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June 2 (Reuters) - Seven U.S. states led by New York sued the Trump administration and a French energy firm on Tuesday for canceling a major offshore wind lease off the coast of New York in exchange for a pledge by the company to invest instead in fossil fuel projects. The lawsuit in the Washington,... Continue Reading →
June 2 (OE) GustoMSC, NOV’s offshore design and engineering business, has developed a new asymmetrical rack-and-pinion technology designed to increase the jacking capacity of offshore wind installation vessels without increasing vessel size, weight or system complexity. The patent-pending asymmetrical rack-and-pinion (ASYM R&P) technology builds on the company’s existing rack-and-pinion jacking systems and is designed to... Continue Reading →
May 30 (cleantechnica.com) Beginning in the early 2000’s, US taxpayers devoted many millions of dollars to support new floating wind turbine technology, enabling many more gigawatts of clean power to be harvested from offshore sites. Too bad all that blood, sweat, and tears went to waste after US President Donald Trump blew up the domestic offshore... Continue Reading →
May 30 (splash) Chinese turbine manufacturer Ming Yang Europe has joined Norwegian Offshore Wind, underscoring its commitment to building deep, long-term partnerships with the European offshore wind community, particularly with Norway, which pioneered floating offshore wind technology. Norwegian Offshore Wind unites around 300 member companies across the offshore wind value chain. Norway has set a... Continue Reading →
May 29 (OE) Oceanic Wind Energy and Ming Yang Smart Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to evaluate a strategic investment partnership for the development of an offshore wind project in the Hecate Strait off the northwest coast of British Columbia. The project is being advanced by Coast Tsimshian Enterprises (CTE) and Oceanic... Continue Reading →
May 28 (oilprice.com) TotalEnergies has applied for authorization of France's biggest renewables project, a 1.5-GW offshore wind project off Normandy, which is estimated to cost $5.2 billion, the French supermajor said on Thursday. Eight months after the French government awarded the project to TotalEnergies, the group's wholly-owned project company Centre Manche Energies has officially applied for the... Continue Reading →
May 28 (OE) TouchWind has installed its floating wind turbine prototype at Fieldlab Green Economy Westvoorne in the Netherlands, moving the POWER project into the in-water testing phase. The POWER project, short for ‘POsitive Wake Effects of turbines with tilted Rotors’, is studying how turbines with tilted rotors can deflect wakes and access higher-energy wind... Continue Reading →
May 27 (splash) Major offshore wind markets in the UK, Europe, and APAC, excluding mainland China, are tightening their policy frameworks to support project execution, creating a more stable backdrop than the US, where regulatory uncertainty continues to weigh on market momentum. According to London-based energy market research firm Westwood, marketed utilisation for wind turbine... Continue Reading →
May 27 (oilprice.com) One of Europe's biggest wind turbine makers, Germany-based Nordex, is calling for stricter EU regulations to exclude non-western equipment from the supply chain of new renewable projects, as the European industry remains concerned about China's market dominance in the clean energy supply chain. "We believe the western-origin principle should therefore apply to... Continue Reading →
May 25 (offshoreWIND.biz) California remains committed to deploying 25 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2045, according to state officials who were at the recently held 2026 Pacific Offshore Wind Summit, hosted by Offshore Wind California. David Hochschild, Chair of the California Energy Commission, reiterated California’s offshore wind ambitions and said the state would continue... Continue Reading →
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