The 91-metre-long Marmac 306 barge was built in Louisiana by Norwegian cable company Nexans, and is now digging a trench for the subsea export cables which will transmit the electricity generated by Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project to the Brooklyn power grid. It is the very first vessel built in the US to undertake this… Read More
The Trump Administration is rescinding more than 3.5 million acres (1.4 million hectares) of Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) designated for offshore wind development on the US Outer Continental Shelf in yet another blow for the offshore wind industry. The decision was announced on Wednesday by the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the Department… Read More
-Ocean Winds has entered into a key agreement with Siemens Gamesa for the supply of SG 14-236 wind turbines and service maintenance, marking a significant step towards the realization of the offshore BC-Wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea. -The implementation of these advanced technological solutions will be essential in generating zero-emission energy, addressing the… Read More
BOSTON — Officials in Massachusetts’ Nantucket island on Tuesday accused the developer of the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind project of not responding to their safety queries since Donald Trump’s election after a massive wind turbine broke apart last year and its fragments washed up on beaches. Nantucket’s select board gave Vineyard Wind two weeks to respond to… Read More
Offshore wind power could provide far more electricity than the U.S. uses for residential, commercial and industrial purposes. But the federal government has recently stopped approving offshore projects in the ocean. Another option is available, though: the Great Lakes, where we are based as water policy researchers, and where state agencies rather than federal officials are the trustees of the lakes…. Read More
