The UK government has announced GBP 380 million (around €450 million) of investment in offshore wind in its Autumn Budget and Spending Review. Up to GBP 230 million (around €272.5 million) of this will be available from GBP 1.4 billion (around €1.66 billion) that the government is allocating for the
RWE Renewables has awarded RINA with a contract for Cable Verification Services & OCP (Offshore Converter Platform) construction site quality assurance services for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. The offshore wind farm’s 220-kilometre export cable route will house ±320 kV high-voltag
In the Market updates live broadcast, we hear from industry experts from Japan and France about the current local offshore wind situation and some project updates.
Ørsted and Eversource, the developers behind the Sunrise Wind project in New York who awarded Siemens Energy and Aker Solutions with a contract to deliver the offshore wind farm’s high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system, said that this would be the first offshore wind project in the US to use the
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) have entered into an agreement to further expand cooperation on a range of globally relevant investments, including projects contributing to carbon neutrality in the European Union, such as subsea interconnectors,
Wind energy pioneer as everyone likes to call him, Chris Westra, gives a talk described as ‘enthusiastic’ about his life in the industry, how the market had developed, and what will the future of offshore wind be in the next decades.
“The ambition is clear, we need to go to the sustainable energy, carbon-neutral future, but there are many roads to that at the moment. Well, all the signs tell us that we need to speed up,” David de Jager, director of the GROW Offshore Wind cooperation told OEEC 2021 host Eva Brouwer in an intervie
A joint venture between Spanish companies BlueFloat Energy and Sener has revealed plans for one of the first floating offshore wind farms in Andalusia, Spain. The project is planned to have an installed capacity of 300 MW and to potentially power green hydrogen production. Called Mar de Ágata, the f
Italian authorities have received an application seeking concession for a site in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of Ravenna, where the Italian renewable energy developer AGNES, Saipem, and QINT’X plan to develop an offshore energy hub. The hub comprises two offshore wind farms, a floating photovolt
JDR’s Global Services Asset has finalised the mobilisation of tooling, equipment and consumables to support the test and termination campaign on Hornsea Two offshore wind farm.
Vattenfall has opened a tender for offshore wind geotechnical and geophysical site investigation works, looking to enter into framework agreements with multiple contractors. Site investigation operations will be carried out during the development/construction phase of the developer’s offshore wind f
The Municipality of Ustka has signed an agreement for setting up service facilities for two large-scale offshore wind farms at the Port of Ustka.
French energy major TotalEnergies has opened its UK Offshore Wind Hub in Aberdeen, Scotland. The Hub was opened by Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies. It will be part of the company’s existing offshore operations centre in Aberdeen and will enable the transition of staff from oil an
Offshore wind developer Ørsted plans to launch a major tender related to the development of two wind farms with a combined capacity of 2.5 GW this November.
