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(Reuters) The Group of Seven rich nations on Sunday set big new collective targets for solar power and offshore wind capacity, agreeing to speed up renewable energy development and move toward a quicker phase-out of fossil fuels. But they stopped short of endorsing a 2030 deadline for phasing out coal that Canada and other members... Continue Reading →
Tom Ewing, Contributor (OE) Offshore wind energy planners are giving close review to fixed-tower systems in order to extend lessons learned to floating wind towers, under development now. In the U.S., floating towers have been most closely associated with plans for new wind energy areas (WEA) in the Pacific, off of California and maybe Oregon and... Continue Reading →
Philip Lewis, Contributor Tens of gigawatts of floating wind projects are slated for development in this and the next decade, but many obstacles remain. There has been much focus on the emerging floating wind market of late. The U.K. is forging ahead with commercial scale floating wind developments through the Scotwind and INTOG awards of at... Continue Reading →
As a part of SOFEC’s commitment to the Energy Transition, SOFECis pleased to announce that the newly developed Ammonia Transfer System has been awardedan Approval in Principle (AiP) by DNV for use with two mooring technologies 1) CALM Buoy and2) Tower Mooring solutions.Both CALM Buoy and Tower Mooring solutions are part of SOFEC’s proven product... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Irish-Spanish consortium IberBlue Wind plans to invest more than 4 billion euros ($4.36 billion) in two wind farms off the Atlantic coasts of Portugal and Spain, it said on Tuesday. IberBlue said in a statement it aimed to create a combined installed capacity of 1.96 gigawatts (GW), enough to supply electricity to over... Continue Reading →
The global wind energy market will pass the one terawatt (TW) threshold for installed capacity by the end of 2023, according to the latest market outlook from Wood Mackenzie. “After needing more than 40 years to reach one TW of installations, the wind industry will reach the next TW of installations within the next eight... Continue Reading →
(OE) China's CIMC Raffles, best known to Offshore Engineer readers for its offshore drilling rig construction project, has recently launched and delivered China's first semi-submersible offshore floating solar power platform. According to CIMC, the platform is "a self-developed and self-owned intellectual property," and has been officially handed over to CIMC Solar Marine Technology (Yantai) Co.,... Continue Reading →
(OW) Ørsted and Highview Power have joined forces to try to prove the feasibility and economic value of co-locating long-duration energy storage with offshore wind. The two companies will carry out detailed technical analysis and an economic assessment during 2023 that will investigate how combining Ørsted’s wind technology with Highview Power’s liquid air energy storage... Continue Reading →
The Eoliennes en Mer des îles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier (EMYN) consortium, comprising Ocean Winds, Sumitomo Corporation, Banque des Territoires and Vendée Energie, has reached the final investment decision for the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm in France and thus moved the project into the construction stage. The first offshore operations will take... Continue Reading →
(OW) DNV has awarded Entrion Wind with a Statement of Feasibility for its fully restrained platform (FRP) offshore wind foundation technology said to extend the operating depth of the monopile technology to up to 100 metres. DNV issued a Statement of Feasibility, affirming that the FRP monopile is considered conceptually feasible and a promising candidate... Continue Reading →
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