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 →
Gazelle Wind Power Partners with WAM Horizon to Develop Floating Wind Pilot in Portugal
(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 →
Vestas’ 15MW Offshore Wind Turbine Prototype Reaches Full Power Rating
(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, Entergy Team Up to Explore Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Potential
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 →
Heerema Installs 24 Turbines at Arcadis Ost 1 Offshore Wind Farm Using Unique Method
(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 →
NKT Wins €500M Contract to Deliver Cables for Ørsted’s Offshore Wind Project in UK
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 →
AI to Boost Efficiency of Scotland’s First Offshore Wind Farm
(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 →
Vestas to Supply 15MW Turbines for Floating Offshore Wind Project in South Korea
(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 →
TenneT Awards $25B in Contracts to Build North Sea-to-shore connections
(OE) Dutch state-owned electric grid company TenneT has awarded 11 contracts worth a combined 23 billion euros ($25 billion) to build systems connecting wind farms in the North Sea to shore, it said on Thursday. The contracts are being awarded to consortia led by Hitachi Energy and by General Electric, and caused shares in Petrofac, part of the Hitachi consortium,... Continue Reading →
CIP signs 2GW of Philippines offshore contracts
(RN) CIP, through its New Markets Fund, and the Philippines Government have signed a series of Offshore Wind Service Contracts with aggregate capacity estimated at 2GW. The fund signed the 25-year contracts with the Department of Energy, making CIP the first company to venture on a 100% foreign-owned basis into offshore wind development in the... Continue Reading →