"Offshore Wind" News

Galloper Signs Diamond OFTO Deal

Feb 25, 2020

UK-based Galloper Wind Farm Ltd has agreed the sale of its transmission assets to Diamond Transmission Partners, which  invests in offshore transmission systems as an Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO).The 353MW Galloper Wind Farm is owned by innogy SE…

Vineyard Wind to Miss Startup Target Over Permit Delay

Feb 11, 2020

Vineyard Wind, the developer of the first major U.S. offshore wind farm, said on Tuesday it will miss its target to start sending power to Massachusetts by 2022 due to lengthy federal permitting delays.The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, part of the U…

RWE, Saitec Testing Floating Platform for OWF

Feb 24, 2020

RWE Renewables and Saitec Offshore Technologies will jointly start testing a floating platform for wind turbines off the Basque coast in 2021 as part of the project called 'DemoSATH,' aimed at reducing floating wind development cost.According to the joint statement…

Northland Expands Offshore Wind Pipeline in Asia

Feb 24, 2020

Canadian power producer Northland Power will acquire Dado Ocean Wind Farm, a development company with multiple early-stage offshore wind development sites in South Korea.Dado Ocean is currently owned by Eui Jeong Hwang, a wind power developer…

Offshore Wind Turns Shipping to Green

Feb 24, 2020

Offshore wind and the shipping sector can reinforce each other to reach the Green Deal targets, says WindEurope.The European Wind Energy Association said that wind energy currently makes up 15% of Europe’s energy mix. The majority of this is onshore…

Financial Close for Taiwanese OWF

Feb 23, 2020

Denmark-based fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has reached financial close on the 589MW offshore wind project (OWF), Changfang and Xidao project off the coast of Changhua County, Taiwan.CIP has reached financial…

Arup to Back ScotWind

Feb 23, 2020

Crown Estate Scotland (CES) has appointed global engineering and consultancy firm Arup as specialist reviewers for ScotWind Leasing, the new leasing round for offshore wind projects.Arup will work together with CES to finalize the approach to evaluating applications from developers…

Fugro in Record Cable Route Survey at Sofia Wind Farm Site

Feb 20, 2020

Dutch geotechnical services firm Fugro has said that its Fugro Pioneer vessel has left the Port of Sunderland in the UK earlier this month to begin a 6-month offshore site investigation and survey campaign for innogy's Sofia offshore wind farm…

Global Offshore Wind Capacity Reaches 27GW

Feb 20, 2020

A record 5.2GW of fully operational offshore wind capacity was commissioned in 2019 which took the global cumulative offshore wind capacity to 27,213MW — a 23% increase from the capacity online at the end of 2018.According to a report from World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO)…

NY Congressman Backs Arthur Kill OWP

Feb 20, 2020

Congressman Max Rose has called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to support the offshore wind development at Arthur Kill Terminal, Staten Island, New York.  'The offshore wind project at the Arthur Kill Terminal is an incredible opportunity to provide more reliable energy for New Yorkers…

Greentown, Vineyard Pact on Offshore Wind

Feb 20, 2020

The cleantech incubator in North America Greentown Labs and Vineyard Wind, developer of the first utility-scale offshore wind energy generation facility in the Northeast U.S., have entered a partnership to run a Greentown Launch accelerator program focused on offshore wind innovations…

Ofgem Selects Hornsea One OFTO

Feb 20, 2020

UK energy regulator, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), has selected Diamond Transmission Partners as the preferred bidder for the offshore transmission of the 1200MW Hornsea Project One wind farm in the UK.Diamond Transmission…

EDS Wraps Up Horns Rev 3 Work

Feb 19, 2020

UK high voltage engineering specialist EDS HV Group has completed consultancy work at Vattenfall's 407MW Horns Rev 3 (HR3) wind farm off Denmark.Vattenfall’s Horns Rev 3, located off the coast of Denmark, contains 49 8.3MW MHI Vestas turbines…

COWI Wins Atlantic Shores OWP

Feb 19, 2020

Denmark-based international consulting group COWI has won a contract to provide a concept design of the electrical transmission infrastructure system for the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind (ASOW) project located off the coast of New Jersey, New York…

Germany Develops Offshore Grid Simulator

Feb 18, 2020

Germany has got a research project underway that is seeking to improve the integration of offshore wind farms into the grid.German research institute Fraunhofer IWES is developing a mobile grid simulator that will allow the testing and optimization…

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