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Feb. 5 - SMST has been selected by Marco Polo Marine to deliver a comprehensive mission equipment package for the company’s first‑of‑its‑kind Commissioning Service Operation Vessel Plus (CSOV‑Plus). The scope comprises an Access & Cargo Tower fitted with a motion compensated gangway (Telescopic Access Bridge L2) and a 100t knuckle boom crane, enabling safe and... Continue Reading →
Feb 5 (Reuters) - Wind turbine maker Vestas reported quarterly profit that fell slightly short of expectations on Thursday, driving its shares down as much as 6% even as the firm's CEO expressed confidence in future growth due to surging electricity demand. Vestas' operating profit before special items in the fourth quarter fell to 580 million... Continue Reading →
Feb. 3 (offshoreWIND.biz) All five US offshore wind farms under construction that received stop-work orders from the US government have been cleared to continue building, with Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind project the fifth project to be granted a preliminary injunction as part of a lawsuit challenging the order issued by the Director of the Department of... Continue Reading →
Feb 2 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday will consider a request from Danish energy company Orsted to block the Trump administration's halt on its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York. The preliminary injunction request is the fifth brought by an offshore wind developer since the Interior Department's December 22 pause on five offshore wind leases... Continue Reading →
Jan. 30 (offhoreWind.biz) The US government’s offshore wind construction pause left a dent in GE Vernova’s numbers for the fourth quarter of 2025, which might get deeper if wind turbine works at the Vineyard Wind 1 site offshore Massachusetts are not completed according to the project’s current schedule. The US wind turbine manufacturer said on... Continue Reading →
The first wind turbine is now in place at the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) site in the US. Jan. 30 ()offshoreWIND.biz) The 2.6 GW offshore wind farm, owned by Dominion Energy, will comprise 176 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind turbines and will be able to generate enough electricity to power over 900,000 homes once... Continue Reading →
Jan. 23 (offshoreWIND.biz) Wind turbine installation on Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) has started with the first of the project’s 176 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind turbines currently being erected. Virginia-based broadcaster WAVY reported on 21 January that a wind turbine tower was being installed at the CVOW site, next to the two... Continue Reading →
Jan 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday cleared U.S. power company Dominion Energy to resume work on its Virginia offshore wind project, the third legal blow this week to President Donald Trump's anti-offshore wind agenda. Judge Jamar Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued an order that allows... Continue Reading →
Jan. 15 (offshoreWIND.biz) A 20 MW wind turbine was installed in the waters off southern Fujian, China, on 13 January as part of a research project. This is the first time a wind turbine with this output was installed at sea, both in China and in the world, according to China Three Gorges (CTG), which... Continue Reading →
Jan. 5 (offshoreWIND.biz) The Goto floating wind farm, Japan’s first commercial floating offshore wind farm, entered full operation on 5 January 2026, according to the consortium behind the project consisting of Toda Corporation, ENEOS Renewable Energy Corporation, Osaka Gas, INPEX Corporation, Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO), and Chubu Electric Power. The 16.8 MW wind farm... Continue Reading →
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