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Known as “America’s Greatest Family Resort,” this beachside city now has a new distinction: It has become the epicenter of opposition to wind energy projects off New Jersey and the East Coast. Residents of Ocean City and surrounding Cape May County, helped by an outside group opposed to renewable energy, are mobilizing to stop Ocean… Read More
There will be another offshore wind turbine farm off the coast of New Jersey. New Jersey’s Board has approved a project located off the shore of Long Beach Island of Public Utilities. On Friday, energy companies RWE from Essen, Germany, and National Grid based in New York made a groundbreaking announcement about their joint venture… Read More
About 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, a massive structure emerges from the Atlantic Ocean. Nearby it will have the biggest turbines in the Atlantic, as tall as the Washington Monument with the Statue of Liberty stacked on top. It’s the first offshore power substation in the United States and in October it is… Read More
NASH Maritime begins collecting data to undertaken navigation risk assessment Southampton: Specialist shipping and navigation consultancy, NASH Maritime, is currently undertaking vessel traffic surveys in the North Sea off the Aberdeenshire coast, northeast of Fraserburgh and in the outer Moray Firth. The data collected by the surveys will be used to inform the navigation risk assessment… Read More
In May, ships started arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts carrying offshore wind turbines taller than a football field is long. These turbines are now being installed 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard at the United States’ first utility-scale offshore wind farm. 62 turbines, capable of powering over 400,000 homes, will provide pollution-free electricity to… Read More
The costs associated with U.S. offshore wind projects have risen by 57% since 2021 due to inflation in components and labor costs, as well as rising interest rates, leading to a large number of canceled or renegotiated deals. The recent cancellations of major offshore wind projects have erased billions of dollars in planned spending and… Read More
America’s first major offshore wind farm is coming into focus on the wavy horizon off Massachusetts. An electric substation the length of a football field looms three stories above the water. Six yellow T-shaped poles protrude from the waves in a line along the ocean. They will serve as foundations for the project’s first turbines… Read More
Work to install the first of the wind turbines at the UK’s Dogger Bank – on course to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm – is set to begin within days, said the companies behind the project. Project partners SSE, Equinor and Vargronn said the installation of the first of the 277 13MW GE… Read More
Avangrid, a U.S.-based subsidiary of the Spanish renewable energy giant Iberdrola, on Monday shared a photo of the completed Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind substation. This is the first offshore wind substation installed in the U.S. and will serve the country’s first large-scale offshore wind farm – Vineyard Wind. The offshore substation serves to collect the… Read More
The Biden administration appears to be scrambling for research on the conflict between wind turbines and a highly endangered whale species on the East Coast following reports of “unprecedented” whale deaths. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), a regulatory body from the Department of Interior that leases offshore areas for energy development, posted a grant notice in May targeted… Read More
Two Chinese yards have completed deliveries of an offshore installation ship and a large river and coastal dredger while US and Russian operators have placed orders for new dredgers. Chinese-built large crane ship enters service Chinese shipbuilder Zhenhua Heavy Industry has delivered a new large crane vessel to China Communications Construction Company (CCCC). Haifeng 2001 has… Read More
LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) – BP (BP.L) and its partner Equinor (EQNR.OL) are renegotiating the terms of power supply agreements linked to their giant wind developments off the U.S. East Coast, BP CEO Bernard Looney said on Tuesday. “We are in the midst of renegotiating our PPA (power purchase agreement) contracts in the East Coast with our partner Equinor,”… Read More
Last week, Dutch marine contractor Boskalis completed the installation of what is the first US manufactured offshore wind substation at the South Fork Wind offshore wind farm. Boskalis, that was awarded the contract to manage transport and installation of the offshore substation and the XXL monopiles for the project last year, used its heavy lift… Read More
Port of Entry Harbor District begins environmental review for project to turn Humboldt Bay into a wind farm manufacturing hub Big changes are afoot on the Samoa Peninsula. The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District is planning to construct a large manufacturing center to craft and assemble giant wind turbines suitable for the deep… Read More
On a recent weekday, gulls circled overhead while a backhoe leveled a pile of dirt along the industrial waterfront of New Bedford, Massachusetts. “We’re developing a port facility here to support offshore wind construction,” said Andrew Saunders, the president of the port, called the Foss Marine Terminal. When it’s complete, Saunders plans to lease the… Read More