Korea Floating Wind (KF Wind), owned by Ocean Winds, Mainstream Renewable Power, and Kumyang Electric Co., has completed the geotechnical survey for the first phase of its 1,125 MW floating offshore wind project in South Korea. The first phase of the project, called East Blue Power, has a potential
DEME Group has laid the first export cable for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, while also reaching a milestone by installing the 70th monopile foundation at the site off Virginia Beach in the U.S. As previously reported, Dominion Energy selected the consortium
The Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission released a new plan on August 26 that will lead to China’s largest city opening an allocation round by the end of this year for at least 1 GW of offshore solar energy capacity that will be co-located with offshore wind. As reported by offshore
The wind energy industry employs 370,000 people in Europe, however, if countries act on their goals, 600,000 jobs will be needed by 2030 and finding and skilling is one of the biggest challenges that the continent is facing, according to Giles Dickson, CEO of WindEurope. At a session held at the ONS
InterConnect Malta (ICM), a government entity responsible for Malta’s energy interconnection projects with Italy and offshore renewable energy, has appointed Fugro Italia to survey two areas which the Maltese government plans to put out to tender for floating wind development. Fugro has now started
Correll Group, a subsidiary of SPIE Global Services Energy, has been awarded two multi-year framework agreements from Vattenfall to carry out cable testing and fault finding for Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms in Europe. The two framework agreements cover Vattenfall’s existing and potential new off
JDR Cable Systems is already at the forefront of the production and supply of dynamic subsea cables to the floating wind market and will become a leader as the market expands, JDR’s Chief Strategy and Compliance Officer said in an interview with our sibling news site offshoreWIND.biz. In this articl
Ireland-based survey provider Green Rebel has secured a contract for floating LiDAR services for the Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS), located west of Belmullet in County Mayo. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) issued a call for tenders for a floating LiDAR and associated pr
Geotechnical survey work is set to start this month at the West of Orkney Windfarm site offshore Scotland. The survey to ascertain sub-seabed characteristics at the project site will be carried out by Geo using the survey vessel Connector, starting on or around August 30. The campaign will take appr
Korean company LS Marine Solution and Taiwan’s Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which will see LS Marine chartering a service operations vessel (SOV) from DFO and participating in offshore wind project bidding in South Korea. According to LS Marine Solut
The Crown Estate has invited proposals from the pre-qualified bidders in the Round 5 seabed leasing process which will award up to 4.5 GW of floating wind capacity in the Celtic Sea. Around the same time, National Grid ESO issued a recommended network design to connect the upcoming floating wind far
The European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER) is preparing detailed recommendations on the integration of non-price criteria in offshore renewable energy tenders.
UK energy market regulator Ofgem has selected what is set to become Great Britain’s longest-ever subsea connection as the first project to proceed under its fast-track process and to receive a £3.4 billion funding package. Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is the first of 26 projects to complete the fast-
Swedish floating wind turbine developer SeaTwirl has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with UK-based oil and gas operator Serica Energy, under which the two companies will explore decarbonizing Serica Energy’s offshore assets. With the MoU, the two companies plan to work together on identif
