New Jersey environmental officials notified mariners Tuesday that survey work is beginning for Ocean Wind, Ørsted’s planned offshore wind energy array.
The 170’x40’x11’ Fugro Enterprise, a U.S.-flag survey vessel operated by Netherlands-based Fugro N.V., has been commissioned by 4C Offshore, a United-Kingdom-based offshore services company which is conducting the geotechnical studies for Ørsted.
https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/orsted-begins-survey-work-for-new-jersey-offshore-wind/
A coalition of East Coast commercial fishing groups announced Thursday it has a new partnership agreement with Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind to improve communications between the seafood industry and offshore wind energy developers.
“This first-of-its-kind partnership will create an unprecedented opportunity for commercial fishermen to provide direct input to the wind energy industry on matters of significant interest to their businesses,” according to the statement issued in Boston by the...
Denmark-based offshore wind operator Ørsted is proposing to supply the first 1,100 megawatts of offshore wind energy for New Jersey, with project backers saying it will bring new maritime jobs and manufacturing to the state.
Ørsted submitted its response Dec. 28 a bid to the New Jersey state Board of Public Utilities’ request for proposals with the plan for the Ocean Wind project, which would be built 15 miles off Atlantic City, N.J., on a lease that Ørsted (then known as DONG Energy) acquired...
On Tuesday 11 December 2018, Ørsted drove the first pile for its wind farm maintenance base at Vlissingen, part of North Sea Port.
The Danish energy giant Ørsted has begun construction of the maintenance base for the Borssele 1 and 2 wind farms in Vlissingen’s outer harbour. Both wind farms will be built and maintained from this base. The wind farms will have a combined energy generation capacity of 752 MW and will be situated 23 km off the coast. When the offshore wind farms are ready, the base...
http://container-news.com/first-pile-driven-north-sea-port-maintenance-base-wind-farm-orsted/
Federal energy officials are opening an environmental impact study for what could be the first offshore wind power project in East Coast federal waters, with public sessions next week on the South Fork Wind Farm proposal east of Montauk, N.Y.
The 15-turbine array is proposed by Deepwater Wind, the company that pioneered the first U.S. commercial offshore wind project at Block Island, R.I. Now in the process of being acquired by Denmark-based energy company Ørsted for $510 million, Deepwater Wind...
https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/boem-opens-process-for-new-york-offshore-wind-power/
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/