Bureau Veritas launches Balcão Único (One-Stop Shop), a service that facilitates and speeds up the environmental licensing process for the implementation of Offshore Wind Farms in Brazil and offers all the necessary support for companies interested in operating in the sector. The number of projects in the sector has risen 200% in the last year... Continue Reading →
Scotland opens offshore wind leasing round to decarbonize North Sea oil and gas
Scotland’s new offshore wind leasing round aiming to decarbonise the North Sea oil and gas sector and position offshore wind as a primary feature of the energy transition has launched today, with plans to deliver the results in March next year. Following last year’s consultations, Crown Estate Scotland, the body which manages seabed leasing for offshore... Continue Reading →
Wood Thilsted Wins Offshore Wind Engineering Work in U.S.
(OE) Engineering consultancy Wood Thilsted has been appointed as a detailed design engineer for US Wind’s MarWin project, the company’s first offshore wind project to be constructed off the coast of Maryland, U.S.. Apart from being responsible for the delivery of the detailed foundation design for MarWin, Wood Thilsted will also be supporting the development... Continue Reading →
Wind turbine maker Vestas says price power improving, shares jump
(Reuters) - Wind turbine maker Vestas (VWS.CO) expects to deliver more positive results next year, its chief executive said on Wednesday, as high costs from raw materials and transport, which hit second-quarter results, are passed on to customers. Shares in Vestas rose 4% after the firm said it raised its prices in the second quarter by 22%... Continue Reading →
Dutch company develops offshore wind-powered hydrogen production platform
The Netherlands-based engineering company Iv-Offshore & Energy has developed a platform that uses offshore wind energy to produce 85 kilotonnes of hydrogen per year. With a capacity of 500 MW, the platform can produce enough green hydrogen in a single day to power more than 300,000 hydrogen cars to drive at least 100 kilometres, the... Continue Reading →
Macquarie targets North Sea as the green energy hub of Europe
(EV) Macquarie Group is betting the North Sea – engine of the UK’s once-booming oil and gas industry – can be transformed into the green energy hub of Europe. The Australian bank, one of the top energy-infrastructure investors, has been acquiring offshore wind farms, pipelines and networks that will be in prime position to produce, carry... Continue Reading →
Shizen leads offshore wind projects in Brazil
(EPBR) Ibama registers 66 projects under licensing in the country, totaling 169 GW. Rio Grande do Sul and Ceará lead the ranking of power Shizen Energia do Brasil, a group of Japanese origin, has become the leader in licensing offshore wind farms in Brazil, with 18 GW, in six projects on the Brazilian coast –... Continue Reading →
US Stays the Course Toward Offshore Wind Targets
(OE) The events of the last month have shown that, despite some negative factors, the impetus to continue to grow the U.S. offshore wind segment has lost little steam. The foundations are firmly in place to support the deployment of 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030 and 110 GW by 2050. Two major... Continue Reading →
AVANGRID To Take Over Vineyard Wind 1 Operations
Iberdrola Group company AVANGRID has finalized an agreement to take over responsibility as the operations and management services provider for Vineyard Wind 1, the U.S.' first commercial-scale offshore wind project. The agreements include an operations and maintenance service agreement and asset management agreement, which designate AVANGRID as the party responsible for overseeing the operation and... Continue Reading →
Global Offshore Wind Investment Up 52 Pct in First Half of 2022
Investment in the offshore wind sector in the first half of this year amounted to USD 32 billion, 52 per cent more than in the same same period in 2021, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF). The financing of the 1 GW China Three Gorges (CTG) Yangjiang Yangxi Shapa Qingzhouwu Offshore Wind Farm for USD 2.1 billion... Continue Reading →