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Equinor and BP have announced the launch of a New York-based Offshore Wind Innovation Hub aimed at facilitating partnerships with start-ups that bring new technological solutions to the rapidly growing U.S. offshore wind industry. The initiative springs from a new three-year partnership between Equinor, the Urban Future Lab (UFL) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering,… Read More
The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a full Operation and Maintenance (O&M) agreement with Termocabo S.A. The agreement covers a 48 MW power plant in the city of Cabo de Santo Agostinho, in the northeast of Brazil. The agreement was signed in April 2022, and has been in effect from 1 June. Wärtsilä had an… Read More
As countries around the world implement ambitious environmental goals, adoption of renewable energy is setting new records. New research from The Renewables Consulting Group (RCG), an ERM Group company, finds that global offshore wind development capacity grew by a whopping 89 percent in 2021. About 200 GW of new offshore wind projects were announced in established… Read More
The Indian government on Thursday announced the first steps in developing offshore wind power and outlined a strategy and timetable for starting auctions. The first auctions are expected in the next three to four months with an initial strategy outlined for the development of at least 10 to 12 GW of offshore wind turbines. “During… Read More
Deploying ‘Orion’, the newest member of the DEME fleet and the most innovative vessel in the offshore wind industry, DEME Offshore has successfully installed the first XXL monopile at Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany. DEME’s revolutionary, floating DP3 offshore installation vessel is set to install the 28 giant monopiles, which at 110… Read More
June 8 (Renewables Now) – Danish energy major Ørsted A/S (CPH:ORSTED) announced on Wednesday that it has opened an office in Madrid with a view to pursue development of gigawatts of land-based renewables in Spain. Ørsted said it had set up four partnerships with locally-based and geographically scattered companies — Glide Energy, Rolwind, Arba Energias… Read More
The Business Network for Offshore Wind today announced the launch of the U.S. Offshore Wind Pathway Program, a new partnership with the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency (KOSME) designed to support the entry of Korean-based offshore wind companies in the fast-growing U.S. offshore wind market. Starting this month, the Network will host ten companies, selected… Read More
Professor Cale Jaffe ’01 and his students at the University of Virginia School of Law have gone tilting at — actually, tilting for — windmills off the coast of Virginia Beach. The Sierra Club asked Jaffe’s Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic to joust with multiple parties before the Virginia State Corporation Commission to support and improve an enormous… Read More
Fourteen miles off the coast of New York, vast fields of offshore wind turbines will soon be installed in the Atlantic Ocean. Spurred by a recent $4.37 billion federal auction of more than 488,000 acres of offshore leases in the New York Bight, these wind farms will help New York realize its 2019 mandate to generate 70% of its… Read More
Continuing the momentum to achieve the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030, the Department of the Interior today announced the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct an environmental review of the first proposed wind energy project offshore Maryland. This week, the Department will publish a… Read More
Denmark-based energy company Ørsted has developed a technique to support coral reefs by growing corals on offshore wind turbine foundations, and plans to run a proof-of-concept trial in Taiwan in June. Ørsted noted that coral reefs provide habitat for an estimated 32% of all marine species and benefit 1 billion people worldwide, directly or indirectly,… Read More
Harland & Wolff has been awarded an initial contract worth approximately £8.5 million with Cory for the fabrication of eleven barges. The barges will be used by Cory to transport London’s recyclable and non-recyclable waste on the River Thames. Fabrication will take place at Harland & Wolff’s Belfast site, with first steel being cut within… Read More
Harland & Wolff has acquired the former HMS Atherstone from the Ministry of Defence (MOD). The former HMS Atherstone is a mine hunting class vessel that is no longer in Service. Harland & Wolff has acquired this vessel with a view to refurbishing it for non-military uses, discussions for which have already commenced with interested… Read More
The rapid growth in the offshore power generation sector is creating new opportunities for the creative reuse of offshore skills and vessels from the oil and gas sector which has been in a long-term downturn. As an example of the opportunities, a 2021 startup for the offshore sector, Norwind Offshore, working with Vard has repurposed… Read More
Jan De Nul Group ordered a high-end crane simulator covering its two Next Generation Offshore Installation Vessels Voltaire and Les Alizés, soon to be delivered. The crane simulator will be based on real physics and the actual vessel models, enabling Jan De Nul to train its crewmembers and realistically simulate complex offshore installations in a… Read More