Spanish offshore engineering company Saitec on Thursday announced its interest in developing a pre-commercial floating wind pilot park with 5 floating wind units and a total potential of 50MW, 15 km from Cap de Creus, Catalonia, Spain, by 2025. The offshore wind turbines will use SATH technology in open sea in Girona, specifically in an... Continue Reading →
DNV and 25 Partners Launch JIP for Floating Offshore Wind Substations
Energy industry expert and assurance firm DNV has partnered up with 25 industry giants in a Joint Industry Project (JIP) aimed at enhancing technology development for floating offshore wind substations, with particular attention to how export cables and topside equipment tolerate movements of a floating substructure. The objective is to align industry best-practice allowing for... Continue Reading →
Offshore Design Engineering to Provide Topside FEED for ERM Dolphyn Hydrogen Project
Offshore Design Engineering Ltd (ODE) has been selected by ERM Dolphyn to provide topside FEED support to the commercial demonstration phase of the ERM Dolphyn (Deepwater Offshore Local HYdrogeN) project in the UK.The ERM Dolphyn project seeks to produce green hydrogen at scale by utilizing moored floating substructures; each moored structure hosts an offshore wind... Continue Reading →
BW Ideol Inks Deal with EDF, Maple Power for Floating Wind Project in Mediterranean
BW Ideol, a company that builds foundations for floating wind farms, has signed an agreement with the EDF Renouvelables and Maple Power consortium to cooperate on the design of floating foundations for the AO6 floating offshore wind tender in the French section of the Mediterranean Sea. EDF Renouvelables is a subsidiary of the EDF group,... Continue Reading →
UK Picks Offshore Wind Champion. Opens $200M Floating Wind Fund for Expressions of Interest
(OE) The UK government on Friday appointed Tim Pick as the UK's first Offshore Wind Champion, as a £160 million (around $199,6 million) floating offshore wind fund opens for expressions of interest. "Ambitious plans to expand offshore wind around the United Kingdom to power homes and businesses with cheap, homegrown energy received a further boost... Continue Reading →
Proposal Placed for 975MW Floating Offshore Wind Farm in Sardinia, Italy
Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy have proposed to build a 975MW floating offshore wind farm off the northeastern coast of Sardinia, Italy. The wind farm's name would be Tibula Energia. Before starting the Ministerial authorization process, the developers said they were holding a number of meetings with local stakeholders to present the project proposal in... Continue Reading →
Strohm, Llyhfe team up for floating wind/hydrogen development
Strohm, a manufacturer of fully bonded, thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP), has signed a memorandum of understanding with renewable hydrogen supplier Lhyfe, which is based in Nantes, France. The companies plan to jointly develop systems for hydrogen transport, offshore and onshore, including what they claim will be the first floating wind turbine integrated with a hydrogen... Continue Reading →
Thistle Wind Partners secure rights to develop two offshore wind projects
(OM) Thistle Wind Partners, a partnership between DEME Concessions, Qair and Aspiravi, has successfully secured the rights to develop two offshore wind projects under the Scotwind leasing round after finalizing the option to lease agreements with Crown Estate Scotland, according to a recent DEME news release. Cluaran Deas Ear is a 1-GW fixed foundation project... Continue Reading →
Global offshore wind capacity achieves record growth
(WO) Offshore wind continues to play a vital role in the global Energy Transition. It was another record breaking year in 2021 for the offshore wind industry, with record start-ups (84 farms, 18.5 GW, 3,400 turbines) increasing global active capacity 58% to an all- time high of 50.5 GW. This takes offshore wind to approximately 0.3%... Continue Reading →
Simply Blue Group Plans to Build Two Gigawatt-scale Floating Wind Farms in Sweden
Ireland-based floating wind developer Simply Blue Group on Thursday unveiled plans for two floating wind projects of a combined 4,75GW capacity offshore Sweden. The 2 GW Skidbladner floating wind project is located 100 km southeast of Stockholm and the 2.75GW Herkules floating wind project, is approximately 60 km Southeast of the Island of Gotland. Simply... Continue Reading →