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GM Invests in Novel Offshore Wind Technology

Norway

Wind Catching Systems, the developer of the novel wall-shaped floating wind turbine platform, has secured $10 million in an early venture capital investment round led by GM Ventures – the VC arm of General Motors. GM, a towering icon of internal combustion engine technology, intends to have an all-electric product lineup by 2035 and has… Read More

Bourbon Expands Offshore Renewable Energy Focus with Wind Maintenance

France

France’s Bourbon group is partnering with Wilhelmsen’s start-up Integrated Wind Solutions to provide services for the commissioning and maintenance of offshore wind farms in France’s developing renewable energy market. Bourbon group which has been a leader in the offshore oil and gas marine services sector since the 1990s is the latest example of offshore companies… Read More

Chantiers de l’Atlantique Seeks to Expand Offshore Engineering Work

France

French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique is working to expand the offshore engineering portion of its business to offset the continuing lull in future cruise ship orders. Today they announced an agreement with Lhyfe, a pioneering company in renewable green hydrogen, to develop offshore projects tied to Lhyfe’s renewable green hydrogen production platforms. Lhyfe already has… Read More

Netherlands Plans Offshore Wind Auctions to Double Capacity to 21 GW

Netherlands

The Dutch government confirmed its plans to double the Netherlands offshore wind energy generation capacity. When completed the new projects added to the currently installed and projects under development would represent approximately 75 percent of the country’s current energy consumption. The new wind farm plans are part of the Netherlands’ commitment with its neighboring countries… Read More

Equinor and BP launch NY Offshore Wind Innovation Hub

NY, United States

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

Wärtsilä performance guarantees will enable Brazilian power plant to meet its power purchase agreement obligations

Brazil

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

In Record Offshore Wind Market, Brazil Leads the Pack for New Projects

Brazil

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

India plans first offshore wind power auctions to reach 12 GW

India

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

DEME’s next generation vessel ‘Orion’ successfully installs first monopile at Arcadis Ost

Belgium

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

Orsted Opens Office in Spain to Target Renewables Market

Spain

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

Network Partners with Korean-Based Companies to Promote Offshore Wind Development in the United States

MD, United States

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

Environmental Clinic Joins Proposed Agreement with Dominion on Offshore Wind

VA, United States

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

Giant wind turbine ports prepare to transform NYC’s coastal woodlands

NY, United States

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

Department of the Interior Announces Environmental Review of First Proposed Wind Energy Project Offshore Maryland

MD, United States

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

Ørsted to trial growing corals on offshore wind turbine foundations

Taiwan

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

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