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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
Each vessel will be outfitted with two azimuth thrusters and two retractable azimuth thrusters and a tunnel thruster Brunvoll has received an order for the delivery of propulsion and manoeuvring packages for Purus Wind’s new Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV). The delivery is for two vessels, with two additional vessels as an option. Each vessel… Read More
Initial survey work will soon begin to support offshore wind development in the Carolina Long Bay lease area, off North Carolina. Due to the close proximity of the lease area to calving habitat of the endangered North Atlantic right whale, NRDC is pleased to see that these offshore wind planning surveys will be undertaken with protective… Read More
Jan De Nul Group’s newest crane vessel, Les Alizés, kicks off her maiden assignment by installing the first of 107 monopile foundations for the construction of Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 wind farms in Germany. Delivered early 2023, Les Alizés arrived in the Dutch Eemshaven at the end of June, where the… Read More
Three new possible offshore wind sites have been chosen for development off the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia coasts. Totaling 356,550 acres, the Wind Energy Areas are expected to support 4-8 gigawatts of energy production–enough to power nearly two million homes by some estimates. The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) says the locations were… Read More
Vattenfall, a Swedish energy company, has for years been doing preliminary work for what would be one of the world’s largest offshore wind complexes, in the North Sea off eastern England. Now, there are questions about whether this project will ever be built. Last month, Vattenfall said it would halt the first of three phases… Read More
Known as “America’s Greatest Family Resort,” this beachside city now has a new distinction: It has become the epicenter of opposition to wind energy projects off New Jersey and the East Coast. Residents of Ocean City and surrounding Cape May County, helped by an outside group opposed to renewable energy, are mobilizing to stop Ocean… Read More
There will be another offshore wind turbine farm off the coast of New Jersey. New Jersey’s Board has approved a project located off the shore of Long Beach Island of Public Utilities. On Friday, energy companies RWE from Essen, Germany, and National Grid based in New York made a groundbreaking announcement about their joint venture… Read More
About 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, a massive structure emerges from the Atlantic Ocean. Nearby it will have the biggest turbines in the Atlantic, as tall as the Washington Monument with the Statue of Liberty stacked on top. It’s the first offshore power substation in the United States and in October it is… Read More
NASH Maritime begins collecting data to undertaken navigation risk assessment Southampton: Specialist shipping and navigation consultancy, NASH Maritime, is currently undertaking vessel traffic surveys in the North Sea off the Aberdeenshire coast, northeast of Fraserburgh and in the outer Moray Firth. The data collected by the surveys will be used to inform the navigation risk assessment… Read More
In May, ships started arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts carrying offshore wind turbines taller than a football field is long. These turbines are now being installed 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard at the United States’ first utility-scale offshore wind farm. 62 turbines, capable of powering over 400,000 homes, will provide pollution-free electricity to… Read More
The costs associated with U.S. offshore wind projects have risen by 57% since 2021 due to inflation in components and labor costs, as well as rising interest rates, leading to a large number of canceled or renegotiated deals. The recent cancellations of major offshore wind projects have erased billions of dollars in planned spending and… Read More
America’s first major offshore wind farm is coming into focus on the wavy horizon off Massachusetts. An electric substation the length of a football field looms three stories above the water. Six yellow T-shaped poles protrude from the waves in a line along the ocean. They will serve as foundations for the project’s first turbines… Read More