OceanX, which is reported by its developer MingYang Group to be the world's largest single capacity floating wind power platform, embarked on its journey from Guangzhou to the Yangjiang Mingyang Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm in Guangdong, China…
The Biden administration on Monday issued an offshore wind lease to the state of Maine for a small project that will demonstrate floating turbine technology off the U.S. East Coast.The lease area covers 9,700 acres (3,920 hectares) and is 28 nautical miles (52 kilometers) from shore…
British startup DRIFT Energy has closed a seed funding round for making green energy at sea using hi-tech sailing vessels.Led by Octopus Ventures, one of the largest and most active venture capital investors in the UK and Europe, and with support from Blue Action Accelerator…
Cadeler took delivery of the fifth and newest addition to its fleet – Wind Peak, the first of seven newbuilds for which Cadeler currently has signed contracts. The P-class jack-up installation vessel was built at COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (COSCO) shipyard in Qidong…
AUGUST 16, 2024 - Today, the first two China-built offshore wind power SOVs (Service Operation Vessels) ZHI ZHEN 100 and ZHI CHENG 60 was held in Qidong, China. The two SOVs were delivered by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. to Shanghai Electric Wind Power Group Co…
Whereas the foundations of commercial offshore wind development are found in Europe (and Europe will remain the largest overall regional market for offshore wind activity in the coming decade), the rapid development of the large East Asia and…
Renewable energy group Orsted booked 3.2 billion Danish crowns ($472 million) in impairment losses in the second quarter, due partly to a delay in construction of a major U.S. offshore wind project, sending its shares down almost 8% on Thursday…
Offshore wind farm developer Orsted has no Chinese turbines in its current project pipeline, its CEO said on Thursday, but did not rule out buying turbines or technology from China in the future.The European wind turbine market is dominated by local players such as Vestas and Siemens Gamesa…
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has concluded that leases for potential offshore wind energy development off the Oregon coast would have no significant impacts to people or environment.BOEM has made available its final Environmental…
Offshore wind developer Corio Generation, a Macquarie Group company, and Brazilian shipyard and marine construction company Estaleiros do Brasil (EBR) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore how EBR’s facilities could support future offshore wind projects off Brazil’s south coast…
Poland is launching a nearly 5 billion euro ($5.46 billion) programme financed from the European Union's recovery funds to provide loans to builders of offshore wind farms on the Baltic Sea, the state assets ministry and bank BGK said on Tuesday…
Workers, community members, and elected officials have marked the signing of a new Project Labor Agreement (PLA) for the construction of a $300 million maritime terminal that will support the construction of offshore wind farms in Massachusetts…
Norway's Equinor and U.S. power company Dominion were the winning bidders in a U.S. government offshore wind auction of two areas off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, the U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday.The offshore…
In the latest offshore wind auction, Germany has awarded three sites in the North Sea, totaling 5.5 GW, to RWE and Waterekke Energy, which is linked to the asset manager Luxcara.RWE has been awarded the N-9.1 and N-9.2 sites in the German North Sea…
China’s Mingyang Smart Energy has started towing what’s said to be the world’s largest single-capacity floating wind platform, rated at 16.6MW, to the the Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm site in South China Sea.The floater, dubbed OceanX, features…
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