RWE has signed an agreement with Greencoat to sell a 49% stake in the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm in the UK. With a 51% share in the project, RWE will remain the majority shareholder and will continue operating the 219 MW wind farm. The agreed cash consideration amounts to GBP 648 million. The
The Osprey Group has won a contract to provide handling and storage services for the spare export cable for the Moray East offshore wind farm. Under the contract, the company will receive and store approximately 2,500 metres of subsea cable and approximately 1,500 metres of HDD cable to be received
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is investing in a prototype blade manufacturing facility at its National Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth. The Additive Manufacturing for Wind Blades project will install an advanced manufacturing cell that aims to prove technologies that can reduce blade pro
Fugro has completed a six-month site characterisation campaign at the Mayflower Wind project area off the coast of Massachusetts, where Shell and Ocean Winds are developing an 804 MW offshore wind farm. The company carried out high‑resolution surveys within the project’s lease area and along the exp
NorgesGruppen and its ASKO Fornybar have entered into a collaboration with Norseman Wind to potentially participate in the upcoming offshore wind tender in Norway. The parties are planning to develop an offshore wind farm with 1.4 GW of capacity at the Sørlige Nordsjø II area. According to NorgesGru
First Subsea has won the contract to provide the cable protection systems (CPSs) for the inter-array cables at the 71-turbine Fécamp wind farm offshore Normandy, France. Prysmian Group will manufacture and deliver the inter-array cables for the project. The Italian cable maker selected First Subsea
Lithuanian Minister of Energy Žygimantas Vaičiūnas and Flemish Minister of Energy Zuhal Demir signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 19 November, agreeing to promote renewable energy and identify joint opportunities, especially in offshore wind in the Baltic Sea. Under the MOU, Lithuania and
The Green Jade floating heavy lift installation vessel, owned by CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) and currently under construction at CSBC shipyard in Kaohsiung, will be equipped with a system for recovery of green electricity from the waste heat of its engines. German company Orcan Energy, special
50Hertz has begun onshore cable activities near the Lubmin substation of the Ostwind 2 grid connection project in Germany. According to 50Hertz, specialized companies started using the so-called cable train for the 3km long onshore connection between the landing site at Greifswalder Bodden and the L
Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) and RWE Supply & Trading have signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for electricity produced at the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm. The PPA will begin in 2024 and run until 2039. The 288 MW Amrumbank West is located around 30 kilometres off the coast of Helig
The European Commission has presented the EU Strategy on Offshore Renewable Energy which sets a goal of reaching 40 GW of installed capacity for ocean energy, and other emerging technologies like floating wind and solar, by 2050.
The California State Lands Commission is reviewing two floating offshore wind applications for the use of land for demonstration projects in the Pacific Ocean. This concerns the construction, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of two projects that would be located in state waters off the co
The European Commission presented the EU Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy today, 19 November, which sets a target for 300 GW of offshore wind by 2050, confirming the reports over the past several days. The strategy, part of the EU Green Deal, also sets out a goal for 40 GW of ocean energy and othe
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has manufactured a wind turbine blade made of thermoplastic resin that can be recycled, and has now demonstrated its feasibility and structural integrity in partnership with Arkema Inc of Pennsylvania. This has been done wit
