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Months after first threatening to do so, the Trump administration has officially filed a request to reconsider the construction permit it issued to an offshore wind project proposed off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. It’s just the latest episode in President Donald Trump’s battle against offshore turbines since returning to office last year. The… Read More
By Kelly Lippke Far off the coast of IJmuiden, 795 megawatts of offshore wind power are now being installed in the skies above the North Sea. However, the OranjeWind initiative, which is a partnership between RWE and TotalEnergies, will be completed by early 2028 but was not designed solely to produce and transport energy onshore…. Read More
DEME has secured a contract to transport and install 69 wind turbines at the 1GW Zeevonk offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. The company said its next-generation jack-up offshore transport and installation vessel Norse Energi will carry out the turbine installation work for the first phase of the project. DEME added that the award follows… Read More
Ørsted has exercised a long-standing buyback right in relation to the Gunfleet Sands 1 & 2 Offshore Wind Farm, in which Ørsted currently holds a 50.1 % ownership interest. Under the agreement, Ørsted will acquire the remaining 49.9 % ownership interest from its investment partners for a total consideration of approximately GBP 15 million. On completion… Read More
By Rachel Frazin The Trump administration is asking a federal court to reassess a prior approval of a nearly-completed offshore wind farm, an escalation of the administration’s attack on wind energy that’s raising questions about an infrastructure deal with Democrats. On Friday, the Trump administration asked Judge Roy Lamberth to allow it to reassess whether… Read More
By Maria Gallucci After halting construction on offshore wind farms and canceling leases for future projects, the Trump administration just took another step to erode America’s troubled offshore wind industry. The Interior Department wants to reevaluate a key approval for Revolution Wind — a $6.2 billion project that is already producing power off the coasts of… Read More
1. THE BUYOUTS COST TAXPAYERS UP TO $3.9 BILLION TO CANCEL PROJECTS ALREADY UNDERWAY. Since March 2026, the Administration has canceled 12 offshore wind leases through buyouts costing taxpayers up to $3.9 billion. Companies paid billions to secure these leases at competitive auctions, and their payments were deposited in the U.S. Treasury. The buyouts return… Read More
ENGIE is starting civil engineering work this month for the construction of eight wind turbines in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium. The machines have a combined capacity of 42.6 MW (megawatts). According to the partners, they will produce around 115 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of renewable electricity a year from the start of 2028, equivalent to the… Read More
Wind is once again set to become one of shipping’s most important sources of energy. To accelerate this development, Wallenius Marine, together with KTH, RISE and AlfaWall Oceanbird, is launching a new research project to build new knowledge on how vessels can be designed to better harness the potential of modern wind propulsion systems. Shipping… Read More
By Jeremy Beckman The offshore wind sector continues to advance on multiple fronts, with project milestones, vessel investments and floating wind initiatives highlighting activity across global markets. Project execution: Boskalis secures Zeevonk cable installation contract Boskalis will transport and install the inter-array cable system for phase 1 of the Zeevonk offshore wind farm in the… Read More
An updated merger agreement between Dominion Energy and NextEra pushes offshore wind out of the equation, raising concerns about future resource decisions in Virginia, according to the latest Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) briefing note. Prior to the merger announcement, developing additional offshore wind was clearly a consideration for Dominion, but its… Read More
The company relinquishes its lease to shipbuilder Anduril Industries amid continued delays besetting Ocean City wind project US Wind, the company behind a proposed offshore wind development off the coast of Ocean City, no longer plans to develop components for wind turbines at Baltimore County’s Sparrows Point — at least not for now. The Baltimore-based… Read More
Canadian power producer Northland Power (NPI.TO), opens new tab and Poland’s biggest energy company Orlen (PKN.WA), opens new tab have completed the installation of all 76 turbines at Poland’s first offshore wind project, Baltic Power, they said on Wednesday. The 1.1 gigawatt facility, jointly owned by Northland and Orlen, is on track to begin commercial… Read More
By Anwesha Pattanaik Entr, the consultancy branch of Aker Solutions, has been engaged by Net Zero Atlantic to carry out an offshore wind transmission routing and technology study in Canada. The project forms part of the Atlantic Canada Offshore Wind Readiness Program, which focuses on informing offshore wind development in Nova Scotia and evaluating possible… Read More
By Xinxin Wang The 2GW Yangjiang Fanshi offshore wind project off the coast of Guangdong province has achieved full-capacity operation, according to China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), marking China’s first large-scale deployment of 18MW offshore wind turbines. Source