By William Mathis (Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest offshore wind park planned off the coast of England will probably in the next decade generate power cheaper than by burning coal. A number of offshore wind projects won contracts to sell power at guaranteed prices in a U.K. auction Friday. The...
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Dominion submits proposal for largest U.S. offshore wind project
Dominion Energy announced today that it plans to develop the largest offshore wind development project in the U.S. to provide more renewable energy to its customers in Virginia and provide a boost to the offshore wind industry on the East Coast.
The Richmond, Va.-based company filed an application with PJM, the regional transmission organization that coordinates the electrical grid in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, to interconnect the proposed turbines to the...
World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbines Coming to U.S. Waters
By Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) –The tallest, most powerful wind turbines ever made are coming to U.S. waters care of General Electric Co. Denmark-based Orsted A/S plans to use 12-megawatt turbines made by GE for projects off the coast of Maryland and New Jersey, according to a statement from the...
UK Set to Open $25 Billion Lease Auction for Offshore Wind Farms
By William Mathis (Bloomberg) –The U.K. is set to open the first contest in a decade intended to draw as much as 20 billion pounds ($25 billion) of investment in offshore wind farms. The move in a competitive auction for leases where developers can plant large-scale turbines at sea will bring at...
Dominion Proposes Largest Offshore Wind Farm in U.S.
Virginia-based electric utility provider Dominion Energy is proposing the United States’ largest offshore wind development off Virginia’s coast. The proposal is for a 2,600-megawatt commercial offshore wind development that will ramp up to include 220 wind turbines providing renewable energy for up...
Orsted Divests Business Units for $2.3 Billion to Focus on Green Energy
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...
UK Launches Largest Offshore Wind Lease in a Decade
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...
Scandinavia’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Denmark
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...
Ørsted hires Coast Guard waterways chief
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...
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Norway Approves Funding for Floating Wind Farm at North Sea Oil Fields
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...