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ORE Catapult and Japan’s FLOWRA to Jointly Advance Floating Wind

Mar 11, 2025

The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the Japanese Floating Wind Technology Research Association (FLOWRA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together to reduce development risks and costs of floating offshore wind.The MoU is the culmination of a nine-month period of collaboration and will include personnel exchange, work on standardization of component technologies and a test and demonstration alliance to facilitate large-scale technology development…

Saipem, Divento Team Up for Two Mediterranean Floating Wind Projects

Mar 05, 2025

Saipem and Divento partnership have signed a collaboration agreement involving the application of STAR 1, Saipem's proprietary technology for floating wind, for two planned offshore wind projects in the Mediterranean Sea.Divento is a partnership between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP)…

MOL, Fukada to Collaborate on T&I Vessels for Floating Wind Turbines

Feb 14, 2025

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Fukada Salvage & Marine Works have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore collaboration on transportation and installation (T&I) vessels for floating offshore wind turbines.Under the MoU, MOL and Fukada…

DNV Approves Hanwha Ocean’s Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Design

Jan 13, 2025

South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean has secured an Approval in Principle (AIP) from DNV for the preliminary front-end engineering design (Pre-FEED) of its floating offshore wind turbine platform.The floating platform model awarded the AIP is Hanwha Ocean’s proprietary WindHive 15-H3…

LR Publishes Recommended Practices for Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Support Structures

Oct 22, 2024

Lloyd's Register (LR) has published its first Recommended Practice (RP) for Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Support Structures.  Developed in alignment with established international codes and standards, including IEC 61400-3-2 and the ISO 19000 series…

Three Floating Wind Projects Up for Testing at Norway’s METCentre

Oct 08, 2024

Three new floating offshore wind projects have signed contracts with Norway's test facility METCentre to trial new technologies aimed at reducing costs of floating offshore wind.The companies that have signed with METCentre will demonstrate floaters with 15 + MW turbines…

1.1 GW Floating Offshore Wind Farm earns Key Approval

Aug 29, 2024

Mainstream Renewable Power, the pureplay global wind and solar company majority-owned by Aker Horizons ASA, announced that joint venture KF Wind, a 1,125 MW floating offshore wind project being developed off the coast of Ulsan and owned by Mainstream (33…

Floating Wind Set for Enhanced Environmental Monitoring with DemoSATH Lab

Jul 29, 2024

Spanish engineering firm Saitec Offshore Technologies and offshore wind player RWE have launched the DemoSATH Lab initiative to carry out further environmental monitoring studies around the floating wind demonstrator deployed off the Basque coast…

SBM Offshore and Technip Energies Launch Floating Wind Joint Venture

Jul 05, 2024

SBM Offshore and Technip Energies have formally launched Ekwil, a 50-50 joint venture dedicated to floating offshore wind.Ekwil is a pure player delivery partner offering a diversified range of ‘series production’ floating offshore wind solutions…

Inpex Joins Japan’s Floating Wind Research Association

Jul 03, 2024

Inpex Corporation has joined Japan’s Floating Offshore Wind Technology Research Association (FLOWRA).FLOWRA was established to promote the commercialization of floating offshore wind power generation on a large-scale over a wide area.By jointly…

ABS and FibreMax Team Up for Floating Wind Mooring Tech

Jun 28, 2024

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Dutch company FibreMax have signed an agreement to collaborate on stiffness-driven mooring tendons for the floating offshore wind market.The collaboration, which is principally focused on floating offshore wind assets…

Prysmian Installs Export Cables for Eolmed Floating Wind Farm

May 30, 2024

Italian cable maker and installation services provider Prysmian has completed the installation of export cable for the 30 MW Eolmed floating wind farm, being built offshore France.Prysmian had secured this project in 2021 with a contract signed…

Apollo and DOF Deliver Extensive Study on Floating Wind Installation Ops

May 21, 2024

Apollo and DOF, in collaboration with the ORE Catapult’s Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FoWCoE), have delivered the study on GW-scale floating offshore wind installation methods.Installing a single, state-of-the-art floating offshore…

Nearly $1 Billion Dedicated to US Floating Wind Development

May 17, 2024

The U.S. departments of Energy (DOE), Interior, Commerce, and Transportation has released a report summarizing their progress toward the goals of the Floating Offshore Wind Shot™, an interagency initiative to drive U.S. leadership in design…

Japan and US Team Up to Cut Floating Wind Costs

Apr 12, 2024

Japan has agreed to partner with the United States to help reduce the cost of floating offshore wind projects, the White House said in a statement released during Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's visit to Washington to meet with President Joe Biden…

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