By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) –President Donald Trump’s decision to rule out energy development along the coasts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas will bar not just offshore oil and gas drilling — but coastal wind farms too. The broad reach of Trump’s recent orders, which was confirmed by...
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New York Wants to Buy Enough Clean Power for 1.5 Million Homes
By Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) –New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is seeking bids for up to 4,000 megawatts of clean energy, enough to power 1.5 million homes. The state plans to buy 2,500 megawatts of power from offshore wind farms proposed in the Atlantic Ocean and 1,500 megawatts from...
Major U.S. Offshore Wind Project Faces Permitting Delay
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Mega-Turbines Sought for Connecticut Offshore Wind Farm
By William Mathis (Bloomberg) –When Iberdrola SA builds its offshore wind farm off the coast of Connecticut sometime in the middle of next decade, it plans to use turbines more powerful than anything currently on the market. The Spanish utility’s Avangrid Inc. won an auction to develop the...
ABS Grants AIP for First Jones Act Offshore Wind SOV
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has awarded the first Approval in Principle (AIP) to VARD for its design of a Jones Act service operations vessel (SOV) for the U.S. offshore wind industry. The AIP, which was awarded this week at the International Work Boat Show in New Orleans, is the first...
U.S. Wind Developers Submit New England Wind Farm Layout Proposal
A consortium of offshore wind developers with leases off the U.S. Northeast coast has submitted their layout proposal to the United States Coast Guard. The proposed layout calls for a uniform layout with 1 nautical mile (nm) spacing between wind turbines. The leaseholders include Equinor, Mayflower...
Bernhard Schulte, MidOcean Marine Form U.S. Offshore Wind Joint Venture
U.S-based MidOcean Marine has teamed up with offshore wind veteran Bernhard Schulte Offshore to build and operate support vessels for the U.S. offshore wind industry. MidOcean Wind, a subsidiary of MidOcean Marine, has been working with Bernhard Schulte Offshore since the 2018 formation of WINDEA...
SUNY Maritime College To Host Wind Energy Conference In New York City
The State University of New York Maritime College and the Maritime Industry Museum at Fort Schuyler, proudly announce the Ocean Wind Energy Conference in New York City on Thursday, September 26, 2019. This conference comes just months after New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo executed the United...
Trump Delay Casts Doubt on First Big U.S. Offshore Wind Farm
(Bloomberg) –The Trump administration cast the fate of the nation’s first major offshore wind farm into doubt by extending an environmental review for the $2.8 billion Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts. The Interior Department has ordered an additional study of the farm, proposed by Avangrid...
First Big U.S. Offshore Wind Project Hits Snag Due to Fishing-Industry Concerns
By Nichola Groom July 29 (Reuters) – Trump administration infighting is holding up approval of the first major U.S. offshore wind energy project, with agencies sparring over whether the proposal does enough to protect the fishing industry, according to interviews and agency documents. The delays...