"Offshore Wind" News

Iberdrola Gives Go-Ahead for Its Third Offshore Wind Farm in Germany

Jun 27, 2024

Iberdrola has taken the final investment decision (FID) for its Windanker offshore wind farm, located in the German Baltic Sea, advancing the 315 MW project to delivery phase.Windanker wind farm will reinforce Iberdrola’s Baltic Hub, which will add more than 1…

BP Halts Hiring, Pauses New Offshore Wind Projects to Win Over Investors

Jun 27, 2024

BP's new CEO Murray Auchincloss has imposed a hiring freeze and paused new offshore wind projects as he places a renewed emphasis on oil and gas amid investor discontent over its energy transition strategy, sources at the company said.The moves…

Atlantic Shores Picks Substation Expansion Contractor for NJ’s First Offshore Wind Project

Jun 26, 2024

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a 50-50 partnership between Shell and EDF, has selected contractor Riggs Distler & Company to lead the Cardiff substation expansion program for Atlantic Shores Project 1, New Jersey’s first offshore wind project…

TGS Set for Offshore Wind Measurement Campaign in Morro Bay Off California

Jun 26, 2024

Norwegian seismic firm TGS has announced a new campaign for offshore wind and metocean measurement located in Morro Bay, off the U.S. West Coast.This initiative further expands the company's pioneering multi-client wind and metocean measurement initiatives in key global offshore wind regions…

Edison Buys 50% Stake in Offshore Wind Project in Sicily

Jun 26, 2024

Edison has acquired a 50% stake in a special purpose company aimed at developing a 975 megawatt (MW) offshore floating wind project in Sicily, the utility said on Wednesday.Italy, which has no floating offshore wind farms in operation yet, aims…

Germany Greenlights First Phase of RWE’s 1.6GW Offshore Wind Farm

Jun 25, 2024

German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency has issued planning approvals for the first phase of RWE’s 1.6GW Nordseecluster, which includes the construction of 660 MW Nordseecluster A offshore wind project.The planning approval from the…

NextFloat+ Floating Wind Project Gets Over $14M European Funding Boost

Jun 25, 2024

NextFloat+ project, being developed by X1 Wind, Technip Energies and NextFloat Plus, has received a multi-million-dollar grant from the European Commission’s Innovation Fund to accelerate deployment of X1 Wind’s 6 MW pre-commercial floating wind platform…

Danish Firms Acquires Siemens Gamesa Turbine for Floating Wind-Wave Demonstrator

Jun 25, 2024

Denmark-based renewable energy technology developer Floating Power Plant has acquired wind turbine generator from Siemens Gamesa for its flagship floating wind, wave, and green hydrogen hybrid offshore platform.The selected wind turbine, a 4…

Japan's Industry Minister to Visit Key Offshore Wind Site

Jun 25, 2024

Japanese Industry Minister Ken Saito will visit Akita in northern Japan on Saturday to discuss the development of offshore wind power with industry and government officials, the ministry said on Tuesday.The move aligns with Japan's increased efforts to boost the deployment of renewable energy…

Cadeler Gets Cape Offshore Wind Farm Turbines Installation Job

Jun 24, 2024

Danish firm Cadeler has signed a contract with Inch Cape Offshore for the installation of 72 offshore wind turbines, each rated at 15 MW, at the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea.The work will be done with one of the newbuild M-class wind turbine installation vessels…

St. Johns Ship Building Delivers Third CTV in 6 Months

Jun 24, 2024

Palatka, Fla. shipbuilder St. Johns Ship Building delivered Windea Enterprise, the second of three Jones Act-compliant Incat Crowther 30-meter crew transport vessels (CTV) ordered by WINDEA CTV, LLC, a partnership of Hornblower Wind and MidOcean Wind…

Floating Wind Startup Aikido Technologies Raises $4 Million

Jun 21, 2024

Floating wind startup Aikido Technologies announced the close of its over-subscribed $4 million Series Seed investment round. The financing was led by Azolla Ventures with participation from Propeller Ventures, Sabanci Climate Ventures, Cisco Foundation…

Norwegian Company Secures GW-Scale Offshore Wind Site in Estonia

Jun 21, 2024

Norway-based Deep Wind Offshore has been awarded rights to develop a GW-scale offshore wind site Saare 2.1 in Estonia.The Baltic countries have agreed to open areas for offshore wind production for a total capacity of 20 GW within 2030, with Estonia setting the pace…

Installation of Hollandse Kust (west Beta) Export Cables in Full Swing

Jun 21, 2024

Boskalis’ cable-laying barge Giant 7 has started the installation of the second and final nearshore export cable for the 700 MW offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (west Beta), being built offshore the Netherlands.The works on the second cable follow the successful installation of the first…

TotalEnergies, EnBW Win in $3.2 Billion Offshore Wind Site Auction

Jun 21, 2024

Oil major TotalEnergies and utility EnBW won a 2.5 gigawatt (GW) German offshore wind site auction that fetched $3.2 billion, the country's energy regulator said on Friday, marking a plunge in price from last year.The auction of two plots in the North Sea…

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