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  • France Announces New Wind Project Offshore Oléron

    14 June 2019
    Authorities & Government, Project & Tenders

    France will launch a new offshore wind tender off Oléron in response to the announced increase in offshore wind targets, François de Rugy, France’s minister for ecological transition, said. The new project will have the capacity of between 500MW and 1,000MW, de Rugy said at the launch of the 480MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project. No timeline was […]

  • Nass&Wind Offshore to install a wind LIDAR at Grand Léjon lighthouse (France)

    15 October 2010
    Research & Development

    Nass&Wind Offshore, one of the leading French developers of offshore wind projects, will shortly install a wind LIDAR at the top of the Grand Léjon lighthouse, located in the bay of Saint-Brieuc off the coast of northern Brittany (France). This new generation device based on Light Detection and Ranging technique relies on the measurement of […]

  • UK launches taskforce to drive tidal and wave energy roadmap

    18 June 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Vision

    The UK has launched the Marine Energy Taskforce (MET), a new initiative aimed at developing a roadmap to realise the country’s marine energy potential. Supported by The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland, the 12-month project will focus on accelerating wave and tidal stream energy deployment while maintaining high levels of UK supply chain content. […]

  • Danes Explore Wind Potential Offshore Funen

    15 June 2017
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Research & Development

    The Danish Energy Agency has granted a permission to Sønderborg Forsyningsservice A/S to explore the possibility to develop an offshore wind farm in an area between Als and Helnæs in Funen.

  • EU backs CorPower’s next wave energy step with €40M grant

    23 July 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Vision

    Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean has secured a €40 million grant from the EU Innovation Fund to support the development of VianaWave, a 10 MW pre-commercial wave energy project planned off northern Portugal. The VianaWave project will comprise 30 wave energy converters (WECs), grouped in a CorPack array, expected to generate around 30 GWh […]

  • Offshore wind could grow 56-fold by 2050 and significantly contribute to green hydrogen production, DNV’s new report says

    13 October 2022
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Offshore wind capacity could grow 56-fold until 2050, driven by a growing need for decarbonisation and energy security, and decreasing costs. Regarding the latter, bottom-fixed and floating offshore wind levelised costs of energy (LCoE) are forecast to drop by 39 per cent and 84 per cent, respectively, according to the new Energy Transition Outlook from […]

  • Expertise Hub VIDEO: FROENIX Helps Ensure Economic OWF Operation

    28 August 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Earlier this year, the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) released the first wind index for offshore wind farms. The Fraunhofer IWES Offshore Wind Energy Index (FROENIX) helps with estimating the inter-annual power density variation at offshore wind farm sites.

  • Aker gets grant to study floating wind offshore Norway

    3 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Aker Offshore Wind has secured a grant from Norway’s Enova for a pre-project that aims to reduce costs and increase maturity in important technical segments of floating offshore wind. The launched project study explores how the supplier industry can develop and support the realization of floating offshore wind in segments such as fabrication, execution models […]

  • CWind Inks Cable Pull-In Contract with Technip

    18 June 2014
    Storage

    CWind, a provider of services to the offshore wind industry, has been awarded a contract by Technip Offshore Wind, for the provision of cable pull-in services, complete with crew transfer vessel, to transport CWind technicians on site and support the cable pull-in. Building on previous project scopes, CWind is now project managing the entire tower side pull in […]

  • 30MW of Wind Energy to Float Offshore Peterhead, Scotland

    25 November 2013
    Authorities & Government, Technology

    The Crown Estate has granted an agreement for lease to Statoil for the next phase of its Hywind project, which will be located at a site in Buchan Deep, approximately 20-30 km off the coast of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. This 30MW scheme is set to be the largest floating wind project announced to date in Europe […]

  • WP Offshore Goes where Wind Industry Grows

    5 December 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    The Dutch holding WP Group will build a facility for its WP Offshore unit at a new location in Eemshaven in mid-2015. The contract for this was recently signed with Groningen Seaports. WP Offshore has opted for a new building at this location because of the excellent position with respect to the offshore wind farms in the North Sea, especially […]

  • Top News of the Week Sep 21-27, 2015

    27 September 2015

    Two-Bladed Turbine to Be Tested in Eemshaven An offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 6MW will be installed and tested in Eemshaven. Wind Energy Veteran Forms New Company Peter Jorgensen, former managing director of offshore services provider CWind, is investing 20+ years of renewable energy and offshore wind sector experience into his own company, […]

  • Wind Minds Consolidates Power in Korea

    17 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Wind Minds has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Korea’s submarine solutions firm Haechun to cooperate on offshore wind projects with a focus on Asia and Europe. It has been agreed that Wind Minds will partner with Haechun to investigate cooperation opportunities in the field of offshore wind farm development, installation, and operation and […]

  • Join Ruud de Bruijne and Bob Meijer for the OWC session Update NL

    3 October 2018

    The Netherlands has a solid and internationally acclaimed policy regarding the development of offshore wind that has resulted in zero-subsidy bids for projects that will be built after 2020.

  • Join Ruud de Bruijne and Bob Meijer for the OWC session Update NL

    3 October 2018

    The Netherlands has a solid and internationally acclaimed policy regarding the development of offshore wind that has resulted in zero-subsidy bids for projects that will be built after 2020.

  • US Wind and Natixis Go Exclusive Offshore Maryland

    8 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    US Wind Inc. has appointed Natixis Securities Americas LLC as the sole and exclusive financial advisor for its 268.8MW Maryland offshore wind project. The project involves a total investment of USD 1.6 billion, US Wind, a subsidiary of Toto Holdings SpA, said. It is located 17 miles offshore of Ocean City, Maryland and is expected to be operational […]

  • Arbitration finale of rig termination saga bringing $105 million to Dolphin Drilling

    15 July 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy

    Following its arbitration win in a case concerning the termination of a drilling contract off the coast of Nigeria, Scotland-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling has received the go-ahead to kick off the collection proceedings to obtain its arbitration award from Lagos-based General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL).

  • Global Offshore wins cable maintenance contract for Equinor’s wind farms

    3 March 2021
    Operations & Maintenance

    Global Offshore has signed a multi-year cable maintenance and management framework agreement with Equinor for its offshore wind farms. Global Offshore will as the primary contractor supply cable management services and perform associated call-off services, comprising active cable maintenance as well as unplanned repairs. The framework agreement covers the onshore and offshore export cables at […]

  • SPT Offshore Adds Aberdeen Wind Farm to Bucket List

    19 April 2017
    Technology

    Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has once again contracted SPT Offshore, this time for the detailed design and installation suction pile foundations for Vattenfall’s 92.4MW Aberdeen offshore wind farm.

  • Acquisition activity brings busy spell for TGS in Northern Europe

    9 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norway-based energy data and intelligence player TGS has reported a ramp-up in acquisition activity within Northern Europe, keeping the firm occupied during the summer season.

  • Photo of the Day: CWind Endurance at Westermost Rough

    10 October 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: CWind Ltd, a provider of services to the offshore wind industry, posted a photo of its CWind Endurance vessel working at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm.  The CWind Endurance is working as a crew transfer vessel, supporting cable pull in work on Westermost Rough offshore wind farm as part of the company’s charter […]

  • ESB and Ørsted enter 5 GW offshore wind, green hydrogen partnership in Ireland; Reveal plan to bid in next Irish auction

    2 June 2023
    Business & Finance

    ESB and Ørsted have signed an agreement to jointly develop a portfolio of up to 5 GW of offshore wind and complementary green hydrogen projects in Ireland, with the first of these offshore wind projects expected to compete in the next Irish auction, ORESS 2.1. The agreement also marks Ørsted’s entry into the Irish offshore […]

  • Hellenic Cables, Jan De Nul secure new offshore wind contract as RWE gathers Thor project dream team

    25 April 2023
    Project & Tenders

    RWE has selected the preferred suppliers for all the main components of its 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark, with agreements now in place for wind turbines, foundations, export and inter-array cables, and for the onshore and offshore substations. At the beginning of this year, the developer selected Siemens Gamesa’s SG 14-236 DD […]

  • Ørsted and US Wind Back Maryland CEJA Passing

    24 May 2019
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    US Wind Inc and Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind have expressed their support to Maryland passing the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) and the plans to achieve 100% clean electricity by 2040. As reported, CEJA will see the development of 1.2GW of additional offshore wind capacity in Maryland by 2030. In May 2017, this US East Coast […]

  • US Wind and Natixis Go Exclusive Offshore Maryland

    8 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    US Wind Inc. has appointed Natixis Securities Americas LLC as the sole and exclusive financial advisor for its 268.8MW Maryland offshore wind project. The project involves a total investment of USD 1.6 billion, US Wind, a subsidiary of Toto Holdings SpA, said. It is located 17 miles offshore of Ocean City, Maryland and is expected to be operational […]