Danish offshore wind developer Ørsted has agreed to divest its power distribution and two other businesses to focus on renewable energy. Ørsted said the deal with SEAS-NVE is valued at $3.15 billion deal and includes its power distribution business, Radius, as well as its residential customer and...
By Susanna Twidale LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Britain has launched its first major auction of offshore wind farm leases in a decade, offering sites with the combined potential to power more than six million homes. Britain is already the world’s largest offshore wind market, and plans to generate a...
The largest offshore wind farm in Scandinavia has officially opened off the coast of Denmark. The Horns Rev 3 wind farm, operated by the Swedish power company Vettenfall, is located in the North Sea 25-40 kilometers off Denmark’s west coast. It consists of 49 wind turbines generating a cumulative...
Norwegian government-run Enova has approved funding of up to NOK 2.3 billion (US$256 million) to support a project that would develop the world’s first floating offshore wind farm to power offshore oil and gas installations in the northern North Sea. The Hywind Tampen project proposes supplying...
The former Coast Guard waterways management chief for New England has joined offshore wind energy company Ørsted, as the emerging U.S. industry comes to grips with pushback from commercial fishermen and other interests.
Ed LeBlanc, a former Coast Guard officer and most recently chief of the Waterways Management Division for Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, will be manager of marine affairs for Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind, the Denmark-based energy company’s American division.
In his last...
https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/orsted-hires-coast-guard-waterways-chief/
Netherlands-based Jan De Nul says it has secured a contract from Vattenfall Vindkraft Kriegers Flak to transport and install 72 large offshore wing turbines for the Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) in Denmark. The Kriegers Flak OWF will be located approximately 9 miles from shore in the...
By William Mathis (Bloomberg) –A carbon-fiber kite tethered to a buoy floating in waters 220 meters (761 feet) deep took flight in a test to prove that the future of offshore wind power might fly through the air. The kite, owned by the Alphabet Inc.-subsidiary Makani and backed by Royal Dutch Shell...
By James Thornhill and Jeremy Hodges – (Bloomberg) –Spanish utility Iberdrola SA is selling a stake in a U.K. offshore wind farm to a unit of Macquarie Group Ltd. for 1.63 billion pounds ($1.96 billion) in a deal that highlights the widening appeal of renewable assets. Institutional investors are...
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is extending its environmental review of the proposed 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind offshore wind project, and will expand its “cumulative impacts analysis” of other massive wind power plans for the East Coast.
The news Friday is another blow to Vineyard Wind’s plan for 84 turbines on its federal lease 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. The company had expected BOEM approval of a environmental impact statement by mid-July, and has warned earlier...
https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/boem-extends-expands-review-of-offshore-wind-project/
Offshore wind training, like the industry, is prepping for takeoff. In the early stages, offshore wind developers and vessel operators sent workers to Europe to learn the ropes. Now several U.S. colleges, universities and private investors are creating offshore wind centers, institutes, and degree and certification programs.
Here are a few examples:
https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/training-for-offshore-wind-moves-into-high-gear/