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Carver Cos., the firm that owns the Port of Coeymans, has won what is expected to be a lucrative contract to provide rocks for the foundations of offshore wind farms being built off the coast of Long Island. Terms of the deal with a Houston company called Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. were not… Read More
A turbine at one of the UK’s oldest offshore wind farms was ablaze earlier today, with spectacular video showing the aftermath of the fire at the Scroby Sands project off eastern England. The fire at one of the wind farm’s 30 Vestas 2MW turbines was spotted on Tuesday morning, with coastguard and fire officials telling… Read More
Before the turbines comes the news coverage. A story published Monday in Politico offers the latest look from a national publication at the nascent efforts to develop floating wind energy off the coast of Humboldt County — dramatic pause — “at a depth and scale never before attempted in the world.” The piece notes that this $100… Read More
As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 and 15 gigawatts of floating offshore wind by 2035, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced Tuesday that they’ve identified two draft Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) off the Oregon coast. BOEM says the draft WEAs cover more… Read More
Ambitious pledges to increase offshore wind capacity from the G7 nations along with targets set by European signatories to the Ostend Declaration create an urgent need to evolve the energy grids which are essential deliver this vision. Until recently, development of offshore grid infrastructure has often been managed on a project-by-project basis, with wind farms… Read More
Clean Energy Wire Investors have agreed to pay 784 million euros for the right to build wind farms in four locations in the North Sea in Germany’s latest offshore wind tender. The wind farms will have a total capacity of 1,800 megawatts and are expected to enter operation in 2028, the country’s grid agency BNetzA said. Utility RWE already had… Read More
US Wind, a Maryland-based power company looking to build a wind farm due east of Ocean City, Md., has completed its geotechnical survey of Indian River Bay. The company announced completion of the survey work in a late-June mariner’s briefing. US Wind has proposed to make landfall for its wind farm project at 3R’s Beach… Read More
Through affiliation with a new US vessel operator, Atlantic Oceanic LLC, based in the US North East (NE) and specialising in US offshore wind and Jones Act vessels, the former Castle Ship TM brand has now changed to Atlantic Oceanic (UK) Ltd, forming a new global brand. The Atlantic Oceanic Group fleet currently sits at… Read More
Gov. Roy Cooper says he’s disappointed with the federal government’s decision to exclude two sites off North Carolina from a new round of offshore wind leasing areas. Cooper said the decision jeopardizes North Carolina’s goal of having 8 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2040. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Monday picked three potential wind… Read More
Each vessel will be outfitted with two azimuth thrusters and two retractable azimuth thrusters and a tunnel thruster Brunvoll has received an order for the delivery of propulsion and manoeuvring packages for Purus Wind’s new Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV). The delivery is for two vessels, with two additional vessels as an option. Each vessel… Read More
Initial survey work will soon begin to support offshore wind development in the Carolina Long Bay lease area, off North Carolina. Due to the close proximity of the lease area to calving habitat of the endangered North Atlantic right whale, NRDC is pleased to see that these offshore wind planning surveys will be undertaken with protective… Read More
Jan De Nul Group’s newest crane vessel, Les Alizés, kicks off her maiden assignment by installing the first of 107 monopile foundations for the construction of Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 wind farms in Germany. Delivered early 2023, Les Alizés arrived in the Dutch Eemshaven at the end of June, where the… Read More
Three new possible offshore wind sites have been chosen for development off the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia coasts. Totaling 356,550 acres, the Wind Energy Areas are expected to support 4-8 gigawatts of energy production–enough to power nearly two million homes by some estimates. The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) says the locations were… Read More
Vattenfall, a Swedish energy company, has for years been doing preliminary work for what would be one of the world’s largest offshore wind complexes, in the North Sea off eastern England. Now, there are questions about whether this project will ever be built. Last month, Vattenfall said it would halt the first of three phases… Read More
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