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Floating Wind and the Taming of Subsea Spaghetti

Oct 31, 2024

Preparing for industrialization, the floating offshore wind industry is tackling its unique mooring and cabling challenges.The idea of keeping floating offshore wind platforms in place using dynamic positioning has been considered. The trouble is: it could take up to 80% of the electricity generated by the turbine to do it.So, as Maersk Supply Service said a few years back: In a field of 100 turbines with 4-5 mooring lines each…

Gazelle Wind Power Scoops $12M to Advance Floating Wind Technology

Nov 13, 2024

Gazelle Wind Power, a Dublin-based developer of foundations for floating offshore wind farms, has secured investment of $12.1 million to accelerate the development of its floating wind technology.The funding round for Gazelle Wind Power was led by Indico Capital Partners…

TechnipFMC and Prysmian Form Floating Wind Partnership

Nov 04, 2024

TechnipFMC and Prysmian have signed a collaboration agreement to further accelerate the global development of floating offshore wind to help meet growing demand for renewable electricity.The collaboration agreement brings together the technologies…

Acteon and Applied Fiber to Optimize Mooring Solutions for Oil and Gas, Floating Wind

Oct 30, 2024

Acteon, through its moorings and anchors business line, InterMoor, and Applied Fiber have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on mooring solutions for various global offshore markets, from oil and gas to gigawatt-scale floating offshore wind…

Birds Fly Safe as Floating Wind Turbine Keeps Spinning Off Norway

Oct 24, 2024

After more than years of continuous monitoring, no collisions between the TetraSpar floating offshore wind turbine and birds have been recorded at the deployment site at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre), off the coast of Norway.Norwegian…

France Soon to Launch 9.2GW Offshore Wind Tender

Oct 18, 2024

France will launch tenders in coming months for two fixed and three floating wind farms totalling 9.2 gigawatts (GW), the energy ministry said in a decision published on Friday.The projects will be built off the coast of Fecamp, northwest France…

Dutch Engineering Firms Present Floating Offshore Substation Concept

Oct 11, 2024

Nevesbu, together with Iv, has developed a patented concept for a floating offshore substation (FOSS), which has already been tested at model scale at the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) in the Netherlands.The concept developed…

South Korea’s 1.1GW Floating Wind Farm Gets Grid Connection Clearance

Oct 10, 2024

KF Wind floating wind project, being developed by Aker Horizons majority-owned Mainstream Renewable Power and Ocean Winds, has secured a transmission service agreement (TSA) with Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).The agreement covers the first phase of the project…

Schottel’s Swift Anchor Tech Could Cut Floating Wind LCoE for 12%, Study Finds

Oct 09, 2024

Schottel Marine Technologies has released a report highlighting the potential of its Swift Anchor technology, which found it could deliver up to 12% of Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE) savings for floating wind farms.The study was carried out…

Industry Partnership to Deliver SOV Tailor-Made for Floating Wind Farms

Oct 09, 2024

North Star has launched a partnership which includes MO4, Principle Power, SMST, Vard, and Voith Group to fast-track the development of high-performance operations and maintenance ships tailored for floating offshore wind farms.The companies…

Acteon and TAISEI Join Forces for Floating Wind Projects in Japan

Oct 08, 2024

Acteon, the international  marine energy and infrastructure services business, has signed a non-exclusive memorandum of understanding (MoU) with TAISEI Corporation that sets out how the companies will use each other’s skills and services for floating offshore wind projects in Japan…

Three Floating Wind Projects Up for Testing at Norway’s METCentre

Oct 08, 2024

Three new floating offshore wind projects have signed contracts with Norway's test facility METCentre to trial new technologies aimed at reducing costs of floating offshore wind.The companies that have signed with METCentre will demonstrate floaters with 15 + MW turbines…

Norway to Offer $3.3B Floating Wind Subsidy

Oct 07, 2024

The Norwegian government proposed on Monday to offer up to 35 billion Norwegian crowns ($3.29 billion) in subsidy payments in the country's first commercial floating wind power tender, in line with a compromise reached earlier this year.'Norway…

Developers Seek Onshore Consent for Salamander Floating Wind Farm

Oct 02, 2024

Salamander Offshore Wind Farm, a project being developed by a joint venture between Ørsted, Simply Blue Group and Subsea7, has submitted its consent applications for the onshore aspects of its proposed 100 MW floating wind development.The applications…

BOEM Postpones Oregon’s Offshore Wind Lease Sale

Sep 30, 2024

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has decided to delay the offshore wind energy auction planned for potential lease areas offshore Oregon due to insufficient bidder interest at this time.On August 29, 2024, the Department of the Interior…

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