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  • Statkraft Setting Stage for Offshore Wind Brexit

    9 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Norway’s Statkraft is preparing a possible divestment of its shares in the operational Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm, as well as the Dudgeon and the Dogger Bank projects.  The revised strategy follows the announcement in December 2015 that Statkraft would make no new investments in offshore wind. Preparations for the divestment will be carried out in […]

  • Scotland Bankrolls Offshore Wind Accelerator Programme

    2 August 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Human Capital, Research & Development, Technology

    The Scottish Government has invested a further GBP 1.5 million in the Carbon Trust’s collaborative research, development and demonstration (RD&D) programme – the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA).

  • Cuxhaven Ready For Heavy Offshore Wind Loads

    23 August 2017

    Lower Saxony’s Minister of Economics, Labour and Transport Olaf Lies has inaugurated a new berthing space and a new ramp at the port of Cuxhaven’s offshore terminal.

  • Cuxhaven Ready For Heavy Offshore Wind Loads

    23 August 2017

    Lower Saxony’s Minister of Economics, Labour and Transport Olaf Lies has inaugurated a new berthing space and a new ramp at the port of Cuxhaven’s offshore terminal.

  • Boskalis Buys VolkerWessels Out Of Offshore Wind

    7 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Netherlands-based Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire offshore activities from compatriot VolkerWessels. Under the intended transaction, Boskalis will acquire maritime and offshore wind energy related activities of VolkerWessels, which include VBMS, Stemat and Volker Stevin International (VSI). VBMS, a 50/50 Boskalis – VolkerWessels joint venture, is an offshore […]

  • RWE’s 2015 Results Powered by Offshore Wind

    8 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    The commissioning of new wind farms with a total generating capacity of some 1GW, including Nordsee Ost and Gwynt y Môr, had a considerably positive impact on 2015 financial results of RWE’s Renewables Division.  The unit posted an operating result of EUR 493 million, more than double the amount it marked the year before (EUR 186 million). On the other […]

  • MacArtney Equips Freja for Offshore Wind Ops

    31 March 2017

    Following the recent launch of a new drill ship Freja in Denmark, MacArtney informed that it had provided a turnkey solution for the vessel, enabling the execution of advanced geotechnical drilling techniques and site investigations in water depths of up to 60m.

  • Matchmaking for Offshore Wind Companies During OEEC

    12 May 2017

    A special international matchmaking event will be organised during the 2017 edition of Offshore Energy, headed by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN).

  • Matchmaking for Offshore Wind Companies During OEEC

    12 May 2017

    A special international matchmaking event will be organised during the 2017 edition of Offshore Energy, headed by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN).

  • Mitsui Seals Taiwanese Offshore Wind Deal

    3 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Tokio-headquartered Mitsui & Co., Ltd.has completed all necessary procedures to enter into a definitive agreement to acquire a 50% share of Yushan Energy Taiwan Co., from Singapore’s Yushan Energy Co., a subsidiary of Enterprize Energy Group.

  • Offshore Wind Consultants Opens Taiwan Branch

    13 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    The UK-based Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) has opened a new office in Taipei, Taiwan, to support the local offshore wind sector.

  • BOEM Schedules California Offshore Wind Meeting

    10 September 2018
    Authorities & Government

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is holding a task force meeting to review and discuss the issuance of a Call for Information and Nominations on areas for potential offshore wind leasing in California.

  • French Seek Bigger Offshore Wind Targets

    17 April 2019
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Six French coastal regions and the offshore wind industry have called on the French government to increase offshore wind ambitions in the Multiannual Energy Program (Programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie (PPE)). As reported earlier, France plans to tender up to 6GW of offshore wind and floating wind capacity from 2019 to 2028. The country’s operating capacity is expected to […]

  • New US Offshore Wind Pact On the Horizon

    6 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    Horizon Geosciences Limited and Seaforth Geosurveys Inc. have formed a partnership to provide integrated offshore site investigation services for the US offshore wind market.

  • EnBW Dives Deep Into US Offshore Wind

    11 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    German energy company EnBW and Seattle-based Trident Winds have formed a joint venture to develop the Morro Bay floating wind project off the coast of Central California.

  • Spaniards Make Offshore Wind Power Play

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

    Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new control system for offshore wind farms which is said to allow power transmission to the coast in a simpler, more flexible and cheaper way than current solutions.

  • New York Takes Offshore Wind Lead

    18 June 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) with an USD 18.5 million grant to lead an offshore wind research and development (R&D) consortium.

  • PGE Studying Offshore Wind Farm Productivity

    26 December 2019
    Research & Development

    PGE Group has launched a research project on the productivity of offshore wind farms, which is expected to help estimate the profitability of investments in the Baltica 2 and 3 projects. The aim of the study is to estimate the impact of wind slowdown caused by large projects in their surroundings, i.e. the so-called blockage effect. […]

  • Japanese Companies Forge Offshore Wind Pact

    15 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    Japanese utility JERA and the engineering firm Shimizu Corporation have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate within the offshore wind power generation business. JERA and Shimizu will explore ways to utilize their respective know-how and resources in the offshore wind power generation business to collaborate on related projects in Japan and overseas. Based […]

  • NABU Objects to Gennaker Offshore Wind Project

    14 February 2020
    Environment

    The German Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) has filed an objection against the building permit for the Gennaker offshore wind project.

  • Google Buys Norther Offshore Wind Power

    20 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Engie has signed an agreement with Google to sell 92MW of energy produced by the Norther offshore wind farm in Belgium. Google will use the energy from the 370MW project to power its data center in Saint-Ghislain in what represents the first time the technology giant buys power from an offshore wind farm. The deal is part […]

  • Equinor Completes Polish Offshore Wind Trifecta

    10 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    Norway’s energy major Equinor has completed the acquisition of a 50 % interest in the offshore wind development project Bałtyk I in Poland from Polenergia. The Bałtyk I offshore location license allows for development of a wind farm with a capacity up to 1560MW of which Equinor will hold 50%. The company will be the […]

  • China’s Oil Major Taps Into Offshore Wind

    25 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) Ltd has entered the offshore wind sector with recent involvement in a project offshore East China’s Jiangsu province. The Chinese company unveiled it entered the project this month, however, details on the size or scope of the development have not been disclosed. Offshore wind aligns with CNOOC’s business due to […]

  • California Assemblyman Calls For More Offshore Wind

    27 February 2019
    Authorities & Government

    California Assembly Member Jordan Cunningham has called on the U.S. Interior Department’s Acting Secretary David Bernhardt to lease parts of the state’s coastline for offshore wind development. In his letter, Cunningham explained that due to the expected closing of San Luis Obispo County’s largest private employer, the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, in 2025, around 1,500 […]

  • Japan Approves New Offshore Wind Bill

    30 November 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Project & Tenders

    A bill promoting the commercial use of offshore wind in Japanese waters has passed both houses of Japan’s National Diet.