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Oct 27 (Reuters) - Britain is offering a smaller budget for offshore wind in its next auction round to spur investment in renewable power capacity, government documents showed on Monday, with one analyst saying the country will struggle to meet its clean power targets. Documents released on Monday showed the next auction round will have... Continue Reading →
Oct. 27 (offshoreWIND.biz) TGS, an energy data and intelligence provider based in Norway and the US, and EOLOS, a floating LiDAR technology provider based in Spain, have partnered to offer wind and metocean measurement campaigns in Brazil. Within the partnership, TGS will manage client contracts, campaign design, deployment and operations, while EOLOS will supply its... Continue Reading →
Oct 22 (Reuters) - U.S. shipbuilders and port operators are getting hit in the fallout from President Donald Trump’s campaign to wipe out the offshore wind industry, suffering hundreds of millions of dollars in lost government support, vanishing vessel orders, and an uncertain future for the billions of dollars' worth of investments. The impact represents an unintended... Continue Reading →
Ocy. 22 (OE) Singapore’s Seatrium has received a notice of arbitration from Maersk Offshore Wind’s affiliate, regarding the dispute over the termination of a $475 million contract for a nearly completed wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) originally intended for Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project in the United States. The arbitration notice, received on October 21,... Continue Reading →
Oct. 22 (OE) Ocean Winds, the 50-50 joint venture between Portugal’s EDP Renováveis and France’s Engie, has agreed to sell a 20.25% stake in its 500 MW Îles d’Yeu et Noirmoutier offshore wind project in France to Allianz Global Investors for $232 million. Located in Vendée on France’s Atlantic coast, the Îles d’Yeu et Noirmoutier... Continue Reading →
Oct. 21 - SMST has secured a new contract from Norwegian shipbuilder VARD for the delivery of two sets of mission equipment to be installed on an additional two of North Star’s newbuild Service Operation Vessels (SOVs). These vessels are part of a long-term charter agreement between shipowner and operator North Star and energy company... Continue Reading →
Oct. 17 (offshoreWIND.biz) Iberdrola has begun exploring the sale of 49 per cent of its East Anglia Two offshore wind farm project in the UK, according to a report by the Spanish media outlet Cinco Días citing unnamed sources. The renewable energy developer has already engaged Bank of America and BBVA as financial advisors to assist with... Continue Reading →
Oct. 17 (offshoreWIND.biz) The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator (CNSOER) has issued a Call for Information and opened a pre-qualification window for the first offshore wind auction to be launched in the country. Announced on 16 October, the invitations to the industry follow the CNSOER receiving a joint strategic direction from the governments of Canada... Continue Reading →
Oct 16 (Reuters) - Colombia received a bid from a subsidiary of Denmark's Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), to develop a project in the South American country's first offshore wind energy round, the head of its hydrocarbons agency said on Thursday. Orlando Velandia, who heads Colombia's National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), said CIP subsidiary CI GMF Cooperatief... Continue Reading →
Oct 10 (Reuters) - Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Ming Yang Smart Energy will invest up to 1.5 billion pounds ($2 billion) to build a wind turbine manufacturing facility in Scotland which could create up to 1,500 jobs, it said on Friday. Britain is seeking to scale up renewable power to help meet its climate targets... Continue Reading →
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