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  • Vineyard Wind and Greentown Labs Team Up for Offshore Wind Innovations

    20 February 2020
    Business & Finance, Environment, Technology

    Vineyard Wind and Greentown Labs have established a partnership to run a Greentown Launch accelerator program focused on offshore wind innovations.

  • UK offshore wind and CCS colocation projects kick off

    28 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    The Offshore Wind and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Colocation Forum (the Forum), set up to provide strategic coordination of colocation research and activity on the nation’s seabed, has commissioned two research projects. The projects are designed to inform the best approach to test and demonstrate the colocation of offshore wind and CCS activities in […]

  • German offshore wind farm signs green hydrogen PPA

    31 October 2023
    Business & Finance

    In an announcement on acquiring a further stake in the German Butendiek offshore wind farm earlier this month, Ireland-based Greencoat Renewables said that the project had signed one of the largest renewable energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Germany. It has now been revealed the electricity under that PPA will be used to produce green hydrogen. […]

  • More work for Fugro at Denmark’s largest offshore wind project

    19 October 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Dutch geo-data specialist company Fugro has been appointed by RWE to complete a geophysical survey off the Danish coast, where RWE will build the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm. Up to three survey vessels will be deployed to carry out a detailed pre-construction survey including a search for unexploded ordnance (UXO) up to approximately 34 kilometers […]

  • Celtic Sea floating offshore wind surveys kick off

    17 July 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    The first in a series of specialist survey vessels have set sail from Swansea, marking an important step in the plans for the development of floating wind off the coast of Wales and South West England. Operated by Fugro with a crew of 30, the vessel will spend around 100 days at sea, using towed […]

  • Fugro expanding its offshore wind expertise centre in Virginia

    28 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Fugro will expand its regional centre of expertise for offshore wind, located in Norfolk, Virginia, as the company’s Virginia operations have grown over the past decade with the increase in the number of offshore wind projects on the U.S. East Coast. The expansion, which was announced by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on 26 June, will […]

  • TenneT awards € 5.5 billion offshore wind cable contracts

    5 May 2023
    Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    TenneT has awarded NKT, Nexans, and a consortium of Jan De Nul, LS Cable, and Denys with contracts to install 525 kV HVDC cable systems for ten offshore wind projects in the Netherlands and Germany. The total volume of the contracts for the production and installation of the ten cable systems amounts to approximately € […]

  • TDI-Brooks bags US offshore wind survey deal

    23 February 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    TDI-Brooks has been awarded a geophysical, geotechnical, and benthic sampling survey campaigns to study seabed conditions within the project lease area and potential export cable routes off the U.S. East Coast. The data collected will help determine safe and responsible project design and engineering along with identifying potential geohazards and benthic habitats, said TDI-Brooks. The […]

  • Zero investments in offshore wind farms in Europe in 2022 – WindEurope

    1 February 2023
    Business & Finance

    Not a single investment in an offshore wind farm in Europe was made in 2022, apart from a few small floating wind projects, according to WindEurope. Several offshore wind farms were expected to reach financial close last year, but final investment decisions were delayed due to inflation, market interventions, and uncertainty about future revenues, WindEurope […]

  • Reach Subsea charters vessel to service offshore wind sector

    7 February 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Reach Subsea, a data and subsea service provider for ocean-based industries, has entered a charter contract and corresponding option arrangement with Olympic Subsea, a provider of marine transportation services, for the multifunctional subsea support and construction vessel Olympic Triton.

  • Rovco grows its fleet to service offshore wind projects

    24 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Rovco, a UK provider of subsea robotics and integrated survey, has signed an initial three-year charter party agreement with Glomar Offshore for the multi-purpose support vessel Glomar Supporter, as part of its growth strategy within its site characterization business unit.

  • Fugro to work on first Mediterranean floating offshore wind project

    1 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Fugro has won a contract with Renexia to carry out surveys at the 2.8 GW Med Wind project, the first floating offshore wind project in the Mediterranean. Fugro will perform marine geophysical and environmental surveys to acquire comprehensive geo-data at the proposed wind farm location in water depths of 300 to 900 meters and along the […]

  • Offshore wind to fuel zero-emission transport in Southeast England

    18 November 2021
    Environment, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    Wood has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HYGEN Energy to accelerate the production of green hydrogen for decarbonising transportation in the United Kingdom. Through the MoU, Wood and HYGEN Energy will develop solutions for future hydrogen production plants across the UK, beginning with the conceptual design for the facility at Herne Bay, Kent. […]

  • The Netherlands plans to nearly double 2030 offshore wind target

    12 November 2021
    Authorities & Government, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    The Netherlands plans to develop additional 10.7 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 in order to meet the EU’s current goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 55 per cent by 2030 compared to the 1990 levels. The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management has now issued the Additional Draft North Sea Programme 2022 […]

  • RWE’s offshore wind plans in Japan expand to new area

    28 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    RWE Renewables has emerged as a developer behind another wind project planned offshore Japan. The German company which, after its entry into the Japanese offshore wind market, first focused on feasibility studies and project development in the area of the Kyushu island and off Akita and Niigata prefectures on Honshu is looking at a new area where it could build an offshore wind farm. Offshore Energy – Offshore Wind has contacted RWE Renewables to find out more about the project plans and whether the company is developing it together with (one of) its partners.

  • RWE hires ALL NRG for German offshore wind farms

    19 April 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    RWE Renewables has selected ALL NRG to service the high voltage systems at the Arkona and Amrumbank West offshore wind farms in Germany. Under the recently signed contracts, the Danish high voltage specialist will provide HV and MV maintenance at the two projects. “We are very proud that RWE has chosen ALL NRG to perform […]

  • New Jersey opens solicitation for offshore wind transmission solutions

    16 April 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Regional grid operator PJM Interconnection, on behalf of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU), has launched solicitation for qualified developers to submit potential transmission solutions that would help deliver offshore wind energy to the existing power grid in New Jersey. The 120-day solicitation period, launched on 15 April, will enable NJBPU to evaluate […]

  • Offshore wind to power Europe’s largest power-to-x plant

    23 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Storage, Technology, Transition

    Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has unveiled plans to build a Power-to-X plant in Esbjerg which will convert power from offshore wind turbines to green ammonia. Consisting of 1 GW electrolysis, the plant will be Europe’s largest production facility of CO2-free green ammonia, CIP said. The ammonia will be used by the agriculture sector as […]

  • Damen and MO4 pair up for offshore wind vessel digitalization

    24 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Technology, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group has partnered with MO4 to pair its Triton monitoring platform with MO4 motion forecasting service for the offshore wind sector. This strategic alliance aims to offer data analytics-based services, expected to make vessel operations more effective and safety levels to increase. MO4 and Damen saw the opportunity to integrate the motion forecasting […]

  • Offshore wind could meet 166% of Texas’s electricity demand

    23 March 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Transition, Vision

    The U.S. state of Texas has an offshore wind potential in the Gulf of Mexico that could provide the state with 166 per cent of its electricity needs, according to the recently published Offshore Wind for America report, which found that offshore wind could meet 90 per cent of the U.S. projected 2050 electricity demand. […]

  • New York’s Albany County eyes offshore wind opportunities

    19 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    In a State of the County Address this month, Albany County Executive Daniel P. McCoy revealed the intentions for the county to become the manufacturing hub of Upstate New York for the state’s offshore wind programme. The plan for tapping into the offshore wind opportunities is part of the Albany County Economic Recovery Plan to […]

  • Atlantic Endeavor working on Coastal Virginia offshore wind project

    16 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Atlantic Wind Transfers’ new crew transfer vessel (CTV) Atlantic Endeavor has begun working at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Blount Boats launched the Chartwell 24 CTV the day after Christmas, after which the vessel spent three days going through sea trials and USCG inspections. At the CVOW project, Atlantic Endeavor is providing marine […]

  • Time for offshore wind to wake up to full benefits of digitalisation

    29 January 2021
    Business & Finance, IT & Software, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    The following article is a guest post by Jonas Corné, CEO at Greenbyte, a provider of asset management solutions. The article examines digitalisation in the offshore wind sector, the necessity of it and current challenges that hinder using digitalised solutions to advance offshore wind projects. Despite the global disruption caused by the COVID pandemic, 2020 was […]

  • RWE taking majority ownership of Rampion offshore wind farm

    12 March 2021
    Business & Finance

    German energy company RWE has taken over an additional 20 per cent stake in the Rampion wind farm off the UK from E.ON. Following the closing of the transaction in the first half of 2021, RWE will control a 50.1 per cent stake in the 400 MW wind farm off Sussex. Confidentiality has been agreed […]

  • Akita Yurihonjo gets offshore wind promotion zone designation

    22 July 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    The consortium behind the 700 MW Akita Yurihonjo wind farm is moving forward with the project after the proposed construction area was designated a ”promotion zone” by the Japanese government. Earlier this month, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), identified ten ”offshore wind […]