The U.S. Department of the Interior will reform its regulations for the development of wind energy facilities on the country's outer continental shelf to help meet crucial climate goals, it said in a statement on Thursday.The proposed rule changes…
Bureau Veritas, a testing, inspection, and certification company, will work with the Korean Register (KR) to certify Bada Energy's Gray Whale 3 floating offshore wind farm project in Ulsan, South Korea.Gray Whale 3 floating offshore wind farm is a product of a partnership between Corio Generation…
Simon Møkster Shipping said Wednesday it had secured a contract extension for its Stril Server offshore vessel, working at the Hywind Tampen floating wind project in the Norwegian section of the North Sea.'Equinor exercises all options for the Stril Server working on the Hywind Tampen project…
The drivers for global offshore wind growth look good for 2023. Global offshore wind is forecast to grow from over 60 GW at the end of 2022 to 240 GW by 2030 and over 410 GW by 2035. But the sunny outlook must be balanced with some building dark clouds…
American Offshore Energy (AOE) has this week announced novel patents in the floating wind turbine industry including a vertical axis wind turbine which, the company says, can be deployed quickly, and even submerged in the wake of a hurricane…
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), located in Orkney, Scotland, has completed the concept design for a new 100 MW floating offshore wind test and demonstration site. The ocean energy test facility operator is seeking to secure a lease for a site ~20 km west of Orkney…
The Norwegian energy industry giant Equinor has awarded international engineering firm COWI a contract to serve as “Owner’s Engineer” for the Firefly floating wind project offshore Ulsan, South Korea. The Firefly project is located 70 km off…
Denmark's Maersk Supply Service and renewable energy pioneer Stiesdal Offshore have entered into a strategic partnership to offer combined solutions to this fast-growing sector within floating offshore wind.The companies say they intend to combine…
The Celtic Sea Cluster, formed last year Welsh Government and Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership to help drive market creation for floating wind, has now launched its new Regional Strategy, outlining how Wales and South…
Norwegian oil and gas major Equinor on Monday said it was interested in developing a 'gigawatt scale' floating offshore wind project off the coast of Britain in the Celtic Sea in connection with an upcoming seabed leasing round. The project…
Floating wind developer BlueFloat Energy has selected K2 Management as owner's engineer for the development of its first offshore floating wind project in Taiwan ahead of the upcoming round three market auction.With a planned capacity of 1 GW…
Norwegian offshore energy engineering and construction company Aker Solutions has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the oil firm OKEA for the electrification of OKEA's Draugen offshore platform. The Draugen oil field sits in about 250 meters of water…
The U.S. government's first-ever sale of offshore wind development rights off the coast of California drew $757.1 million in high bids, mainly from European companies seeking a foothold in the U.S. wind-power industry's expansion to the Pacific Ocean…
Mainstream Renewable Power and Ocean Winds said Wednesday they had signed a seabed lease agreement with Crown Estate Scotland to the value of £36million for the development of a 1.8 GW floating offshore wind farm off Shetland.The companies were…
Japan’s electricity utility Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is set to acquire the Scottish floating wind specialist Flotation Energy. This is TEPCO's first investment in overseas wind power.Floation Energy founders Allan MacAskill and Lord Nicol Stephen developed Kincardine…
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