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Toyo Construction Co. Ltd. needed a flexible vessel designed for the growing Japanese offshore wind market, while maintaining the versatility to operate worldwide. VARD responded with a tailor-made VARD 9 15 cable laying and construction vessel. With a removable cable lay system, two offshore cranes and a large working deck, the vessel can transition between… Read More
The eagle (transformer) has landed to help deliver power from Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm ⚡ Our last of nine massive transformers has arrived on site at Hornsea 3’s Onshore Converter Station. With each one weighing up to 272 tonnes, the equivalent of 150 average cars, it’s taken quite the operation to get them in… Read More
By Felicity Bradstock United States President Donald Trump has repeatedly targeted offshore wind since coming into office last year, as he strives to expand the country’s fossil fuel sector and shift the focus away from renewable energy. Trump has sought to halt the development of several offshore wind projects and has even resorted to paying… Read More
By Michael McKenna In a court filing last week, the Justice Department said it wanted to reopen a permit for the New England Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts. The Justice Department told the court that the Interior Department needs to reevaluate the project’s compliance with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Wait a… Read More
By Daniel Garcia Offshore wind turbines planted in hurricane-prone waters are engineered to endure the most violent storms on earth. But for years, the wind models and wave models used to define those extremes have been developed separately — producing design conditions that don’t necessarily reflect the same storm, or even the same physics. As… Read More
By Gareth Chetwynd SSE Renewables is stepping up repairs to GE Vernova’s Haliade-X turbines on the 3.6GW Dogger Bank offshore wind farm development, UK government documents and market intelligence analysts have confirmed. Source
By Nathaniel Eisen, Inside Climate News Picture a buoyant triangular steel or concrete platform roughly the dimensions of a baseball field. Now place a wind turbine taller than the London Eye on top, connect mooring lines to the seabed and power cables to the grid, and you’ve got a floating wind turbine. This fantastical-sounding technology… Read More
By Ros Davidson The Trump administration has officially filed a request to reconsider the construction permit that it issued in December 2024 to a US Wind offshore project proposed off the coast of Maryland. Source
Ten years ago, offshore wind in Taiwan was primarily a vision. Today, we’ve installed 199 turbines offshore, supported by our local team of around 200 colleagues 🤝 This progress in Taiwan’s offshore wind industry has been made possible through partnerships, local talent, and a shared commitment to the energy transition. From supporting the development of… Read More
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