Venice-based Repower Renewable S.p.A. plans to build a large-scale floating offshore wind farm in the Ionian Sea and connect it to Italy’s national grid. The wind farm is located southeast of the eastern coast of Calabria at a minimum distance of about 61.8 kilometres from Capo Rizzuto and 74.8 kilo
Northland Power Inc. and RWE Renewables GmbH have agreed to co-develop a cluster of offshore wind projects in the German North Sea with a total gross capacity of 1.3 GW. The partners signed an agreement to establish a joint venture company through which they plan to jointly develop, construct, and o
The 399 wind turbines spread over nine zones in the Belgian North Sea produced approximately 6.77 TWh of electricity in 2021, a 0.6 per cent increase compared to 6.73 TWh of electricity generated in 2020. This corresponds to the annual electricity demand of almost two million households, or eight pe
The State of New York will make a USD 500 million investment in offshore wind, hold a new auction in 2022, and explore its floating wind potential, New York Governor Kathy Hochul revealed in her 2022 State of the State. New York will invest up to USD 500 million in the ports, manufacturing, and supp
Vattenfall is working on a hydrogen demonstrator project named Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1), which involves installing hydrogen production equipment on one of the wind turbines at its Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre) in Scotland. The company has already submitted a
James Fisher Renewables has won three multi-million pound 13-15-year contracts supplying specialist operations and maintenance (O&M) services to support informed decision-making for offshore transmission asset owners (OFTOs) at Thanet, Gwynt-y-Môr, and Humber offshore wind farms in the UK. The contr
The commissioning team working at Ørsted’s 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 and 2a wind farms off Taiwan has completed power-on tests on the project’s second offshore substation (OSS). According to the developer’s social media update, the testing was completed on 1 January, following the same work done on
Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy have said that they are looking at early delivery of their two floating wind projects in the Celtic Sea, called Llywelyn and Petroc, which have grid connections secured and almost a year’s worth of bird surveys already completed. “As our joint venture has alread
Singapore-headquartered subsea engineering company G8 and South Korean industrial business group Holim Tech have entered into an agreement to develop a 1.5 GW of offshore wind project paired with lithium-ion energy storage system in South Korea. “We are pleased to initiate the commercial execution o
China Longyuan Power Group connected the 606.3 MW Dafeng Phase II offshore wind farm to the grid on 24 December, according to a press release from the company which joined several other developers in China in rushing to have their offshore wind projects operational before 2021 ended together with a
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DEME Offshore’s jack-up Sea Installer has left the Port of Hull loaded with the last batch of turbine components to be installed at the 1.32 GW Hornsea Two – soon to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm in operation. Sea Installer and Sea Challenger have been transporting the wind farm’s 165 Si
France is opening a period of public consultation on a second wind farm project located within the ‘Centre Manche’ zone offshore Normandy. The Centre Manche covers an area of 500 square kilometres in the Channel off the Cotentin Peninsula which was identified in 2020. The competitive tendering proce
Ørsted’s Skåne Havsvindpark (Skåne Offshore Wind Farm) project offshore Sweden is planned to enter construction in 2026, subject to permitting process and final investment decision, and it looks like the developer expects to see wind turbines of more than 20 MW on the market by that time. Namely, a
