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The Biden administration on Friday, December 30 held the first offshore oil lease auction in five years for Alaska’s Cook Inlet. The president had pledged to end new leasing for offshore drilling in his administration but as part of a compromise for the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act agreed to conduct three new lease… Read More
This story was produced through a collaboration between KQED in California and Climate Central. Jeff Hunerlach, a building trades union leader based in Humboldt County, doesn’t represent any maritime workers — but he expects a windfall of new jobs for his members from two clusters of wind turbines planned on floating platforms 20 miles off the coast. While the… Read More
As a sign of the continuing strong demand for offshore wind installation capabilities, Eneti announced that it has secured the first contract for its currently under construction vessel two years before it will be delivered. The contract with an unnamed project due to start in early 2025 is for the first of two large installation… Read More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced the availability of its draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed New England Wind energy project offshore Massachusetts. If approved, this proposed 2,600-megawatt project could provide power for more than 900,000 homes. Under the Biden Administration, BOEM has initiated the environmental review of ten projects,… Read More
Eneti Inc. (NYSE:NETI) reports that its Seajacks UK Limited subsidiary has signed a contract with an undisclosed client to transport and install turbines for an offshore wind project commencing in the first half of 2025. The contract will be performed by the first of the company’s two NG16000X Wind Turbine Installation Vessels currently under construction at… Read More
Virginia regulators granted a critical approval Thursday for Dominion Energy’s plans to construct and operate a 176-turbine wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean. The State Corporation Commission effectively signed off on an agreement Dominion reached this fall with the Virginia attorney general and other parties, in which the company agreed to implement several consumer protections… Read More
Offshore wind is making a key contribution to achieving climate change targets around the world. Ingenious solutions are required to keep up with the rapid increase in scale in the offshore wind industry. But how do you keep up with all the ingenious solutions? Van Oord and DOT value sharing knowledge. Together they organise a… Read More
The Danish Business Authority has awarded the Danish Power-to-X flagship project ‘Green Fuels for Denmark’ DKK 600 million as part of Denmark’s participation in the European IPCEI programme. The funding will go towards realising Green Fuels for Denmark’s first phases of 10 MW, 100 MW and 300 MW, respectively. The Green Fuels for Denmark consortium… Read More
Saipem has been awarded new contracts in Guyana and Egypt for a total amount of approximately 1.2 billion USD. The first contract has been awarded by ExxonMobil Guyana, subject to government approvals, for the UARU oil field development project, located in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana at a water depth of around 2,000 meters. The contract… Read More
A consortium of Shell and Eneco, a division of Mitsubishi, won the tender to develop the Netherlands’ next offshore wind farm in an area known as Hollandse Kust (west) located more than 30 miles off the west coast of the Netherlands. Like a second lease awarded last month to RWE for the second lot in… Read More
The government of New Zealand is seeking public feedback on proposals for the development of offshore renewable energy capacity in the country. The proposals were developed by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), and are based on preliminary discussions with offshore wind developers and communities from regions that would host the offshore wind… Read More
Today marks the first-ever U.S. auction of leases to develop commercial-scale floating wind farms, in the deep waters off the West Coast. The live, online auction for five leases — three off California’s central coast and two off its northern coast — has attracted strong interest, and 43 companies from around the world are approved… Read More
The Biden administration is set Tuesday to auction off the first-ever floating offshore wind leases in the Pacific Ocean, setting up a bidding war off the coast of California that could shape the industry for years to come. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is selling five leases off the northern and central coast,… Read More
Offshore wind has historically been dependent on government subsidies, and this is still the case for most projects, although support levels have generally declined over the past 10 years. Westwood said in a recent report that even ‘zero subsidy’ projects usually receive some indirect financial support, often in the form of the grid operator funding… Read More
We have our winners! The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) just announced the provisional winners of the first-ever offshore wind energy lease auction on the West Coast. California North Floating, LLC, a subsidiary of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, and RWE Offshore Wind Holdings, LLC, a German multinational energy company, placed the winning bids for two lease areas… Read More