Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri announced its Vard subsidiary has secured an order to design and build a new cable laying vessel for an unnamed 'international shipping company'.The ship will be built entirely by the Vard network, including the main systems and equipment…
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Siem Offshore has secured a medium-term contract for the AHTS Siem Topaz for client Helix Robotics Solutions Inc. in Taiwan. The contract will start during March 2023. The contract has a firm period reaching into the fourth quarter of 2023…
German renewable energy company RWE has selected Siemens Gamesa's offshore wind turbines with recyclable blades for its Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK.Siemens Gamesa said it would supply 44 SG 14-222 DD (14MW) wind turbines with 132 recyclable blades…
Offshore wind is a bad bet due to the complications of installing and maintaining infrastructure at sea and the high cost of transmitting electricity back to shore, NextEra Chief Executive John Ketchum said on Wednesday.'It's very capital intensive…
Barcelona-based floating wind technology firm X1 Wind said Tuesday that its X30 floating wind prototype, installed in the Canary Islands, Spain, has produced its first kWh.The company said the milestone marked the world’s only floating wind platform currently installed with a TLP mooring system…
EDF Renewables, Jan De Nul Group, and Luminus have teamed up to bid for a commercial-scale offshore wind tender for the first phase of the Princess Elisabeth Zone in Belgium.The Princess Elisabeth Zone is an area identified by the federal government…
BP hasn't fallen out of love with renewables. It just wants to have more power. CEO Bernard Looney's pursuit of green energy outstripped all rivals three years ago when he outlined a radical blueprint to move away from fossil fuels. Last month he applied the brakes…
Brazil's state-run oil firm Petrobras and Norwegian energy provider Equinor on Monday said they signed an agreement to evaluate development of seven wind projects offshore Brazil.The proposed projects would deliver a combined capacity of 14…
As we move into March, we note both positive and negative trends developing in the U.S. offshore wind segment.As an indication of the long-term sustainability of the offshore wind industry in the United States, federal agencies are finalizing…
Denmark has resumed its review of two of the 33 offshore wind farm applications it suspended last month over worries of breaching European Union state aid rules, the Energy Agency said on Friday.Denmark, which aims for a fivefold increase in offshore wind power capacity by 2030…
German renewable energy firm RWE has appointed Humber-based firm Hobson & Porter to complete the construction of its new offshore wind operations and maintenance facility known as the Grimsby Hub. The contract includes an extension to the existing…
Development of what would be the world’s largest wind farm off the coast of Britain is in doubt, with developer Orsted saying it needs more support from the government such as tax breaks to proceed with the project after costs soared.The 8 billion pound ($9…
Offshore cable firm NKT has secured three turnkey high-voltage power cable projects for the IJmuiden Ver and Nederwiek offshore wind zones in the Netherlands. The company said the projects have a combined order value of approximately EUR 2 billion…
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, through its subsidiary Vard, has signed a contract with offshore wind vessel operator Edda Wind, for the construction of four Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV). The first two vessels are expected to be delivered in Q1 2025…
Energy and telecom cable firm Prysmian Group has secured contracts worth approximately €1.8 billion (currently around $1.9 billion) in total with the Dutch transmission system operator TenneT for the two grid connection projects IJmuiden Ver…