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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 →
(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 →
(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 →
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 →
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 →
(Reuters) - SBM Offshore (SBMO.AS) on Thursday revised its annual guidance upwards as the Dutch oil and gas services firm sees the transition to renewable energies from fossil fuels benefiting its project portfolio, sending its shares higher. The group, which plans to achieve net-zero emissions by no later than 2050, set intermediate greenhouse gas-related targets as the... Continue Reading →
A consortium of TotalEnergies, Corio Generation and Qair has been pre-selected by the French Directorate General for Energy and Climate (DGEC) to participate in a competitive tender to develop two floating windfarms in the Mediterranean Sea.The two projects, of about 250 MW each, could supply enough clean energy to meet the annual electricity consumption of... Continue Reading →
Engineering firm Wood said it has been awarded the Principal Designer and Pre-FEED scope for Salamander, the 100MW floating wind farm development located 35km off Peterhead in the East Coast of Scotland. The Salamander project, a joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Ørsted and Subsea 7, will contribute toward achieving the UK government’s target of... Continue Reading →
Technology developer X1 Wind said it has laid its dynamic cable clearing way for final installation of its fully functional floating wind prototype at the PLOCAN Test Site, in the Canary Islands. Having installed the modular concrete gravity anchoring system last spring, the Barcelona-headquartered firm is now announcing another milestone in its first ocean deployment... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Renewables developer Cerluean Winds and Ping Petroleum UK have signed an agreement to create an offshore oil facility powered by wind energy in Britain, the companies said on Tuesday. Under the agreement, the production unit at Ping Petroleum’s Avalon site in the UK's North Sea will be powered by a floating offshore wind... Continue Reading →
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