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June 11 (Reuters) - France's energy ministry said it would open on Friday a long-awaited call for tenders to develop 10 gigawatts of offshore wind projects, mostly located on the country's west coast. Offshore wind projects have faced challenges globally as rising costs and mounting political opposition in some countries, such as from the Trump... Continue Reading →
June 2 (OE) GustoMSC, NOV’s offshore design and engineering business, has developed a new asymmetrical rack-and-pinion technology designed to increase the jacking capacity of offshore wind installation vessels without increasing vessel size, weight or system complexity. The patent-pending asymmetrical rack-and-pinion (ASYM R&P) technology builds on the company’s existing rack-and-pinion jacking systems and is designed to... Continue Reading →
May 30 (cleantechnica.com) Beginning in the early 2000’s, US taxpayers devoted many millions of dollars to support new floating wind turbine technology, enabling many more gigawatts of clean power to be harvested from offshore sites. Too bad all that blood, sweat, and tears went to waste after US President Donald Trump blew up the domestic offshore... Continue Reading →
May 30 (splash) Chinese turbine manufacturer Ming Yang Europe has joined Norwegian Offshore Wind, underscoring its commitment to building deep, long-term partnerships with the European offshore wind community, particularly with Norway, which pioneered floating offshore wind technology. Norwegian Offshore Wind unites around 300 member companies across the offshore wind value chain. Norway has set a... Continue Reading →
May 29 (OE) Oceanic Wind Energy and Ming Yang Smart Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to evaluate a strategic investment partnership for the development of an offshore wind project in the Hecate Strait off the northwest coast of British Columbia. The project is being advanced by Coast Tsimshian Enterprises (CTE) and Oceanic... Continue Reading →
May 28 (OE) TouchWind has installed its floating wind turbine prototype at Fieldlab Green Economy Westvoorne in the Netherlands, moving the POWER project into the in-water testing phase. The POWER project, short for ‘POsitive Wake Effects of turbines with tilted Rotors’, is studying how turbines with tilted rotors can deflect wakes and access higher-energy wind... Continue Reading →
May 27 (splash) Major offshore wind markets in the UK, Europe, and APAC, excluding mainland China, are tightening their policy frameworks to support project execution, creating a more stable backdrop than the US, where regulatory uncertainty continues to weigh on market momentum. According to London-based energy market research firm Westwood, marketed utilisation for wind turbine... Continue Reading →
May 27 (oilprice.com) One of Europe's biggest wind turbine makers, Germany-based Nordex, is calling for stricter EU regulations to exclude non-western equipment from the supply chain of new renewable projects, as the European industry remains concerned about China's market dominance in the clean energy supply chain. "We believe the western-origin principle should therefore apply to... Continue Reading →
May 6 (Reuters) - Danish wind turbine maker Vestas reported an unexpectedly large first-quarter profit rise on Wednesday as it ramped up production for the offshore sector, but warned of geopolitical and tariff-related risks. "Last year in Q1 we hadn't put a single one of our new offshore turbines up," Vestas Chief Financial Officer Jakob Wegge... Continue Reading →
May 6 (OE) Europe's offshore wind expansion is running into a structural supply constraint where the turbine market is becoming increasingly concentrated. GE Vernova, Siemens Gamesa and Vestas have historically anchored Western offshore turbine supply, but with GE Vernova having paused new offshore wind orders following a series of technical and operational setbacks, Siemens Gamesa... Continue Reading →
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