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June 17 (offshreWIND.biz) The Trump Administration has withdrawn its appeal of a federal court ruling that vacated the section of its January 2025 Presidential Wind Memorandum that halted federal leasing and permitting activities for onshore and offshore wind projects, leaving the court’s decision in place and the wind permitting and leasing freeze overturned. The US... Continue Reading →
June 17 (Reuters) - Portugal's government on Wednesday launched a process to assign over 1,000 areas for wind and solar projects around existing grid connections, which can be fast-tracked thanks to their low potential for environmental conflicts. By doing so, the government aims to attract more investment in the country that is already one of... Continue Reading →
June 16 (oilnow.gy) ExxonMobil Guyana Limited has proposed a new exploration and appraisal drilling campaign that could see up to 35 wells drilled in the Stabroek Block between 2028 and 2033. The Guyana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on June 14 that it has opened a 28-day public consultation period on the proposed campaign, inviting... Continue Reading →
June 3 (Reuters) - Major international renewable energy investors are lining up for Brazil’s first battery auction, announced by the government on Wednesday, boosting hopes that the storage units will obtain the financial resources to purchase power from the country's struggling renewable generators. Solar and wind energy projects have been hit by hundreds of millions... 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 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 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 →
May 23 (Reuters) Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, a Danish firm eager to invest in Italian offshore wind farms, is getting impatient. Two years after the country's 2024 law offered incentives to would-be developers to provide offshore wind capacity, the government has yet to announce a calendar for auctions it said it would hold by 2028. The inertia reflects a reluctance... Continue Reading →
Feb. 19 (offshoreWIND.biz) The US Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, filed a Notice of Appeal on 17 February in the case in which a federal judge ruled in favour of 18 states that sued the Trump administration over the sweeping ban on wind energy projects. In May 2025, seventeen US states and the District... Continue Reading →
Dec 24 (Reuters) - Four Democratic governors wrote to U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday to ask the Trump administration to lift its halt on five offshore wind projects on the U.S. East Coast. The Department of the Interior on Monday attributed its suspension of the leases for the projects to national security concerns. However, New York... Continue Reading →
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