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  • Virginia DMME and Old Dominion Uni Sign Offshore Wind Deal

    31 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) and Old Dominion University (ODU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the state’s offshore wind projects. The agreement, signed between ODU President John R. Broderick and DMME Director John Warren, is based on providing research and support for Virginia’s offshore wind, with focus on the Coastal Virginia project. […]

  • German Researchers Start Testing Offshore Wind Energy Storage System

    14 November 2016
    Human Capital, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    German researchers have started trialing a 1:10 scale model of the StEnSea (Stored Energy in the Sea) undersea compressed air energy storage system designed to temporarily store electricity generated by offshore wind turbines. After several years’ research work, the StEnSea project, funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, has now entered the test phase. In the framework […]

  • Taiwanese Premier Champions Offshore Wind During Formosa 1 Tour

    16 November 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Taiwan is actively developing offshore wind power, which will be an important factor in transforming the country’s overall energy structure, Premier Lin Chuan said during a tour of the recently constructed 8MW Formosa One offshore wind farm off Miaoli County. The nation’s first two offshore wind turbines, just completed in October, show that Taiwan has entered a […]

  • Siemens Posts Strong Q2 2017 Offshore Wind Order Book

    4 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Siemens reported a strong order growth in nearly all industrial businesses in the second quarter of the fiscal year 2017, with the strongest contributions from Wind Power and Renewables and Energy Management, both with large contract wins, the company said.

  • Guangzhou Salvage Bureau, Rich Tech Team Up for Offshore Wind

    4 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Guangzhou Salvage Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of Transport and Rich Offshore (Rich Tech) signed an agreement on 30 December 2016, under which the two parties will set up an offshore wind joint venture.  According to Guangzhou Salvage Bureau, the joint venture will be a player in the offshore wind project construction and EPCI contracting market, with the two companies […]

  • DONG and Macquarie Invest in Taiwanese Formosa I Offshore Wind Farm

    25 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    DONG Energy and Macquarie Capital have signed agreements to acquire a combined 85% ownership interest in the Taiwanese offshore wind project Formosa I from local developer Swancor Renewable. Completion of the transactions is subject to a number of conditions precedent including approval from the EU and from the Investment Commission under Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, […]

  • Block Island Offshore Wind Farm Gets Its Own MUSE

    8 February 2017
    Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    Block Island Offshore Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm constructed in the United States, will utilise DHI’s newly-developed multi-sensor bird detection system (MUSE).

  • Anglo-Belgian Co-Op Gives Offshore Wind Farms a Voice

    16 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    UK-based Quortus and Belgian e-BO Enterprises are collaborating on enabling an LTE voice and data solution for offshore wind farms.

  • Anglo-Belgian Co-Op Gives Offshore Wind Farms a Voice

    16 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    UK-based Quortus and Belgian e-BO Enterprises are collaborating on enabling an LTE voice and data solution for offshore wind farms.

  • All Turbines Up at Soon-to-Be World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    24 April 2018

    Seajacks Scylla has installed the last of the total of 87 wind turbines making up the 659MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm. The project is now set to make the UK home of the world’s largest offshore wind farm for the second time, after it first earned that title with the 630MW London Array in 2013.

  • Public Support for UK Offshore Wind Reaches All-Time High

    26 April 2018
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    Official UK government statistics have shown that the public support for offshore wind is at its highest recorded level since the tracker began in 2012, reaching 83%. 

  • Cuomo: Drilling Goes Against New York’s Offshore Wind Plans

    16 January 2018
    Authorities & Government, Environment

    New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called on U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to exempt New York from the draft plan to expand offshore drilling off the Atlantic Coast, due to the plan conflicting with the state’s agenda to develop offshore wind.

  • Report: UK Offshore Wind Could Grow Five-Fold by 2030s

    18 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development

    The UK could see a five-fold increase in its installed offshore wind capacity by the 2030s, with the industry maturing to the zero-subsidy level by mid-2020s, a new study by Aurora Energy Research shows.

  • Maryland Sets Aside USD 2 Million for Offshore Wind Grants

    16 May 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Human Capital, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) has made available Offshore Wind Business and Workforce Development Grant Programs for the Fiscal Year 2019.

  • Get Your Photo on the Cover of Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2018!

    4 June 2018

    The new and updated edition of the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory will be launched at Seawork International in July: the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2018.

  • Innogy and TenneT Blaze North Sea Offshore Wind Hub Trail

    13 June 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    International energy company innogy and Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly investigate the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind cross-border interconnectors across a North Sea Wind Power Hub system. Sea.

  • German Offshore Wind Farms Breeze Past Annual Generation Record

    29 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Storage

    German offshore wind farms have generated over 17 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2017, according to the data compiled by the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry (Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien).

  • Neptune Energy, RWE unveil offshore wind-to-hydrogen project in the Netherlands

    15 February 2022
    Business Developments & Projects

    Neptune Energy and RWE have signed a Joint Development Agreement to develop a green hydrogen project which will use offshore wind energy for the production of hydrogen in the Dutch sector of the North Sea and an existing pipeline to transport the hydrogen to land. The project, called H2opZee and supported by the Dutch government […]

  • Dutch to start investigating new offshore wind sites at IJmuiden Ver

    3 November 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, through the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), has launched a tender for geophysical investigations in an extended area in the North of the IJmuiden Ver Wind Farm Zone (WFZ), where an additional 2 GW of offshore wind capacity could be accommodated on top of the 4 GW […]

  • TenneT presents 6 GW offshore wind grid solution for Germany

    2 November 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Innovation, Technology

    TenneT has presented a new technological solution in Germany which can significantly accelerate offshore grid expansion for wind power in the North Sea and accommodate the build-out of 6 GW of offshore wind capacity in Germany three years earlier. The solution includes TenneT’s 2 GW standard for direct current connections, supplemented by further technological developments […]

  • UK earmarks hundreds of millions for offshore wind, green hydrogen investment

    28 October 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The UK government has announced GBP 380 million (around €450 million) of investment in offshore wind in its Autumn Budget and Spending Review. Up to GBP 230 million (around €272.5 million) of this will be available from GBP 1.4 billion (around €1.66 billion) that the government is allocating for the Global Britain Investment Fund over […]

  • RINA appointed for cable quality assurance on Sofia offshore wind farm

    28 October 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    RWE Renewables has awarded RINA with a contract for Cable Verification Services & OCP (Offshore Converter Platform) construction site quality assurance services for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. The offshore wind farm’s 220-kilometre export cable route will house ±320 kV high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea export cables, running from the […]

  • NKT targets Polish offshore wind with local power cable center

    9 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    NKT is expanding its presence in Poland with an execution center to prepare for the growing demand for offshore and onshore power cables driven by the development of the local offshore wind market.

  • Equinor and RWE join largest European offshore wind to hydrogen project

    7 December 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Transition

    Norwegian energy major Equinor and German utility RWE have joined the NortH2 green hydrogen project in the Netherlands. NortH2 aims to produce green hydrogen using electricity from about 4 GW of offshore wind off the coast of the Netherlands by 2030, and 10+ GW by 2040. The project was launched in February 2020 by Shell, […]

  • Ørsted to fight Danish taxation of its UK offshore wind farms

    2 December 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Regulation & Policy

    The Danish Tax Agency has decided to tax Ørsted’s Walney Extension and Hornsea One offshore wind farms in the UK and the developer has now announced an appeal to this decision to the Danish Tax Appeals Agency. Namely, Ørsted received an administrative decision on 1 December for the tax years 2015 and 2016, with the […]