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Inch Cape Agrees 15-Year PPA with SSE Energy for 1.1GW Offshore Wind Farm

7 hours ago

Inch Cape Offshore Limited, developer of the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm, has signed a long-term route-to-market power purchase agreement (PPA) with SSE Energy Markets.SSE Energy Markets will offtake 50% of the wind farm’s electricity output and associated environmental benefits for a period of at least 15 years.The agreement provides Inch Cape with a reliable route to market for its clean electricity from early generation…

DeepOcean Hires CRP Subsea to Protect Cables at German Offshore Wind Cluster

3 hours ago

CRP Subsea, an AIS company, has secured a multi-million-dollar contract from ocean services supplier DeepOcean for the supply of cable protection systems for RWE’s Nordseecluster A offshore wind project in the German North Sea.Under the agreement…

X1 Wind and FibreMax Team Up to Enhance Moorings for Floating Wind Tech

3 hours ago

Floating offshore wind company X1 Wind has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with mooring line manufacturer and cable developer FibreMax to boost performance of floating offshore wind solutions, with focus on tension leg platform (TLP) tendons…

Principle Power Grows WindFloat Portfolio with Two New Products

6 hours ago

Principle Power, provider of floating foundation solutions for the floating wind industry, has unveiled two new semisubmersible floating wind foundation designs - WindFloat TC and WindFloat FC.The new designs, WindFloat TC (tubular, center column) and WindFloat FC (flat-panel…

Chinese Demand Spurs Global Wind Turbine Ordering

Sep 16, 2024

Global onshore wind turbine orders hit 91.2 gigawatts (GWs) in the first half of the year, a 23% year-on-year rise, due to higher demand in the second quarter from China's northern region, Wood Mackenzie said in a report on Monday.China's wind…

US Schedules Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind Auction

Sep 16, 2024

The U.S. Interior Department on Monday announced an offshore wind energy lease sale on Oct. 29 for eight areas on the Outer Continental Shelf off Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.If fully developed, these areas have a potential capacity of about 13 gigawatts of clean offshore wind energy…

TWP Hands in Offshore Scoping Report for 1GW Scottish Offshore Wind Farm

Sep 16, 2024

Thistle Wind Partners (TWP), a consortium of DEME Concessions, Qair and Aspiravi, has submitted the offshore scoping report for its Bowdun offshore wind farm to the Scottish Government.The report provides information on the proposed offshore…

Rovco and Vaarst Unite Under New Brand Beam

Sep 16, 2024

High-technology offshore wind companies Rovco and Vaarst have entered into merger, creating a new brand Beam to boost their offshore wind services.In uniting their capabilities across research, development, and deployment, Beam will provide…

Ireland and EIB to Jointly Assess Irish Offshore Wind Ports Development

Sep 13, 2024

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Irish Department of Transport have established an advisory cooperation to assess capacity, demand and financing strategies for the development of offshore renewable energy port infrastructure, which…

More Than Half of Foundation Components for Sunrise Wind OW Farm Already Built

Sep 13, 2024

More than half of specialized foundation components for the 924 MW Sunrise Wind project have already been built, as the construction for the New York’s largest offshore wind farm continues at Port of Coeymans Assembly Hub.The developer of the project…

Blade Failures Add to GE Vernova's Q3 Loss

Sep 12, 2024

Power equipment maker GE Vernova expects its wind segment to post a core loss of $300 million in the third quarter due to additional costs related to offshore blade failures, the company said on Thursday.The projected core loss in GE Vernova's…

Aker Solutions to Design Substations for Mediterranean Floating Wind Project

Sep 12, 2024

Renexia, through its subsidiary Renext Solutions, has signed a front-end engineering and design contract (FEED) with Aker Solutions to design the underwater substations for Med Wind project, a 2.8 GW floating wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea…

Vattenfall Launches 344MW Danish Offshore Wind Farms

Sep 12, 2024

The Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd offshore wind farms, developed by Vattenfall with a combined capacity of 344 MW, have been officially inaugurated offshore Denmark.The two, almost identical wind farms, are located off the Danish west coast and consists in total of 41 wind turbines…

Nexans Plans $99M Facilities Upgrade to Support European Offshore Wind

Sep 12, 2024

French subsea power cable maker Nexans has unveiled plans to invest $99 million (€90 million) in the construction of new and the upgrade of existing facilities to support the development of offshore wind and subsea interconnections in Europe…

First Steel Cut for IJmuiden Ver Beta HVDC Offshore Platform

Sep 11, 2024

Transmission system operator TenneT and marine engineering and construction company Seatrium have held a strike steel ceremony at Tuas Boulevard Yard in Singapore, marking the start of construction of offshore platform IJmuiden Ver Beta, one of the first Dutch 2 GW grid connection projects…

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