(Reuters) President Joe Biden's administration unveiled plans on Wednesday to hold up to a dozen auctions of offshore wind development rights through 2028, including four before the end of this year. The schedule will help companies, states and others plan for projects that require massive amounts of investment and infrastructure, the Interior Department said in... Continue Reading →
Vestas and Maersk to Build Offshore Wind Logistics Base in South Korea
(OE) Vestas has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with A.P. Moller-Maersk, Jeonnam Province, and Mokpo City to build an offshore wind hub in Mokpo City in the Jeonnam Province, South Korea. Under the MoU, the parties will work together with the aim to establish a nacelle manufacturing plant and logistical base for offshore wind... Continue Reading →
Plans Submitted to Link 6 GW of Offshore Wind Farms to New Jersey Grid
(offshoreWIND.biz) National Grid Ventures (NGV) and Con Edison Transmission have submitted plans for building a transmission infrastructure that will connect offshore wind power to the New Jersey electricity grid. The project, named the Garden State Energy Path, proposes laying underground cables that will enable the delivery of approximately 6 GW of offshore wind power from... Continue Reading →
Macquarie Unit, Corio Generation, Is Leading $50 Billion Investment in Offshore Wind
(Bloomberg) -- Macquarie Asset Management is making a $50 billion bet on offshore wind after sidestepping a perfect storm of low power prices and cost inflation that forced many competitors to walk away. Corio Generation Ltd., the fully owned offshore wind unit of the Australian financial giant, along with partners including TotalEnergies SE, plans to... Continue Reading →
State of Ceará maps investments in infrastructure to attract offshore wind and hydrogen
(epbr) The Porto do Pecém has started studies to identify what investments will be needed in the infrastructure of the port complex to attract investments for offshore wind and green hydrogen projects for Ceará, said the Secretary of State for International Relations, Roseane Medeiros . “Because, obviously, these investments [in renewable projects] are private investments.... Continue Reading →
Mistakes made by other countries in offshore wind are lessons for Brazil, says CEO of Corio
(epbr) In the opinion of Corio Generation's global CEO, Jonathan Cole, Brazil can learn from the challenges faced by offshore wind farms around the world, which have suffered from cancellations and delays of some projects and the failure of auctions, in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. The company hopes to... Continue Reading →
Acteon acquired by private equity investors
(OM) Acteon Group, an offshore energy infrastructure services business, has been acquired by private equity investors Buckthorn Partners and One Equity Partners (OEP). With this business investment, Buckthorn and OEP said they aim to "improve Acteon’s standing with suppliers and customers and enable it to compete even more strongly in its core markets." The investors’ said... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy wants to advance debates on criteria for choosing and disputing areas for offshore wind farms
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) will begin to evaluate the regulation of parameters for the selection of areas destined for offshore wind generation projects, according to the ministry's Secretary of Energy Transition and Planning, Thiago Barral. The executive also said that the ministry will discuss criteria so that the auctions for areas considers... Continue Reading →
Euroports and BlueFloat Forge Strategic Offshore Wind Alliance
(OE) One of the largest port-infrastructure companies Euroports and Spanish offshore wind developer BlueFloat Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to foster cooperation in supply chain and ports infrastructure for the delivery of offshore wind in Europe. The strategic alliance marks a significant step forward in building capabilities and infrastructure critical to establish... Continue Reading →
RWE Joins Forces with Spanish Port to Create Floating Wind Hub
Germany's top utility RWE has signed a Letter of Support with the Port Authority of A Coruña to facilitate the scaling-up of the port capacity in support of the Spanish government’s floating wind targets. Working together under a Letter of Support, the partners will investigate the potential for transforming infrastructure at the Port of Coruña,... Continue Reading →