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(RC) Brazil has made a surprise leap forward to take lead position among global offshore wind power project pipelines with almost 100GW in development, according to new calculus from research house the Renewables Consulting Group (RCG). According to RCG’s latest Global Offshore Wind Annual Market Report, the South American nation – which has yet to install... Continue Reading →
By: Elaine Maslin (OE) Wind power pioneer Henrik Stiesdal built his first wind turbine in 1978. It was one of Denmark’s first step towards becoming a wind energy powerhouse, with Stiesdal regularly at the helm. He’s now got wider climate initiatives in his sights, including industrializing floating offshore wind. He reflected with OE’s Elaine Maslin.... Continue Reading →
(OW) Wind Catching Systems AS (WCS), the Norwegian developer of a floating wind system using multiple turbines, has completed a Series A investment round of up to USD 10 million led by the venture capital arm of an undisclosed global industrial company. The proceeds from the Series A financing will be used to fund the... Continue Reading →
(OW) KfW IPEX-Bank, together with Crédit Agricole CIB, Banco Santander, S.A., Mizuho Bank, European Investment Bank (EIB), and the Danish Export Credit Agency (EKF), has decided to finance the 30 MW Eoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating wind project offshore France. KfW IPEX-Bank is the first German bank to finance a floating offshore wind farm,... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Portugal wants to speed up its energy transition and will double the capacity of its first auction for floating offshore wind farms to 6-8 gigawatts (GW), Environment Minister Duarte Cordeiro said on Wednesday. As part of a global shift from carbon-emitting fossil fuels, countries are betting on new technologies to boost power generation from... Continue Reading →
(OE) The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), the Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, has consented to Equinor taking the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm into use, as the first turbine set sail to the offshore location. Equinor’s 88MW Hywind Tampen will be the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm once completed later this year. It... Continue Reading →
N-Sea has commenced geophysical, (limited) UXO and environmental surveys within the area of the White Cross floating offshore wind project in the Celtic Sea The activities, which began on 29 May, will see the company survey the offshore wind farm location and the project’s export cable route corridor. Offshore works will be completed by N-Sea... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 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 →
