The consortium behind the Gigastack offshore wind-to-hydrogen project plans to have a 100 MW electrolyser system up and running in the Humber, UK, in 2025. ITM Power, Ørsted, Phillips 66, and Element Energy have now published a report, highlighting the progress made on the project to date and descri
The third and final 108-metre blade has been installed on Siemens Gamesa’s SG 14-222 DD prototype offshore wind turbine at the test centre in Østerild, Denmark. With the final blade in place, the SG 14-222 DD prototype has become the world’s largest and most powerful turbine to be installed, taking
Shell New Energies and RWE Generation will explore the possibilities of establishing integrated projects for the production of green hydrogen using offshore wind power on a gigawatt scale in the industrial regions in the north-east of England such as Teesside and/or Humberside. The plan is one of th
The UK Department for Transport and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult have unveiled the Department’s ‘Operation Zero’, which aims to accelerate the decarbonisation of offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) vessels working in the North Sea’s offshore wind farms. At an event as part
DNV is looking for partners to launch a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) for floating offshore substations. ”In DNV’s latest Energy Transition Outlook Report, we predict that by 2050, the installed floating wind capacity will have grown to over 260 GW and that the technology will reach commercial-sc
GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbine prototype installed in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has been operating for two years, making it the first 10+ MW offshore wind turbine to achieve this milestone, the turbine maker said. The prototype was first commissioned in November 2019 at 12 M
Larger wind turbines and larger offshore wind projects alone can reduce a wind farm’s Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE) by more than 23 per cent relative to the average fixed-bottom offshore wind farm installed in 2019, according to the research carried out by the US Department of Energy’s National Re
Vattenfall has named Siemens Gamesa the Preferred Supplier of wind turbines for the 1.8 GW Norfolk Boreas and the 1.8 GW Norfolk Vanguard wind farms offshore Norfolk, UK. The agreement includes the potential deployment of the new SG 14-236 DD offshore wind turbines and a multi-year Service agreement
Siemens Gamesa has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Energy United Power Technology Co. to license its 11 MW Direct Drive offshore technology for the Chinese market. The SG 11.0-200 DD is the most recent generation of Siemens Gamesa’s offshore wind turbine portfolio to enter seri
BW Ideol’s planned offshore floating wind pilot-project in California has progressed to the environmental assessment stage. This represents the next milestone in the permitting process for what may become one of the first wind farms off the coast of California, the floating wind specialist said. The
Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference (OEEC) has once again organized the Startup Zone for early-stage companies to showcase their innovative solutions and potentially attract investors and business partners. In an interview segment with Coco Kossmann, we hear from two promising startups – Seaqu
Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) has released a design for a 13-megawatt offshore wind turbine. China General Certification and the National Energy Key Laboratory for Wind and Solar Simulation, Testing and Certification issued a design authentication certificate for the unit. The offshore wind tu
TenneT has presented a new technological solution in Germany which can significantly accelerate offshore grid expansion for wind power in the North Sea and accommodate the build-out of 6 GW of offshore wind capacity in Germany three years earlier. The solution includes TenneT’s 2 GW standard for dir
Goldwind has launched a 12 MW offshore wind turbine, along with several new onshore models of as part of the company’s launch of a new generation of medium-speed permanent magnet smart wind turbines. The first units of the GWH 242-12MW offshore wind turbine series are expected to be rolled out in 20
