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(Bloomberg) Electricite de France SA is betting that wind turbines at sea — already the size of skyscrapers — will be about 50% more powerful at the start of the next decade when it completes the country’s largest offshore farm. The French utility expects even larger machines to contribute to higher output when it builds... Continue Reading →
(OE) UK-based offshore wind developer SSE Renewables and Asia Pacific-focused renewable energy developer Equis have formed a joint venture to bid for a feasibility license to develop, construct, own, and operate an offshore wind farm project in Australia. The wind farm site is in Australia’s first Federal Government-declared offshore wind zone of Gippsland, near the... Continue Reading →
Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables has been selected by the European Commission to take part in delivering the Infinite project aimed at accelerating industrial-scale floating wind. The Infinite project includes the deployment and testing of a 4.8 MW floating wind pilot system at a 100-meter water depth and the creation of a disruptive and environment-friendly concrete... Continue Reading →
(OE) Gazelle Wind Power, a Dublin-based company that develops foundations for floating offshore wind farms, has partnered up with renewable energy developer WAM Horizon to accelerate the development of a pilot plant using Gazelle’s floating wind platform in Aguçadoura, Portugal. WAM will provide Gazelle with strategic advisory to successfully implement this project. Portugal-based WAM Horizon... Continue Reading →
(OE) Danish offshore wind turbine maker Vestas said Monday that its most powerful wind turbine, the V236-15.0 MW prototype, stretching 280 meters into the air, had reached 15 MW nominal power rating. "The prototype was installed in December 2022 and produced its first kWh of power shortly after. Since then, the turbine has been through a... Continue Reading →
RWE and US utility Entergy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly evaluate developing offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico. Under the MoU, RWE and Entergy agree to assess four key areas to define an optimal route-to-market including the market demand for carbon-free energy for customers of Entergy Louisiana, Entergy New Orleans,... Continue Reading →
(OE) Heerema Marine Contractors has completed the installation of 24 turbines for Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm and most turbines are already producing electricity. Three remaining turbines will be installed later this year. The 257 MW offshore wind farm is located in the German section of the Baltic Sea, northeast of the island... Continue Reading →
Offshore cable maker NKT won a contract to deliver the high-voltage DC on- and offshore export cable system for Ørsted's Hornsea 3 offshore wind project in the UK. NKT said that the final order has an estimated contract value of approximately 500 million euros in market prices ( around 400 million euros in std. metal... Continue Reading →
(OE) UK-based machine learning and applied AI company Cognitive Business has won a contract to provide a complete package of AI and forecasting to RWE’s Robin Rigg wind farm offshore Scotland. Congitive Business will to provide the wind farm with a suite of AI, Pattern Recognition and Production Forecasting technology that will enable the owner-operator to predict... Continue Reading →
(OE) Danish wind turbine maker Vestas said Friday it had signed a preferred supplier agreement to supply its giant 15MW offshore wind turbines for a floating wind project in South Korea. Vestas did not say who the client was. It did say that the floating offshore wind project would have a capacity of 495 MW.... Continue Reading →
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