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(OW) The Governor of Maine’s Energy Office has released the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap, a stakeholder-driven comprehensive plan that is said to offer detailed strategies for Maine to realize economic, energy, and climate benefits from offshore wind, in conjunction with communities, fisheries, and wildlife of the Gulf of Maine. The Roadmap was developed over 18... Continue Reading →
Dutch FPSO operator SBM Offshore is working on several floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) projects and two of these vessels are expected to achieve the first oil this year. While disclosing its record full-year 2022 directional underlying EBITDA of $1 billion, the revenue of $3.29 billion and the year-end backlog of $30.5 billion, SBM... Continue Reading →
(OED) French energy major TotalEnergies, in partnership with Simply Blue Group, has secured a marine license for the 100MW Erebus project, Wales' first planned floating wind farm. The project is owned by Blue Gem Wind, the joint venture between TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Group. Erebus is located approx 40km off the Pembrokeshire coastline and is planned to... Continue Reading →
(OED) The floating offshore wind industry is in its early stages of development but is poised for rapid growth, with full commercialization possible in a little over a decade, according to a recent DNV survey. However, the industry faces challenges, including a lack of port infrastructure and anchor handlers, high cost, as well as an... Continue Reading →
Norway's METCentre, a floating wind test center, has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Portuguese offshore wind player WavEC. WavEC provides commercial services for wind farm developers and is a shareholder of the Aguçadoura test site, which has been a central testing area in the development of offshore renewable technologies. The MOU was... Continue Reading →
(OWB) EDF Renewables has acquired the Newcastle Offshore Wind (NOW) floating offshore wind project that is under development in New South Wales, Australia. Initial project developers Newcastle Offshore Wind Energy Pty Ltd (NOWE) have almost ten years of experience on the project, working closely with the EDF Renewables’ team in Australia for the last twelve... Continue Reading →
(OWB) IberBlue Wind, the joint venture created to promote floating offshore wind farms in the Iberian Peninsula, has revealed its first project for Portugal – a floating offshore wind farm off the coast of Figueira da Foz. Called Botafogo, in honour of the Portuguese galleon that was built in the 16th century and became known... Continue Reading →
(OWB) Spanish company Ferrovial and German offshore wind developer RWE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the joint development, construction and operation of floating wind farms in Spain, where Ferrovial has so far submitted expressions of interest (EoIs) for four projects totaling almost 1.8 GW. According to a press release from RWE,... Continue Reading →
Floating wind technology firm Hexicon has partnered up with IX Wind to provide services for the development and construction of a 1,300+ MW floating offshore wind project in Taiwan. The partnership will offer project management, consultancy and engineering services to the project. "With the combination of local knowledge and expertise in offshore wind development, this... Continue Reading →
Floating Energy Allyance (FEA) has selected Ocean Infinity to carry out an initial geophysical and geotechnical site investigation at its Buchan floating offshore wind project in Scotland. This represents an important step in the design and assessment process of the project, with the survey campaign taking place later this year, according to FEA. “We are... Continue Reading →
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