Danish wind turbine builder Vestas has introduced a giant 15 MW offshore wind turbine - V236-15.0 MW- joining GE's and Siemens' 'bigger is better' party.Vestas said the new turbine will have the world’s largest swept area exceeding 43,000 m2…
SSE Renewables and Total have announced that Global Energy Group's Port of Nigg near Inverness has been selected as turbine foundation marshaling port for their giant Seagreen offshore wind farm.The marshaling contract will support 141 skilled jobs at Global Energy Group’s Port of Nigg…
Danish offshore wind farm developer Ørsted has teamed up with Polish PGE to develop two offshore wind farm projects in the Baltic Sea, off Poland.Ørsted and PGE will form a 50/50 joint venture which will work on the development, construction…
Offshore wind investments in the European Union and Britain in 2020 were more than double the level projected at the start of the year and should continue to grow in 2021, an industry group said on Wednesday.The record 26.3 billion euros ($31…
Aker Solutions and Siemens Energy have, as a consortium, been selected by Vattenfall as preferred bidders to deliver HVDC converter platforms for the Norfolk offshore wind project located in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk.'If Vattenfall proceeds with this development…
HitecVision, a Norwegian private equity investor specializing in the oil and gas sector, has teamed up with the Norwegian power company Agder Energi to develop new companies for the coming energy transition.'There are strong forces in Europe…
Royal Dutch Shell will narrow its exploration scope in Norway to focus on natural gas production and possibly offshore wind in future, it told the Norwegian oil and energy ministry.Shell said in October it planned to reduce its oil and gas operations…
Two U.S.-based maritime & offshore services and logistics companies Crowley and Watco, are teaming up in the space of the emerging offshore wind industry in the country.In a statement on Tuesday, the two firms said they'd create a single-source…
Dutch heavy lift and transportation firm Jumbo has recently completed the transportation part of what is the company's largest-ever job - the Transportation and Installation contract for the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan.Jumbo said Tuesday it had mobilized its heavy lift vessels…
British oil major BP and its partner EnBW, an energy company from Germany, have been selected as preferred bidders for two 60-year advantaged leases in UK’s first offshore wind leasing round in a decade.The partners have been selected as preferred…
French oil major Total, in partnership with Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG), has secured rights to a seabed lease for offshore wind development in the UK.The lease is located in the Eastern Regions zone in the Crown Estate’s Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4…
Royal Dutch Shell and renewables firm Eneco, owned by Japan's Mitsubishi Corp, will provide Amazon.com Inc's European facilities with electricity from an offshore wind farm, they said on Monday.Retail giant Amazon, which faces pressure from environmental activists over its carbon footprint…
Production from the Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm in Denmark topped the enormous figure of 10 billion kWh, on Thursday, February 4, offshore wind firm Ørsted has informed.'Since HRH The Crown Prince inaugurated Ørsted's offshore wind farm Horns Rev 2 in 2009…
Spain's largest power company Iberdrola said on Friday it agreed to buy a majority stake in a portfolio of offshore wind farm projects currently developed by Irish renewable energy company DP Energy.Iberdrola did not disclose how much it paid…
Offshore accommodation provider C-bed has said it has won two contracts for its Service Operation Vessel (SOV) Wind Innovation to support Ørsted's offshore wind projects in the UK.'With a double contract to support offshore wind developments in the UK…