BSEE Director Kevin Sligh Sr. discusses with Offshore Engineer the myriad of challenges and opportunities ahead as the government agency integrates oversight of the U.S. offshore wind build out, targeting 30GW of offshore wind power by 2030 and another 15GW from floating wind by 2035.
Global Energy Group's (GEG) North Fabrication division has started fabrication of two J-tube frames for the 882MW Moray West offshore wind farm, with a steel cutting at the Port of Nigg, Scotland.The completed J-tube frames will be attached…
EnBW and BP have hired marine consultancy and survey company ABPmer to provide detailed seabed mobility information for the Round 4 Morgan Offshore Wind Ltd and Mona Offshore Wind Ltd farms in the eastern Irish Sea.In addition to delivering…
UK's Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE Catapult) said Tuesday that the biggest offshore wind ‘living lab’ in the world would be created off the Grimsby coast through the development of a 5G Testbed that includes Grimsby Port and the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farm…
A number of recent actions in the United States will better position the nation to meet its short- and long-term offshore wind energy targets, as outlined in the April 2023 U.S. Offshore Wind Report from Intelatus Global Partners.April brings with it the news that the U…
UK-based machine learning and applied AI company Cognitive Business has won a contract to provide a complete package of AI and forecasting to RWE’s Robin Rigg wind farm offshore Scotland.Congitive Business will to provide the wind farm with a suite of AI…
Mercedes-Benz said on Thursday it had signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Spain's Iberdrola for 140 megawatts of wind energy from a Baltic Sea wind park as the automaker looks to make production costs more predictable.Production chief…
Offshore wind installation company Cadeler will transport and install 95 wind turbines at ScottishPower Renewables' East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm, in the southern part of the UK North Sea.The project is set to begin in early 2026 and be completed at the end of 2026…
Baltimore-based offshore wind energy development company US Wind, Inc. announced its plan to form a long-term partnership with Haizea Wind Group Management S.L. to manage and operate Sparrows Point Steel, Maryland’s first permanent offshore wind factory in Baltimore County…
Enbridge Inc. said Tuesday that the French government had selected EDF Renewables and Maple Power to develop the future Normandy offshore wind farm (Centre Manche 1), with an expected installed capacity of 1 GW.EDF Renewables is a subsidiary of the French utility EDF Group…
Dutch offshore crew transfer equipment specialist Ampelmann said Tuesday it had signed six new contracts in the offshore wind market in the United States for 2023, 2024, and 2025.The contracts set for 2023 have been secured for work on two new offshore wind farms being built off New England's coast…
Wind turbine maker GE Renewable Energy has selected Eastgate Engineering, based in Billingham, Teesside, UK, to provide mechanical and electrical activities for the pre-assembly of the towers and nacelles for the Haliade-X turbines to be used at the giant Dogger Bank offshore wind farm…
Helix Energy Solutions' robotics division Helix Robotics Solutions said Monday it had won a trenching services contract with 'a leading renewables cable installation contractor.'The contract is for the trenching of inter-array and export cables as part of a 640MW wind farm offshore Taiwan…
A record 680 gigawatts (GW) of wind energy capacity is expected to be installed by 2027 but policymakers need to ensure supply chain bottlenecks do not slow growth to avoid missing climate targets, according to an industry report released on Monday…
The French government has selected Energies du Méridien, a new offshore wind consortium comprising Corio Generation and Qair, to take part in upcoming offshore wind project tenders totaling about 2.5 GW.French Directorate General for Energy…