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  • UK: ASA Bans Donald Trump’s Offshore Wind Farm Advert

    20 September 2012

    Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has banned a Trump Organisation placed advert for giving off misleading impressions on the proposed offshore wind farm, which would be visible from US billionaire Donald Trump’s golf course in Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen & North news site writes. The controversial advert entitled “Welcome to Scotland!” was placed in regional newspaper and it […]

  • UK: Secretary of State Announces Members of Offshore Wind Programme Board

    27 November 2012

    Secretary of State Edward Davey today announced the membership of the industry-led Offshore Wind Programme Board which is chaired by Adam Bruce, the Global Head of Corporate Affairs at Mainstream Renewable Power. The Offshore Wind Programme Board has been established following the recommendations in the Offshore Wind Cost Reduction Task Force report. It brings together […]

  • Germany: NORD/LB Finances Offshore Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

    14 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank is participating in the financing of an installation vessel for offshore wind energy farms. Commissioned by the international provider of construction-related services HOCHTIEF, the “VIDAR” is a jack-up vessel being built at the Crist shipyard in Poland and scheduled to go into service from 2013 onwards. NORD/LB has co-structured the transaction within […]

  • Vattenfall not participating in Dutch offshore wind tender due to COVID-19

    3 April 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Swedish energy company Vattenfall has decided not to participate in the tender for the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, citing uncertainty over the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason. ”In light of the current COVID-19 situation, we have carefully evaluated our risk-reward balance against the remainder of our strong pipeline and the […]

  • PGE to ditch projects outside core business, offshore wind safe

    10 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    PGE will close projects with unsatisfactory rate and those not directly related to its core business.

  • NYSERDA Supports Data Collection for New York’s Offshore Wind Development

    27 December 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is making available up to $5.5 million to support the collection of geophysical and geotechnical data from areas off New York’s Atlantic coast that hold the potential for future offshore wind development. The announcement further advances Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Green New Deal goal to […]

  • GEO.xyz Nets Thor Offshore Wind Farm UXO Box Survey

    26 December 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Energinet has awarded unexploded ordnance (UXO) box survey for Thor offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea to GEO.xyz. Energinet is performing the initial geophysical and geotechnical investigations prior to the procurement of the wind farm. The survey will be conducted in order to minimize the UXO risk for the geotechnical investigations, planned to start […]

  • Lloyd’s Register Supports DONG Energy US Offshore Wind Campaign

    19 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Lloyd’s Register has used its specialist expertise in its Maine-based subsidiary, SGC Engineering, to support DONG Energy on its evaluation phase of the Bay State project with its offshore site and export cable route geophysical and hydrographic surveys. DONG Energy has recently secured two leases in the United States – Bay State and Ocean Wind, off […]

  • China’s first 8 MW offshore wind turbine enters operation

    16 June 2020
    Technology

    Shanghai Electric has commissioned China’s first 8 MW offshore wind turbine, which is now entering operation. The 8MW-167 offshore turbine, which features the “black start” technology, produces 20% more electricity and reduces the Levelised Cost of Electricity (LCOE) by around 11% compared to the 7MW-154 wind turbine, Shanghai Electric said. The 8 MW turbine is […]

  • Almost 70,000 people will work in UK’s offshore wind sector by 2026

    25 March 2021
    Human Capital, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    The number of people working in the rapidly expanding offshore wind industry in the UK is projected to increase to 69,848 by 2026, with the private sector expected to invest GBP 60.8 billion (approx. EUR 70.5 billion) in developing, constructing and operating offshore wind farms over the next five years. There are 26,000 people currently […]

  • Chinese offshore wind farm first to connect fixed and floating turbine

    19 March 2021
    Innovation, Project & Tenders

    Orient Cable has won a contract to provide dynamic cable for an offshore wind project in China which will connect a floating wind turbine to a fixed unit. Ningbo Orient (NBO) plans to use one 35 kV dynamic cable to connect the 5.5 MW floating wind turbine to the fixed-bottom turbine. The plan is to […]

  • HSBC backs local content on Changfang and Xidao offshore wind project

    9 April 2021
    Business & Finance

    HSBC Bank (Taiwan) has approved two green guarantees to support the Taiwanese Century Iron & Steel Industrial and Hung Hua Construction on the supply of equipment and services for the Changfang and Xidao offshore wind project. The bank guarantee issued for Century Iron & Steel Industrial and its subsidiary Century Wind Power is valid for […]

  • California earmarks offshore wind, green hydrogen money in new budget

    17 May 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    California is set to allocate USD 20 million to support offshore wind development in its 2021-2022 budget, on which the state government is currently working. Governor Gavin Newsom presented the US state’s revised 2021-2022 budget on 14 May, before the final budget is established this Summer. The ‘May Revision’ includes USD 912 million in investments to accelerate […]

  • ABS Group to Watch Over Nordsee One Offshore Wind Farm

    17 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    ABS Group Ltd. was recently awarded a quality surveillance and inspection services contract for the Nordsee One offshore wind farm project, owned by Northland Power Inc. and RWE Innogy GmbH through the Nordsee One GmbH joint venture. The contract will involve quality surveillance and inspection services relating to the fabrication, manufacturing and installation of the Nordsee […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Well Positioned to Weather Hard Brexit – Report

    5 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind is well positioned to play a major role in the long term UK energy mix even in the case of hard Brexit, according to a joint report by Wood Mackenzie and Verisk Maplecroft. With more than 19GW of new capacity forecast by 2028, a hard Brexit is expected to have limited impact on this […]

  • UK Launches Offshore Wind Sector Deal, Commits to 30GW by 30

    7 March 2019
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Human Capital

    The UK has launched the new joint government-industry Offshore Wind Sector Deal which will see offshore wind reach the connected capacity of 30GW and deliver one-third of the UK’s electricity by 2030. Under the new deal, the number of jobs in the industry is expected to rise to 27,000 by 2030, up from 7,200 today. The deal […]

  • Yale: US Offshore Wind Could Hit a Supply Chain Bottleneck

    4 April 2019
    Research & Development

    The implementation of U.S. offshore wind targets will not be as simple or, potentially, as green as it may seem since certain issues can “cause a bottleneck in the supply chain”,  according to research by Yale University. Researchers from Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies challenged the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) offshore wind plans, focusing specifically […]

  • CPPIB Takes a Piece of Hohe See and Albatros Offshore Wind Farms

    9 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has signed agreements with compatriot Enbridge Inc. to acquire 49% of Enbridge’s interests in two German offshore wind projects – Hohe See and Albatros.

  • TEPCO and Ørsted Form Offshore Wind Pact, First Stop Japan

    18 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Japan’s largest power company Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) and Ørsted have signed a memorandum of understanding to work jointly on offshore wind projects. TEPCO and Ørsted will work jointly on the Choshi offshore wind project near Tokyo, for which TEPCO has been carrying out a seabed survey to examine its feasibility, and […]

  • Green Shipping Line and Kongstein Form US Offshore Wind Pact

    28 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics

    US-based Green Shipping Line and Norwegian/German Kongstein have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide a complete offshore wind farm supply solution in the US. The supply solution will include consultancy services, a US Jones Act compliant shuttle service, as well as development opportunities at several US ports, the companies said. “We are thrilled to be working […]

  • Report Urges UK to Extend Offshore Wind Pipeline, Provide Clarity

    1 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    The UK government should announce clear targets for offshore wind and commit to an extended pipeline of bi-annual Contracts for Difference (CfD) auctions of more than 2GW of capacity a year, a new report commissioned by the Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) suggests. “The UK Offshore Wind Industry: Supply Chain Review”, by the former McLaren Group […]

  • Shell Keen On UK Offshore Wind Despite Looming Brexit – Reuters

    22 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Shell is interested in entering the UK offshore wind market, Mark Gainsborough, executive vice president at Shell New Energies, told Reuters. The company plans to crack the UK offshore wind market through either acquiring a share in an existing project, acquiring an entire project, or by securing seabed leases later this year, Gainsborough told Reuters […]

  • Industry Shows Interest in Dutch Zero-Subsidy Offshore Wind (Interview)

    5 November 2018
    Authorities & Government, Project & Tenders

    The Dutch government did not just single-handedly decide to go forward with zero-subsidy tenders, serious developers tell and show it is possible, and as long as this is the case the government will not provide unnecessary subsidies or other forms of market protection, Ruud de Bruijne from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) said in an interview with Offshore WIND.

  • Video: Jan De Nul Discusses the Next Generation in Offshore Wind

    20 December 2018

    Watch the Expertise Hub video to find out more about what Jan de Nul is preparing for the future in renewable energy and next-generation turbines.

  • Equinor Buys Half of Bałtyk I Offshore Wind Farm in Poland

    20 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Equinor has acquired a 50% stake in the offshore wind development project Bałtyk I in Poland from Polenergia.