(Reuters) Abu Dhabi's Masdar is set to buy a 49% stake in Spanish utility Iberdrola's largest offshore wind project off Scotland's coast, known as East Anglia 3, Spanish newspaper Cinco Dias reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified market sources. The acquisition will be worth around 2 billion euros ($2.14 billion), the report added, as the entire... Continue Reading →
Netherlands Overshoots 2023 Offshore Wind Target
(OW) The Netherlands will reach, and exceed, the target set in its Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap 2023 by the end of this year. The country’s first offshore wind roadmap, created following the Dutch Energy Agreement signed ten years ago, sets a goal of 4.5 GW of installed capacity by the end of 2023 – and... Continue Reading →
Petrobras begins wind measuring tests with unprecedented technology
Petrobras began a new sequence of wind energy measurements on the coast of Rio Grande do Norte (RN), with version 2.0 of the equipment called Bravo - Remote Offshore Wind Assessment Buoy , an improvement in technology that has never been seen in Brazil, developed by its Research and Development Center (Cenpes). The result of... Continue Reading →
22 MW Offshore Wind Turbine in the Works for 2024/25
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer MingYang Smart Energy has unveiled a new offshore wind turbine model with a rated capacity of 22 MW – the MySE 22MW. The MySE 22MW model would be the most powerful wind turbine in the world and would feature a 310+ metre rotor. Equipped with carbon-fibre blades, the turbine would be... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies Partners with Corio and Rise for 3GW Attentive Energy Offshore Wind Project
French energy major TotalEnergies said Monday it had partnered with Corio Generation (Corio), an offshore wind developer, and Rise Light & Power (Rise), a New York-based electricity producer, for the joint development of the Attentive Energy offshore wind project off the coast of New York and New Jersey. Corio and Rise took respective stakes of... Continue Reading →
Dutch Firm Provides Motion Compensation Solution for U.S. Offshore Wind Project
(OE) Following the installation of the first wind turbine at the U.S. first commercial-sized offshore wind farm project, Vineyard Wind 1, earlier this week, Dutch offshore technology company Barge Master shared how it contributed to the project. Barge Master said: "The successful first feeder operation was accomplished in partnership with FOSS Offshore Wind, Seaqualize, GE, and... Continue Reading →
US Moves Closer to Gulf of Maine (Floating) Offshore Wind Lease Sale
(OW) The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has identified a draft Wind Energy Area (WEA) offshore the Gulf of Maine holding an estimated 40 GW of capacity which will be put up for a lease sale in 2024. The Draft WEA covers approximately 3,519,067 acres offshore Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, ranging from approximately... Continue Reading →
The Power of Offshore Molecule Production
Wendy Laursen, Contributing Writer (OE) Energy ecosystems are evolving as the value of offshore power-to-X production is being realized Flexible and delivered in long lengths on reels in a fast-track operation, thermoplastic composite pipeline can transfer up to nine times the amount of energy as a cable and can be used to store hydrogen, increasing the... Continue Reading →
Self-Orienting Floating Wind Turbine Completes Offshore Tests
(OW) The PivotBuoy Project, developed by X1 Wind in collaboration with nine industry and R&D partners, has finalized its offshore demonstration in Spain with what the partners describe as ”excellent results that promise to revolutionize the floating wind industry”. The Spanish firm’s X30 platform was tested in full operational conditions at PLOCAN offshore the Canary Islands... Continue Reading →
Scottish Floating Offshore Wind Project Completes All Offshore Survey Campaigns
All offshore survey campaigns have been completed across the Pentland floating offshore wind farm’s site area and cable corridor in Scotland. “This is a significant milestone for any offshore wind development, and we are pleased to have safely and successfully completed a number of survey and monitoring campaigns over the past three years that gives... Continue Reading →