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Ørsted to buy Deepwater Wind for $510 million

9 October 2018

urbines at the Deepwater Wind array off Block Island, R.I. Department of Energy photo.

Denmark-based offshore wind energy developer Ørsted announced it will pay $510 million to acquire Deepwater Wind, the Providence, R.I., company that has the Block Island Wind Farm and half a dozen offshore wind plays off the U.S. East Coast.

“The two companies’ offshore wind assets and organizations will be merged into the leading US offshore wind platform with the most comprehensive geographic coverage and the largest pipeline of development capacity,” Ørsted and Deepwater officials said in a...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/orsted-to-buy-deepwater-wind-for-510-million/

Court upholds BOEM lease for New York offshore wind energy

2 October 2018

A nautical chart showing the proposed New York wind energy area. BOEM image.

Seafood industry groups were dealt a setback Sept. 30 when a federal court judge in Washington, D.C., refused to grant a ruling in their challenge of a federal lease for an 80,000-acre offshore wind energy project near New York.

The Fisheries Survival Fund and its allies sought a summary judgement from U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., to overturn the federal Bureau of Offshore Energy Management’s grant of a $42.5 million lease to Norway-based Equinor, formerly Statoil,...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/court-upholds-boem-lease-for-new-york-offshore-wind-energy/

BOEM looking at traffic lanes, buffers for offshore wind power

24 September 2018

A chart showing potential wind energy energy areas in the New York Bight (grid blocks) overlaid with vessel tracks from AIS data. MARCO image.

Concerns raised by the maritime and commercial fishing industries now have federal officials considering wider buffer areas, and spacing as far as two nautical miles between proposed offshore wind power turbines.

At meetings in New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey, representatives of the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said the burden of proof is on offshore wind energy development companies to show their plans for turbine arrays will be compatible with other ocean industries.

“Right...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/boem-looking-at-traffic-lanes-buffers-for-offshore-wind-power/