(Reuters) - Flotation Energy and Vaargroenn, a joint venture between Eni unit Plenitude and private equity firm HitecVision, said on Tuesday their floating offshore wind project Green Volt won a contract at Britain's latest renewable power auction. The 2.5 billion pound ($3.28 billion) initiative, which is expected to have a capacity of up to 560 megawatts, is... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies Floating Offshore Wind Pilot Project will Provide Power to Gas Platform
(OE) TotalEnergies has launched a pilot project consisting of a floating wind turbine to supply renewable power to the Culzean offshore platform in the UK North Sea. Culzean is a high-pressure, high-temperature gas condensate field located in Block 22/25a in the East Central Graben area. The 3MW floating wind turbine will be located 2km west... Continue Reading →
Environmental Approval Granted for Floating Wind Project in South Korea
(OE) Mainstream Renewable Power, the pureplay global wind and solar company majority-owned by Aker Horizons, has announced that KF Wind, a 1,125MW floating offshore wind project being developed off the coast of Ulsan, South Korea, has secured the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) approval from the Ministry of Environment for the totality of the two-phase project.... Continue Reading →
7.6 GW Offshore Wind Plan Gets State Regulator Approval in California
(offshoreWIND.biz)The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has finalised its plan to facilitate the state’s procurement of more than 10 GW of large-scale renewable energy and storage, including 7.6 GW of (floating) offshore wind. CPUC has voted to adopt a proposed decision from July, directing the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to procure electrical resources with... Continue Reading →
IRENA: ‘Accelerate International Cooperation on Floating Wind to Prevent Development of Silos’
(offshoreWIND.biz) As of 2023, there was around 270 MW of floating wind capacity in operation, with the global pipeline for new floating projects standing at 244 GW, according to a market outlook report commissioned by the 2023 Japanese G7 Presidency and issued by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). According to the report, meeting the... Continue Reading →
US Grants Maine First Floating Offshore Wind Research Lease
(offhsoreWIND.biz) The US State of Maine and the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have agreed on a floating offshore wind research lease in the Gulf of Maine, which could allow for the deployment of twelve floating wind turbines capable of generating 144 MW. The research lease site, an area of up to 15... Continue Reading →
A Hydrogen Balancing Act in Offshore Energy
Wendy Laursen, Contributing Writer (OE) The intermittency of offshore wind power is both a challenge and an opportunity for green hydrogen production. There will be a new generation of platforms taking up space in offshore wind farms as hydrogen production is used to help balance power supply and demand. Green hydrogen could be produced at... Continue Reading →
JDR’s Chief Strategy Officer: ‘Look at floating wind’
(offshore-energy.biz) JDR Cable Systems is already at the forefront of the production and supply of dynamic subsea cables to the floating wind market and will become a leader as the market expands, JDR’s Chief Strategy and Compliance Officer said in an interview with our sibling news site offshoreWIND.biz. The UK-based offshore wind cable supplier has already... Continue Reading →
Q Vision Near-Term Viable Market data module
There’s a new realism in the Floating Wind Industry. The big numbers from the hype days were never going to make it in time and projects are ‘moving to the right’ we hear almost daily. But perhaps those projects had too optimistic timelines initially. In reality, 2030 was just a round number and now that it’s suddenly close... Continue Reading →