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Greencoat Renewables has agreed to buy 22.5% of the Butendiek offshore wind farm in Germany from Marguerite Pantheon. The wind farm is located in Germany's exclusive economic zone in the North Sea and consists of 80 Siemens Gamesa 3.6 MW turbines that have been operational since 2015. Butendiek benefits from a fixed-price FiT until December... Continue Reading →
(OE) Offshore wind farm developer Eolus has received research permits for two offshore wind farms in the Bothnian Sea. The company said these were important steps towards offshore wind production in Finland. The Finnish Government gave consent regarding research permits to Eolus for the two offshore wind projects, Wellamo and Tuulia, in the Finnish Bothnian... Continue Reading →
Hywind Scotland, the first floating offshore wind farm in the world, has been running for five years now. It was put into service in 2017. Located off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland, it is the world’s first floating offshore wind farm, and, according to operator Equinor, it is also the world’s best-performing offshore wind farm,... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Japan has resumed public auctions for offshore wind power projects under revised rules aimed at encouraging a wider range of operators and accelerating the development of infrastructure, the industry and land ministries said on Wednesday. The government has launched the second major round of auctions to select operators for four new areas capable of... Continue Reading →
(CN) The United States has long hovered on the cusp of an offshore wind energy boom, even as the industry has soared worldwide. After many fits and starts, only seven turbines are spinning off the U.S. coast, representing 0.1 percent of the total global capacity of offshore wind farms. Now that’s all starting to change. With companies hitting major... Continue Reading →
(OE) Ireland's Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan TD, on Friday issued Maritime Area Consents (MACs) to the first phase of seven offshore wind projects. The government said the MACs granting represented a significant milestone in the delivery of offshore wind in Ireland "The award of MACs ensures that only projects with... Continue Reading →
EGS has completed an offshore geophysical and hydrographic survey for Ørsted’s Skipjack Wind offshore wind project off the coast of Maryland’s Delmarva Peninsula, USA. EGS was contracted by Ørsted to conduct, process, and interpret high-resolution geophysical and hydrographic survey data of the nearshore sections of the export cable routes for Skipjack Wind, currently in development.... Continue Reading →
DEME Offshore has picked Tekmar Group to supply Cable Protection Systems (CPS) for the third phase of Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. Under the contract signed with DEME Offshore, Tekmar will design, manufacture, and supply 172 CPS for Dogger Bank C. The first systems for the project’s third phase are expected to be... Continue Reading →
Marubeni said Thursday it had started commercial operation at the Noshiro Port offshore wind farm in Japan on December 22, 2022, based on the feed-in tariff program for renewable energy. Marubeni Corporation has been implementing this first utility-scale offshore wind power project in Japan at Akita Port and Noshiro Port in Akita Prefecture, through the... Continue Reading →
RWE and Harbour Energy have established a partnership to investigate options to capture, transport and store CO2 from RWE’s gas-fired power stations via Viking CCS, Harbour Energy’s CO2 transport and storage network. The partnership is expected to lead to the transportation and storage of captured CO2 from RWE’s 1.7 GW Staythorpe Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power station... Continue Reading →
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