Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced the establishment of the Virginia Offshore Wind Supplier Development Grant, a new program designed to incentivize smaller existing Virginia manufacturers to enter into the production of goods to support the offshore wind industry in Virginia, as well as the broader U.S. offshore wind market. The program, created by the Virginia… Read More
“In New Jersey, it’s go hard or go home,” Gov. Phil Murphy Tweeted after signing an executive order to up the state’s offshore wind goals by nearly 50% last September. Perhaps, the governor didn’t consider the fact that those in the state who question the perils and efficacy of offshore wind turbines are playing by the same saying…. Read More
A more holistic project approach indicates that the Gulf of Mexico may actually be among the most appealing areas in terms of costs, available maritime and industrial resources, and solutions for minimising physical and environmental constraints. Scene-setter In February, the proposed sale notice for three lease areas proximate to Louisiana and Texas were released by… Read More
Skyborn, a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), and state-owned Metsähallitus have entered into a reservation agreement, granting five years of exclusive rights to develop a 2 GW offshore wind farm in Finland. Development work on the project called Pooki is scheduled to start as early as August 2023. The wind farm is planned… Read More
In 2024, the world’s first green fuels vessel for offshore wind operations will launch off the UK East Coast, as the result of a ground-breaking agreement between Ørsted and ESVAGT. Now the two companies are expanding their partnership on green offshore operations by signing an agreement for a second green service operation vessel. Ørsted and… Read More
PAULSBORO, New Jersey — The Biden administration has approved the largest offshore wind energy project yet in US waters, to be located off the coast of New Jersey where officials say it could power hundreds of thousands of homes with clean energy. The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced Wednesday it approved the Ocean… Read More
A company approved to build New Jersey’s third offshore wind farm says it, too, wants government financial incentives, saying its project and the jobs it would create are “at risk” without the additional help. Atlantic Shores issued a statement Friday, shortly after New Jersey lawmakers approved a tax break for Danish wind developer Orsted, which has approval… Read More
The first monopile for Ocean Wind 1, New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm, has been built at a New Jersey manufacturing facility – and Cape May County isn’t happy about any of it. New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm July 6 update: An even bigger milestone occurred yesterday – the US Department of the Interior announced the… Read More
PGS was awarded a large offshore wind farm site characterization contract in the U.S. by a renewable energy company. PGS will use the Sanco Swift, which is rigged as an offshore wind site characterization vessel. Mobilization is scheduled for August 2023 and acquisition is expected to complete in February 2024, with total project duration of approximately… Read More
The Danish Energy Agency is today publishing the draft procurement material for the upcoming procurement of 6 GW and 3 GW of offshore wind at Energy Island Bornholm, with the option to overplant. The procurement material is subject to a market dialogue with the relevant market players, which will take place over the coming months…. Read More
To reach net zero, the world may need as many 200,000 offshore wind turbines generating 2,000 gigawatts (GW) of energy. To put this in context, by the end of 2022, 63 GW of offshore wind capacity had been installed worldwide. Within the next 28 years, the offshore wind energy sector needs to expand so that it is capable of… Read More
Ground was broken June 29 at Fairwinds Landing in Norfolk, Virginia for what will be one of the first dedicated offshore wind energy operations support facilities in North America. Plans include enhanced project cargo and heavy lift handling capabilities. The first part of the Fairwinds development will be an offshore wind monitoring and coordination center (MCC) at… Read More
DEME announces that the revolutionary offshore installation vessel ‘Green Jade’ officially joins the fleet today. The momentous occasion was celebrated during a festive naming ceremony, held at the Kaohsiung shipyard in Taiwan. ‘Green Jade’ is the second vessel of its kind to join DEME’s fleet, following the successful deployment of the offshore installation vessel ‘Orion’, which… Read More
Jan De Nul Group, in partnership with Hellenic Cables, has been awarded by TenneT the turnkey delivery of three HVAC offshore grid connection cables for the offshore wind farms to be developed in zones N-3.7 & N-3.8 in Germany. These cables will connect the wind farms to the DolWin kappa convertor station, from which HVDC… Read More
As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it will initiate the environmental review of a proposed 2,430-megawatt wind energy project offshore Massachusetts. This week, BOEM will publish a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an… Read More