BP, Shell, and utility Iberdrola were among the winners of seabed rights to develop Scottish offshore wind projects, in an auction that raised nearly 700 million pounds ($958 million) for public spending.Competition for offshore wind sites has…
Ørsted, Falck Renewables, and BlueFloat Energy have won the seabed rights off the northeast coast of Scotland to an up to 1GW floating offshore wind site. This will be Ørsted’s first large-scale floating wind development project anywhere in the world…
As part of Crown Estate Scotland's ScotWind seabed leasing round, the SSE Renewables-Marubeni-CIP partnership has secured rights to 858 square kilometers of seabed that will support the development of a new giant floating offshore wind farm offshore Scotland…
UK-based renewable energy giant SSE said Monday that its Seagreen 1A offshore wind farm proposal had achieved a significant milestone after Scottish Government Ministers consented to its Marine Licence application.The Marine Licence covers the offshore elements of the project…
The first offshore wind turbine has been installed at Seagreen, an SSE-TotalEnergies project which will become Scotland’s largest and the world’s deepest fixed bottom offshore wind farm once complete.The installation of the first Vestas V164-10…
Global Energy Group (“GEG”), the Scottish-based energy services company has agreed on terms with offshore wind tower manufacturing specialist, Haizea Wind Group (“Haizea”), to build a £110m-plus (~$146 million) offshore wind tubular rolling facility at Port of Nigg…
The Ørsted, Falck Renewables, BlueFloat Energy consortium currently bidding for offshore wind leases for floating wind projects offshore Scotland, has partnered up with the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) to investigate the potential…
UK-based offshore services firm Briggs Marine has acquired a majority stake in ARB Wind, a Fife-based, wind industry inspection, testing, and certification company.'ARB Wind has a reputation for providing a high-quality service to wind energy…
French energy major TotalEnergies' Chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanné on Monday opened the company’s UK Offshore Wind Hub in Aberdeen. 'The Hub will be part of the company’s existing offshore operations center in Aberdeen. The Hub will enable…
TotalEnergies, a French oil major working to increase its involvement in the renewable energy industry, has with Macquarie’s Green Investment Group and Scottish developer RIDG, announced their bid for an offshore wind project in an area west of the Orkney Islands…
The UK government has joined the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FOWC0E) as a strategic partner, through its Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).The center's…
UK-based renewable energy firm SSE Renewables has decided to merge two proposed offshore wind farms in Scotland into one 'super project development.'Berwick Bank and Marr Bank offshore wind farms, off the east coast of Scotland, have been brought…
A consortium composed of DEME Concessions NV, Qair Marine SAS, and Aspiravi International NV called Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) has revealed its participation in Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind seabed leasing process. ScotWind is a seabed leasing round…
BW Offshore, an Oslo-listed firm best know for its FPSO leasing business in the oil and gas sector, said Wednesday it had, together with U.S. renewable energy and utility company Invenergy, submitted bids to develop up to 5.4 gigawatts of offshore…
The first jackets for the massive Seagreen offshore wind farm have arrived at the Port of Nigg in the Cromarty Firth, where they’ll be kept before being installed 27km off the Angus coast in the North Sea.The jackets, which will serve as foundations for offshore wind turbines…
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