Danish company Floating Power Plant (FPP) has signed an agreement with the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) to test its multi-megawatt hybrid floating wind and wave energy platform off the coast of Gran Canaria. The contract will enable FPP to deploy its hybrid offshore renewable ener
The Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities, Dan Jørgensen, and the Belgian Minister of Energy, Tinne van der Straeten, have signed a formal political Memorandum of Agreement to establish an offshore grid connection between Denmark and Germany including the Danish energy island in the North
Design and engineering consultancy Houlder is supporting Subsea Micropiles, a foundations company leading the adaption of land-based micropiling technology to create marine foundation and anchor solutions. Houlder is providing marine operations and engineering support to accelerate market developmen
Norway’s Bounheur ASA has established a new company, Fred. Olsen 1848, dedicated to developing and commercialising new technologies related to renewable energy such as floating offshore wind and floating solar. Fred. Olsen 1848 will focus on the development and commercialization of existing, but als
LM Wind Power, a GE Renewable Energy business, plans to produce zero waste blades by 2030. The company said it would play a central role in supporting its customers to develop fully circular wind turbines that generate less waste during their production. In practice, LM Wind Power’s vision of zero w
Italy’s Ministry of Ecological Transition has received 64 Expressions of Interest (EoI) for the development of floating offshore wind projects off the country’s coast. The Ministry is working at encouraging the development of a new generation of floating offshore wind farms, and the first round of b
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has been impacted by a cyber security incident. The incident occurred on Friday, 19 November. As a response, IT systems were shut down across multiple business units and locations to contain the issue, the company said. Vestas has since, together with external
Seaqualize, Van Oord, and the nautical research institute MARIN have trialled Seaqualize’s inline Active Heave Compensator (iAHC), the Delta600. The offshore lifting tool underwent 62 hours of offshore testing in the Dutch North Sea, Seaqualize said. Delta600 was tested for fixed-to-floating, floati
Shell has signed an agreement with the Irish blue economy developer Simply Blue Group to acquire a 51 per cent share of their Western Star venture which seeks to develop a floating wind farm off the Clare coast in Ireland. This follows a similar agreement between Shell and Simply Blue Group earlier
GE Renewable Energy has selected Cotes to provide dehumidifiers for the GE Haliade-X offshore wind turbines. The dry-air solution that Cotes provides to GE Renewable Energy, a combined desalter and dehumidifier, is now approved for global Haliade-X wind farm projects starting with the Dogger Bank wi
Ocean Winds, a joint venture between ENGIE and EDP Renewables, has entered into a collaboration agreement with the floating wind technology developer Principle Power, which will see the two companies cooperating on the design of the floating platforms for France’s first commercial-scale floating win
TÜV NORD has handed over the site specific design assessment (SSDA) conformity statement for the Italian Taranto offshore wind farm project to MingYang Smart Energy, the project’s wind turbine supplier. “The SSDA is important for developers or investors to verify the suitability of a turbine for spe
Wood has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HYGEN Energy to accelerate the production of green hydrogen for decarbonising transportation in the United Kingdom. Through the MoU, Wood and HYGEN Energy will develop solutions for future hydrogen production plants across the UK, beginning wi
Hexicon has partnered with Worley for the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), Engineering Procurement Fabrication (EPF), and installation management of the TwinWay project in Norway, a pilot to commercialise Hexicon’s floating offshore wind technology. Through the partnership, Worley will take over
