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The Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) strongly supports the development of a robust offshore wind industry. “As the industry grows in the United States and along the U.S. East Coast, the DCA and its companies are working with state and federal regulators on matters related to dredging operations,” said William P. Doyle, CEO of the… Read More
HAL acquired 100% of the shares in IQIP Holding B.V. (“IQIP”) in March 2023 and has now agreed to sell 40% of IQIP to AvH Growth Capital NV1 (“AvH”) and 20% to MerweOord B.V. (“MerweOord”). MerweOord has the option to increase its shareholding to 33.33% during 2024, which upon exercise would result in HAL, AvH… Read More
The U.S. Department of Defense and Floventis Energy have reached an agreement to enable operation of the state’s first offshore wind power project in waters near Vandenberg Space Force Base in northern Santa Barbara County, California, the US. The mitigation agreement creates a series of de-confliction protocols for CADEMO’s spinning blades, whose tips will reach… Read More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management – the federal agency tasked with leasing federal waters for offshore wind projects – released on July 21 a draft environmental assessment on the potential effects of issuing a federal lease for a floating offshore wind energy research array in federal waters off Monhegan Island. The assessment concludes that… Read More
RWE has designated DeepOcean as a preferred supplier of subsea installation services for the Nordseecluster A offshore wind development. This comprises four wind farm sites in the eastern part of the German North Sea with a planned power output of 1.6 GW project, generated by a minimum of 104 wind turbines. All four wind farms… Read More
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is calling for more transparency from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management as officials work to identify areas for potential offshore wind development off the state’s southern coast. BOEM is identifying which sites may be best to build floating wind farms within two “call areas” covering 1,811 square miles of ocean near… Read More
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