshore wind farms with a combined capacity of 10.7 GW. With the new areas, the Netherlands is doubling the total planned capacity for offshore wind energy t
