Brought to you by Quest Offshore & Southern Cone Consultants
(Reuters) Danish energy company Orsted's South Fork offshore wind farm off New York State delivered its first power to the state's power grid, according to a press release by New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Wednesday. The announcement is a bit of positive news in what has been a tough year for the nascent industry... Continue Reading →
(MME) Brazil, represented by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, officially joined the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA). The commitment was formalized at the GOWA Ministerial Meeting, which took place during COP 28, in Dubai. The European Union, Panama and the United States state of California also joined the Alliance at the same time. Representing... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Colombia on Tuesday officially launched its first bidding round for offshore wind energy concessions, part of efforts by its first leftist government to wean it off oil and gas production. Energy minister Andres Camacho announced the conditions from Dubai, where he is attending the COP28 climate conference. Reuters reported exclusively over the weekend that... Continue Reading →
(OP) Spain’s Iberdrola and the UAE’s Masdar agreed on Tuesday to form a strategic partnership looking to invest $16.2 billion (15 billion euros) in offshore wind and hydrogen in major markets including the U.S., the UK, and Germany. Iberdrola, a utility giant with 41 gigawatts (GW) of renewables in operation, and the UAE’s clean energy developer Masdar... Continue Reading →
Vattenfall and BASF are in exclusive discussions to partner on the Nordlicht 1 and 2 offshore wind farms in Germany through a sale of 49 per cent of the project shares to BASF. To formally express their joint ambition, the two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The signing of the transaction is... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Governments have decided to pay up to revive offshore wind farm developments after rising costs put at risk multiple projects that are needed to help them cut emissions and reach climate targets. Many countries are relying on a huge and rapid build-out of offshore wind farms which have high upfront costs but over... Continue Reading →
(OE) U.S.-based offshore wind developer Vineyard Offshore on Monday announced it has named Alicia Barton as the company’s new CEO, starting in January. Barton will take over for Lars T. Pedersen, who has led the company since it was founded in 2022 and before that led the team developing Vineyard Wind, the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in the United... Continue Reading →
(OW) Danish wind turbine maker Vestas has received a type certificate for its V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine. The prototype was installed at the Østerild National test centre for large wind turbines in Western Jutland, Denmark in December 2022. Three months later, the wind turbine reached its nominal power rating of 15 MW. In August, the unit... Continue Reading →
(OE) DNV secured partners to launch a new project to enhance technology development and prepare for scale/industrialization of concrete substructures for floating offshore wind. The new Joint Industry Project (JIP) called Concrete FLOW will optimize requirements for concrete floaters (floating or semisubmersible structures, generally moored to the seabed, used as foundations upon which equipment can be mounted),... Continue Reading →
Petrobras installed a LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor on the PPE-1A platform, in the Pescada field (RN). This is the state’s second platform to have sensors installed to measure speed and wind direction, among other weather variables. Studies that have been conducted are essential for the implementation of offshore wind projects, as the company... Continue Reading →
Brazil Energy Insight 