Scotland-based Swift Anchors, developing anchoring solutions for the global offshore renewable energy and aquaculture industries, has secured a UK£395,000 grant from the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP).Swift Anchors, a subsidiary of AQUOS SCHOTTEL Marine Technologies since October 2022…
Gazelle Wind Power, a Dublin-based developer of foundations for floating offshore wind farms, is unveiling third-generation technology this week at a wind industry event in Denmark.The company said its enhanced design 'further refines Gazelle’s…
The UK’s pipeline of offshore wind projects has reached 97,944 MW, up from 91,287MW a year ago, while the global pipeline topped 1.23TW, an increase of nearly 400GW in the last year. This is according to RenewableUK’s latest EnergyPulse market intelligence data report…
Danish energy firm Orsted and Spanish engineering group Acciona will team up to develop new foundations for floating offshore wind turbines that cut costs and reduce carbon footprints, the two companies said on Wednesday. Floating wind technology…
Norwegian Offshore Wind, an organization that promotes the development of the floating wind supply chain, has launched the NOW Accelerator, designed to foster the growth of startups and scaleups in the offshore wind industry. 'The program is first of its kind and will start in August…
DNV said it has signed a classification contract for four new commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) ordered by Norwegian offshore wind operator Edda Wind. Set to be delivered from Vard yards in Norway and Vietnam, the CSOVs will serve…
Floating wind farm and technology developer BW Ideol has signed a Head of Terms with Elawan Energy, an ORIX company based in Spain, for the joint development of a multi-GW floating offshore wind pipeline off Spain and Portugal, subject to further…
Two floating Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) buoys have been deployed at the Scottish floating offshore wind projects proposed by the BlueFloat Energy and Renantis partnership.A couple of days ago, the two EOLOS FLS200 LiDAR buoys were deployed…
Offshore wind energy planners are giving close review to fixed-tower systems in order to extend lessons learned to floating wind towers, under development now. In the U.S., floating towers have been most closely associated with plans for new wind energy areas (WEA) in the Pacific…
Irish-Spanish consortium IberBlue Wind plans to invest more than 4 billion euros ($4.36 billion) in two [floating] wind farms off the Atlantic coasts of Portugal and Spain, it said on Tuesday.IberBlue said in a statement it aimed to create a combined installed capacity of 1…
U.S.-based maritime logistics and offshore services firm Crowley on Wednesday announced a new investment in Tugdock. Tugdock has developed 'the world’s first road-transportable floating dry dock' known as the Tugdock Submersible Platform (TSP)…
Gazelle Wind Power, a Dublin-based company that develops foundations for floating offshore wind farms, has partnered up with renewable energy developer WAM Horizon to accelerate the development of a pilot plant using Gazelle’s floating wind platform in Aguçadoura…
Salamander, a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group, and Subsea7, has signed an exclusivity agreement as part of Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round.The 100 MW Salamander floating offshore wind project…
Norwegian energy firm Equinor said Monday it would postpone further development of the Trollvind offshore wind initiative indefinitely. Back in June 2022, Equinor and four other oil and gas companies in Norway, partners in the Troll and Oseberg fields in the North Sea…
China Longyuan Electric Power Group Corporation has received Approval in Principle from China Classification Society (CCS) for its floating wind foundation design that incorporates a fish farm.The concept aims to achieve multi-space, multi-level sharing of ocean space…