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In recent months, East Coast states’ plans to install massive new offshore wind farms have been battered by bad economic news, canceled contracts and newfound uncertainty about the projects officials are counting on to reach their clean energy goals. Despite the setbacks, state leaders say they don’t intend to dial back their offshore wind ambitions…. Read More
After more than two decades of proposing and planning, offshore wind is up and spinning. Fifteen miles off the coast of Matha’s Vineyard, the Vineyard Wind Project is installing 62 massive turbines. They estimate that this $4 billion project will power 400,000 homes and businesses. But some environmentalists believe the project could cause more harm than good. Offshore… Read More
Last week, the Egyptian government, represented by the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC), signed a milestone agreement with Jan De Nul Group to start the study for the construction of an undersea export cable between Egypt and Europe. In late September, the Egyptian government reaffirmed its plans to build an undersea electricity cable connecting Egypt… Read More
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 21 November 2023 – Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus successfully installed the first of 12 turbines at the South Fork offshore wind farm. South Fork is the first offshore wind project in the State of New York, a contribution to meeting the state’s ambitious clean energy and climate goals. Van Oord… Read More
Britain’s Octopus Energy said on Friday its renewables investing arm had launched a dedicated fund with Japan’s Tokyo Gas (9531.T) to invest 3 billion pounds ($3.7 billion) in offshore wind projects by 2030. The Octopus Energy Offshore Wind fund, set up with a 190 million pound cornerstone investment from Tokyo Gas, will invest in offshore wind farms… Read More
New York State will issue a new offshore wind solicitation on Nov. 30 with bids due in January 2024, the state government said, in a move that should support the troubled industry. European energy companies Orsted (ORSTED.CO), Equinor (EQNR.OL) and BP (BP.L) have taken a combined $5 billion of writedowns on U.S. offshore wind projects that are not even completed, in part… Read More
Baltimore County, Maryland and Sparrows Point Steel have won a major new federal grant of over US$47m to support plans to establish a major offshore wind logistics and manufacturing hub in Baltimore County. The grant is the fourth-largest award given this year through the US Maritime Administration’s Port Infrastructure Development Program. Sitting on nearly 100… Read More
Despite the loss of two major offshore wind farm projects when Danish developer Orsted pulled out of New Jersey, the state is moving forward with its plans to support and grow the nascent industry. The state Board of Public Utilities on Friday voted to seek bids for a transmission facility into which several offshore wind projects… Read More
Baker Marine Solutions (BMS), Covington, La., has unveiled a new concept design for the U.S. offshore wind industry. It helps address the availability of monopiles and lack of sufficient yard space for fabrication. The designed is the BMS 1888 mobile pipe mill barge. The BMS 1888 provides a mobile pipe mill facility that can be scaled… Read More
Boskalis commissioned a large-scale shore power facility yesterday afternoon at its premises in the Waalhaven in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Boskalis vessels are (de)mobilized for own projects at this service center. From now on, the moored vessels will switch off their diesel-powered generators and use green shore power. In addition, Rotterdam Shore Power’s shore power installation… Read More
The Danish company behind one of the two offshore wind farms planned for Maryland’s coast abandoned two large projects off New Jersey last month and now says its Skipjack project off Ocean City needs to be “reconfigured” to go forward. “With the project’s current offshore renewable energy credits, technical configuration, and development and construction timeline,… Read More
Legal proceedings against the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) could threaten to disrupt the timelines for the construction of the largest offshore wind farm in U.S. waters to date, Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and The Heartland… Read More
Most wind turbines look like a propeller on a stick – which is fine. But this design makes less and less sense when taken out into the deep ocean, where most of the world’s best wind energy potential is located. Conventional horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWT) need to hold a lot of heavy components – such as the… Read More
Offshore wind developer Deep Wind Offshore enters a partnership with the hydrogen company Hy2gen to produce green hydrogen from offshore wind. – The combination of offshore wind and hydrogen has got massive potential. It is not possible to achieve net zero without green energy carriers, who will need a massive amount of renewable energy, says… Read More
Some pictures show a whale lifeless on a beach. In others, the whale is on fire, jumping from the ocean, as wind turbines loom behind it. The pictures are shocking – intentionally so. Recently they’ve appeared on posters and placards and in social media posts in New South Wales’ Hunter and Illawarra regions, as part… Read More