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Renewable energy company RWE Renewables France and offshore vessel services provider Bourbon Subsea Services have agreed to jointly bid for the Mediterranean floating offshore wind auction. The two companies have applied to be selected as eligible bidder for the A06 tender, and the respective announcement by the French government is expected during the coming weeks. ... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dutch hydrogen technology developer, OneSea Energy, to collaborate in the field of floating offshore green hydrogen production. The Memorandum of Understanding provides that OneSea and Subsea 7 will move forward together in exploring and developing field-specific solutions for offshore hydrogen production. Both companies will... Continue Reading →
Westwood Global Energy Group (Westwood) has revealed that of the 121 GW worth of floating offshore wind projects that the company is currently tracking using its WIndLogix intelligence software, close to 15 GW of floating wind capacity is expected to come online by 2030. Westwood says that 15 GW of capacity will account for four... Continue Reading →
German energy company RWE and steel producer ArcelorMittal have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop, build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities that will supply the renewable energy and green hydrogen required to produce low-emissions steel in Germany. The partnership centres on driving forward the production of carbon-neutral steel,... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - French lender Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA) on Wednesday set out targets to cut its exposure to the financing of emissions from the oil and gas sector and boost renewable energy lending. The move comes as the sector faces growing regulatory and investor pressure to align lending with the world's climate goal, aiming to cap global warming... Continue Reading →
Offshore wind developer Ocean Winds is joining Opportunity Cromarty Firth and supporting the body’s green freeport bid. If the region is successful in its attempt, it would help to attract “new and increased manufacturing” that would ease the delivery of Scotland’s next generation of wind farms. Ocean Winds, a 50-50 joint venture launched in 2020... Continue Reading →
With 15 GW in offshore wind projects in Brazil under licensing, Ocean Winds — a joint venture between Engie and EDP Renováveis for offshore wind power generation — believes that investments in the implementation of the first projects in the country will be higher than in the rest of the world. “At first it will... Continue Reading →
(OW) American multinational automotive manufacturing corporation General Motors (GM) has led a Series A investment round of up to USD 10 million into Wind Catching Systems, the Norwegian developer of multi-turbine floating offshore wind systems, to help fund the development and commercialization of the technology. General Motors has made the investment through GM Ventures, the... Continue Reading →
(Offshore Energy) War in Ukraine is transforming the outlook for the supply, demand, and price of hydrocarbons and the pace and cost of the energy transition. While the precise timing and implementation of future bans on Russian commodity imports are difficult to predict, a rewriting of energy trade flows is now underway, energy intelligence group... Continue Reading →
A collaboration between Equinor and Technip Energies on Floating Wind Substructures was announced during the Seanergy conference in Normandie, France. The collaboration is intent on building on the two companies’ joint ambition of driving the industrialization of floating offshore wind. “We see longer-term collaboration from an early phase as the next step within floating offshore... Continue Reading →
