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The New York City-based accelerator, Offshore Wind Innovation Hub, has announced the first round of start-up companies selected to receive support to develop innovative ideas in the field of offshore wind. The six winners make up the inaugural accelerator programme cohort. They were selected from eleven finalists participating in a competition in May 2023, and… Read More
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) announced it has selected a transmission project to meet the Long Island Offshore Wind Export Public Policy Transmission Need (Long Island Need). The selected transmission development, Propel Alternate Solution 5, will ultimately benefit energy consumers by providing transmission capability to deliver at least 3000MW from offshore wind sites…. Read More
A bill introduced by Gov. Janet Mills that would create visual impact standards for future offshore wind projects has passed the Maine Legislature and is on its way to her desk. Advocates are describing the amended version of the bill as “groundbreaking,” as it now includes requirements that any port facilities that are built to support offshore… Read More
The 114th and final wind turbine was installed recently at Seagreen Wind Farm. A joint venture between SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies, Seagreen is located about 17 miles of Scotland’s Angus coast. 76 of the 114 Vestas V164-10.0 MW turbines are now energised at the site, which is located 27km from the Angus coast, now producing… Read More
Ørsted, the world’s leading developer of offshore wind farms, has designed and developed the first uncrewed surface vessel (USV) in the industry for offshore met-ocean measurement campaigns. The measurement data will help lower uncertainties in the expected annual energy production for new offshore wind farms. Ørsted, who has patented the USV concept, sees enormous potential… Read More
Cable-laying vessel Isaac Newton, multipurpose vessel Adhémar de Saint-Venant and a remotely-controlled cable burying vehicle of consortium Jan De Nul Group-LS Cable & System have completed the installation of the second marine cable for the offshore wind farm ‘west Alpha’. In recent weeks, more than 60 kilometres of cable was laid and buried in the… Read More
New York’s first offshore wind farm has reached a significant milestone with the start of offshore construction. Governor Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that South Fork Wind project has marked its first “steel in the water” with the installation of the project’s first monopile foundation. In the coming days, crews will install the project’s U.S.-built offshore… Read More
The Gulf of Maine, running from Cape Cod in the south to Nova Scotia in the north, has tremendous potential for wind power. Its development will play a major role in any plan that effectively moves the U.S. toward meetings its clean energy goals and staving off the worst of the climate crisis. How best… Read More
The largest offshore jack-up installation vessel ever built, Voltaire, has just arrived in the port of Able Seaton, UK. Voltaire of Jan De Nul Group was delivered end 2022. Since then she has been undertaking final preparations for her very first assignment: the construction of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm phases A, B and C…. Read More
The marine restoration project ‘BioReef’ aims to establish one or more biogenic reefs of European flat oysters and horse mussels in Danish waters. The project is part of the global partnership between Ørsted and WWF to advance offshore wind with a net-positive impact on the ocean. Over the last century, there has been a drastic… Read More
Gravity-based structures may offer a porpoise and dolphin-friendly construction alternative to traditional pile-driven wind turbine foundations, new research suggests. Marine scientists from Newcastle University investigated short- and long-term impacts of this new wind turbine installation method on cetaceans off Blyth, Northumberland. The response of dolphins and harbor porpoises was investigated using cetacean echolocation recorders over a three-year period,… Read More
In just about four hours, the first monopile tower in Vineyard Wind‘s offshore wind farm was installed in shallow continental shelf waters south of Martha’s Vineyard last week. Work on putting in the foundational structures for the 800-megawatt project — touted as the nation’s pioneer commercial-scale, offshore wind farm — began June 7. The lease area is located about 15 miles south… Read More
A new OWIC report has set out that the UK offshore wind sector is expected to have in excess of 100,000 workers by the end of the decade. But that means it needs to attract and retain 70,000 people – 10,000 people per year on average – up from its current workforce of 32,000. The… Read More
The first tests forming part of research aiming to support offshore wind to expand in a sustainable way have been completed by Bangor University and consultancy firm HR Wallingford. The tests are the first step to understanding the relationship between flow around wind turbines, and the impact on seabed, seabed animals, and the seabirds which… Read More
In the US, state-level offshore wind procurement targets currently total 80.7 GW, and the Biden administration implemented a countrywide goal of 30 GW by 2030. Additionally, coastal states — particularly along the mid- and northern Atlantic Ocean — boast strong offshore wind resources, with nine states averaging 100-meter wind speeds above 8 meters per second…. Read More