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Philip Lewis, Contributor - Director Research at Intelatus Global Partners.. (OE) We are fast approaching a potential inflection point for the U.S. offshore wind industry, the November 2024 elections. On the positive side of the scale, federal and state leases supporting approximately 63 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity have been awarded to developers on the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - A goal to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030 and cut fossil fuel use is within reach, the International Energy Agency said in a report on Tuesday, but will require a huge push to unlock bottlenecks such as permitting and grid connections. The report comes as leaders from government and business come... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced final approval of a wind project off the coast of Maryland, bringing the U.S. halfway to its goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of the clean energy technology by 2030. The project is the 10th approved by Biden's Interior Department. He has made offshore wind a cornerstone of... Continue Reading →
This is an op-ed piece by Liz Burdock, Founder and CEO of Oceantic Network, the US offshore renewable energy industry organisation. (offshoreWIND.biz) When I started Oceantic Network 11 years ago, I was motivated by the confident belief that offshore wind would be an economic and environmental game-changer for the U.S. Not only because of the industry’s... Continue Reading →
(OE) The government of Australia has granted 12 feasibility licenses for the Gippsland Offshore Wind Zone, with the potential installed generation capacity of 25 GW. The news follows Australia’s governments move to approve six projects for feasibility studies for the Gippsland area offshore Victoria back in May. According to Chris Bowen, Australia’s Minister for Climate... Continue Reading →
(Splash) The California Energy Commission has approved a strategic plan to develop a massive floating offshore wind industry with the aim of achieving 25 GW of capacity by 2045. California’s electricity grid is served by nearly 35,000 MW of renewable resources today, but to meet the 2045 goal, the state will need an additional 148,000... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWind.biz)Iberdrola, through its US subsidiary Avangrid, and Virginia Electric and Power Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dominion Energy, have signed an agreement under which Dominion will acquire the Kitty Hawk North Wind offshore wind lease area. The site, located some 40 kilometres north of the under-construction Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, would be renamed CVOW-South,... Continue Reading →
(OE) The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced its approval of Avangrid's New England Wind Construction and Operations Plan (COP), which authorizes construction and operation of two wind energy projects. This is the final approval of these two projects from BOEM, following the agency’s April 2024 Record of Decision. The approval will permit... Continue Reading →
(OE) RWE has selected Argeo, a subsea service provider, to perform the site investigation work for Canopy offshore wind farm, a 1.6 GW floating wind project located off the coast of Northern California. The site investigation survey is a key milestone in the development of RWE’s first commercial scale floating offshore wind farm. The planned... Continue Reading →
(OE) Zeevonk, a joint venture of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Vattenfall, has secured a permit to build 2 GW offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, which will be co-located with floating solar farm and feature green hydrogen production system. The IJmuiden Ver Beta project will include a 50 MWp floating offshore solar farm on... Continue Reading →
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