Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026. About 30 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, workers have been building America’s largest offshore wind farm at a breakneck pace. The project will start feeding power to the grid… Read More
A major Dutch port has received a multi-million-pound investment to overhaul its offshore wind offering. Quay reinforcements and seabed improvements will place Buss Terminal Eemshaven ahead in the roll-out of commercial-scale renewable energy projects in the North Sea and beyond, bosses have said following the announcement. While the exact number was not revealed, as many… Read More
The Trump administration has said it plans to revoke US Wind’s permit for the project, which aims to power more than 718,000 homes. CLIMATEWIRE | The developer of an offshore wind project near Maryland is asking a federal judge to prevent the Trump administration from revoking its permit, asserting that the move could force the company… Read More
TOKYO – The International Energy Agency cut its five-year prediction for global offshore wind power generation by more than a quarter, citing policy shifts in the United States, as well as project cancellations in Japan and elsewhere. The expansion in offshore wind capacity is estimated to reach 140 gigawatts over the five-year period through 2030,… Read More
The tender has been allowed to proceed after the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator received joint strategic direction to formally initiate the process. It concerns three areas in the Canada-Nova Scotia offshore zone, with exact locations yet to be defined as the call for information seeks to properly identify them. The energy regulator is asking… Read More
Rotterdam – Van Oord has been awarded the prestigious Jan Agema Award 2025 for its contribution to the offshore wind project Borssele III, IV and V. The jury praised the project for its technical innovation, societal relevance, and future-proof design, highlighting it as a powerful response to the urgent energy transition in the North Sea…. Read More
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗮𝗶𝘄𝗮𝗻 There are people who love to prepare a project, and there are finishers. That also applies for the vessels operating on a project. The current dredging works for the development of the Hai Long Offshore Wind Project in Taiwan is a telling example. Our water injection dredger Terra Plana prepares the… Read More
DEME has taken delivery of its new wind turbine installation vessel Norse Wind at the CIMC Raffles Shipyard. Designed to install the next generation of offshore wind turbines, the vessel combines advanced technology and sustainable design features to offer unrivalled installation capability. Marking another important milestone in DEME’s continued expansion of its offshore installation fleet,… Read More
Staff at monopile plant SeAH Wind walk out today but developer insists Hornsea 3 stays on track Workers are going on strike at a key factory supplying Orsted’s largest project globally, Hornsea 3, as the developer insisted it will keep the project on track. Source
The United States has reached a milestone in its offshore wind ambitions as the Charybdis, the nation’s first Jones Act-compliant Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV), has arrived at Portsmouth Port, Virginia, ready to begin operations at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. The Charybdis, commissioned by Dominion Energy, entered Portsmouth Port on 17 September, according to vessel… Read More
State and industry leaders argued that the funds are needed to establish California as a hub for floating offshore wind. Dive Brief: The California Energy Commission authorized $42.75 million in grants for offshore wind port development on Wednesday, in what commission staff described as the first appropriation of the state’s Climate Bond funds for offshore wind…. Read More
Over the past couple of years, the global offshore wind sector has been facing growing pains, with supply chain constraints, policy volatility, and economic headwinds threatening a power segment that has been slated to become the most dominant wind energy source in many regions. These challenges are increasingly forcing companies in the space to abandon… Read More
Rotterdam, 14 October 2025 – Van Oord has been awarded the prestigious Jan Agema Award 2025 for its contribution to the offshore wind project Borssele III, IV and V. The jury praised the project for its technical innovation, societal relevance, and future-proof design, highlighting it as a powerful response to the urgent energy transition in… Read More
By Sarah Shemkus / Canary Media Barbara Kelley remembers when her car and windows were routinely coated with a thin film of coal dust that had drifted over from the power plant on the edge of her neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts. She remembers the noise as a conveyor belt lifted the coal into the building. She also… Read More
Dutch dredging and offshore energy service provider Boskalis has taken delivery of a 100 tonne Tadano GR-1000EX-4 Rough Terrain crane for its central distribution centre in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands. The two axle GR-1000EX-4 has a 51 metre five section boom with a twin cylinder telescope system – one cylinder extends the first section while the… Read More