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The installation of an offshore wind farm’s first turbine foundation has been described as a “real wow moment”. ScottishPower Renewables announced the construction milestone had been reached at East Anglia Three, being built 69km (43 miles) off the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk. The £4bn ($5.3bn) wind farm will have 95 turbines, each almost 84m… Read More
A roadmap for how Oregon would handle offshore wind energy development is still in the works even as the Trump administration looks to stop future projects. In January, one of President Donald Trump’s early executive orders halted permits for onshore wind projects and withdrew all of the outer continental shelf in federal waters from future… Read More
The US administration said it would implement an emergency permitting process for energy and mining projects on federal lands, slashing approval times that typically take months or years to 28 days at most. Solar power and offshore wind energy were excluded from the order. A wind turbine bill in Oklahoma calling for setbacks from homes and… Read More
Germany’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, EnBW’s He Dreiht, just hit a big milestone: The first enormous turbine is now up in the North Sea. He Dreiht – which means “it spins” in Low German – is using Vestas’s massive 15 megawatt (MW) turbines, the first project in the world to install them. Just… Read More
Synergy with LS Cable & System…Taiwan’s Market Preoccupation at 2.5 trillion won LS Marine Solution announced on the 28th that it has succeeded in signing a $15.8 million (about 22.7 billion won) subsea cable burial contract at Taiwan’s offshore wind farm. This contract is the first overseas expansion case for a domestic submarine cable contractor…. Read More
“Repowering” of wind turbines is turning into a big business for renewable energy companies including GE Vernova, Vestas and Siemens, despite President Trump’s vocal opposition and ‘no new windmills’ pledge, as well as tariffs on steel and aluminum. The nation’s onshore wind industry, built out over several decades, is generating nearly 11% of America’s electricity,… Read More
Swiss-based marine construction specialist Allseas has picked French tubing manufacturer Vallourec to supply line pipes for Petrobras’ Búzios 10 offshore project. This contract represents nearly 18,000 tonnes of subsea seamless premium carbon steel line pipes for the risers and flowlines. The contract includes an optional scope of almost 5,000 tonnes. The contract also includes Vallourec’s… Read More
Orsted A/S shares dropped almost 10% on the first day of trading since President Donald Trump’s administration ordered another developer to halt construction of a wind farm off the US coast. The move marked an escalation in Trump’s actions against the US offshore wind industry since his inauguration in January. While early stage developments were mostly on hold,… Read More
South Africa’s logistics and supply chain industry is still waiting to learn more about wind ferocity and gusting patterns affecting freight movement in Table Bay following academic research, the findings of which Transnet National Port Authority (TNPA) is said to be aware of. An industry insider based in Cape Town said a final report, compiled… Read More
Executive orders, construction pauses and permitting headwinds threaten the state’s clean energy goals. When President Donald Trump took office in January, he ordered the federal government to hit the brakes on all offshore wind permitting and leasing, putting thousands of megawatts of clean energy at risk in the tristate area. New York already has one offshore wind… Read More
Equinor ASA EQNR, the Norwegian energy major, has suspended offshore construction on the Empire Wind project after the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) issued a halt work order. The order, received by Empire Offshore Wind LLC on April 16, requires an immediate cessation of all activities on the outer continental shelf until BOEM concludes… Read More
The Trump administration’s decision to halt the Empire Wind 1 project could “spook” developers of other US offshore wind projects currently under construction and put “billions of dollars of investments” at risk, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF). Source
ScottishPower Renewables, a subsidiary of the Iberdrola Group, has entered into charter agreements valued at over £16 million with two Norfolk-based marine companies, NR Marine Services and OEG, to provide vessels for the construction of the East Anglia THREE offshore windfarm. The windfarm, set to commence operations in 2026, will have a capacity of 1.4GW,… Read More
The Empire Wind Project was the last wind project off the Jersey Shore Feds investigate if approval was rushed NY Gov. Hochul calls the order an ‘overreach’ by the Trump administration Supporters of wind energy are digging in after the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management stopped all construction on the Empire Wind Project, effectively… Read More
(OE) New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said she would fight the federal decision to halt all construction for the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project made by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI). The U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered a halt to construction on Equinor’s Empire Wind project off the coast of… Read More