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By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — The first-ever US government auction of leases to build wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico ended with only one tract sold, a blow for advocates cheering on renewable-power development in the region. RWE Offshore US Gulf LLC won a 102,480-acre (41,472-hectare) tract near Lake Charles, Louisiana, for $5.6 million, after just… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 29, 2023 – The American Clean Power Association (ACP) issued this statement by Josh Kaplowitz, ACP Vice President of Offshore Wind, on today’s offshore wind lease auction for the Gulf of Mexico held by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM): “While today’s auction fell short of expectations, it is nonetheless a critical step… Read More
Anyone taking the temperature of local support this summer for wind farms planned off the Long Beach Island coast would know it runs near frigid most days. Still, Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind submitted a bid to the N.J. Board of Public Utilities earlier this month to expand its initial wind farm project, first approved in… Read More
By focusing on fewer business areas and regions, Maersk Supply Service will increase its presence in core markets, increase synergies in its operations and improve profitability. Going forward its two core business areas will be offshore wind and offshore support vessels (OSV). The offshore vessel markets continue to improve, and the energy transition continues to… Read More
Dutch offshore contractor Boskalis has expanded its offshore energy fleet with the acquisition of the 2009-built Apache II pipe-laying vessel from TechnipFMC’s UK arm. The pipe-layer, to be renamed the Boka Ocean, is currently in the Port of Rotterdam being prepared for the modification to a cable-laying vessel. No financial details have been disclosed. According to Boskalis, it… Read More
LAST YEAR, the Biden administration announced an ambitious goal: enough offshore wind to power 10 million homes by 2030. The move would reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, and strengthen energy security. It would also help the United States — which was responsible for just 0.1 percent of the world’s offshore wind capacity last year — catch up with renewable energy… Read More
Federal officials’ announcement of two draft wind energy areas off the Oregon coast poses danger to fisheries, jobs and the state’s coastal environment, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians say. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s proposal “was premature and threatens fisheries, local fishing jobs, and some of Oregon pristine… Read More
10. Offshore Wind Resources Are Abundant: Offshore wind has the potential to deliver large amounts of clean, renewable energy to fulfill the electrical needs of cities along U.S. coastlines. Under conditions that foster offshore wind utilization, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that the technical resource potential for U.S. offshore wind is more than 4,200 gigawatts of… Read More
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”), through Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (“MSIP”), and U.S. maritime, energy and logistics solutions leader Crowley announced today the creation of a new joint venture to advance offshore wind energy solutions for the United States. The joint venture will strategically combine Crowley’s end-to-end maritime and logistics capabilities through the newly created Crowley… Read More
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, a core subsidiary of HD Hyundai, has delivered the world’s first ship equipped with an “AI engineer.” Recently, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering announced that it delivered a 180,000-ton Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) powered bulk carrier equipped with an AI-based automation solution to H-LINE Shipping. The ship was… Read More
Over the next decade, many offshore wind turbines are set to be installed off the coast of the U.S. “Offshore wind is a growing industry in the United States. There’s a lot of excitement, a lot of different companies, developers coming into the space,” says Jeremy Stefek of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Stefek is… Read More
Clean Energy Wire / dpa Electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion announced plans to build power lines to bring electricity from wind turbines in the North Sea to consumers in power-hungry western Germany. The energy corridor, nicknamed “Windader West”, has a transfer capacity of eight gigawatts (GW) to bring offshore wind power to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia by… Read More
Cable giant Prysmian has been chosen to produce and install the cables for two offshore grid connection systems and an underground cable project in Germany in contracts worth €4.5 billion. Transmission System Operator (TSO) Amprion is responsible for getting the grid connection systems installed from the North Sea down to Wehrendorf and Westerkappeln, which means… Read More
As momentum builds for developing offshore wind energy in the Gulf of Maine, a proposed research array of wind turbines is one small-step closer to regulatory approval, after a July determination from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The state of Maine is developing the research array in partnership with New England Aqua Ventus…. Read More
The Biden Administration has not included areas offshore North Carolina in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s plans to lease areas for offshore wind projects off the East Coast due to objections raised by the US. Department of Defense, the Carolina Journal reports. The military has long been opposed to offshore wind projects in North Carolina… Read More