Offshore News
Ørsted Carries Out World's First Heavy-Lift Drone Deployment At Borssele 1&2 Offshore Wind Farm
Aug 07, 2024 10:49 | Fredericia, Denmark - Danish energy company and offshore specialist Ørsted is deploying heavy lift cargo drones (HLCD) for the first time at the Borssele 1&2 offshore wind farm. Ørsted believes that reaching this milestone will lead to sustainable improvements in operational efficiency and safety in the offshore wind industry. read more...
15 MW Turbines For Oranje Wind: Vestas Receives Huge Firm Order For 795 MW Offshore Wind Power Capacity
Aug 02, 2024 08:48 | Aarhus, Denmark - RWE and Total Energies had already made the investment decision for the construction of the 795 MW offshore wind farm Oranje Wind (formerly Hollandse Kust West VII) in the Netherlands. read more...
RWE Receives License For up to 2 GW Offshore Wind Power Capacity in Australia
Jul 17, 2024 14:54 | Essen, Germany - The energy group RWE is entering the Australian offshore wind market. The company has secured the first offshore wind project in Australia with a capacity of up to 2 GW (2,000 MW). read more...
Transaction Finalised: Ørsted Completes Acquisition of Eversource's Stake in Us Offshore Wind Farm Sunrise Wind
Jul 10, 2024 10:04 | Fredericia, Denmark - Following the successful bid for the US offshore wind farm Sunrise Wind in the tender for offshore wind capacity in New York 4, the Danish energy company Ørsted has finalised Eversource's 50 percent share in the 924 MW offshore wind farm off the coast of New York. read more...
Vestas With Order Rally of More Than 1,000 MW at The End of Q2/2024
Jul 02, 2024 08:45 | Aarhus, Denmark - Vestas is buzzing at the end of the second quarter of 2024. Last week, the Danish wind energy giant, which is listed on the RENIXX World renewable share index, reported orders with a total volume of more than 1,000 megawatts (MW). read more...
Deutsche Windguard Consulting Awarded Contract For Meteorological Analysis of Further Offshore Wind Areas in The North Sea
Jun 27, 2024 16:31 | Varel, Germany - The continuously updated site development plan forms the basis for systematic offshore wind expansion in Germany. The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) carries out the central preliminary investigations of the development areas. Deutsche Windguard Consulting will continue to support the planning process with its expertise in the future. read more...
Floating Offshore Wind Industry: Principle Power Signs Memorandum of Understanding For Series Production of Floating Wind Foundations
Jun 27, 2024 11:20 | Emeryville, USA - US-based Principle Power has signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HSG Sungdong, a Korean company specializing in shipbuilding and offshore wind, to collaborate on engineering developments for the mass production and assembly of Principle Power's patented WindFloat® technology. read more...
Offshore Wind Market USA: Ørsted Joint Venture Receives Final Approval For Sunrise Wind Offshore Wind Farm
Jun 25, 2024 12:37 | Fredericia, Denmark - Sunrise Wind, the 50/50 joint venture between the Danish energy group and offshore specialist Ørsted and the American energy supplier Eversource, has now been given the green light for the US offshore project of the same name. read more...
Borkum Riffgrund 3: Ørsted Installs First 11 MW Siemens Gamesa Turbine in Germany's Largest Offshore Wind Farm
Jun 21, 2024 10:20 | Hamburg, Germany - The expansion of offshore wind energy in Germany is currently developing dynamically again, also thanks to increasingly powerful wind turbines. The Danish energy group Ørsted has now reached the next milestone with the installation of the first wind turbine in the construction of Borkum Riffgrund 3, currently Germany's largest wind farm. read more...
Wind Market in Romania Picks up: Vestas to Supply Wind Turbines For Major Turnkey Project in Romania
Jun 18, 2024 09:17 | Aarhus, Denmark - Yesterday (17.06.2024), Vestas announced an important major order in the onshore sector in addition to the conclusion of the service and supply contracts with the energy supplier Vattenfall and the chemical company BASF for the Nordlicht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. read more...
660 MW Wind Power Capacity: RWE Awards Vestas a Firm Contract For The Offshore Wind Project Nordseecluster A in Germany
Jun 14, 2024 13:08 | Aarhus, Denmark - The Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has received a firm order to supply offshore wind turbines for RWE's Nordseecluster A project. read more...
1 GW in Northern Europe: Vestas Has Signed a Conditional Agreement For an Offshore Windproject
Jun 13, 2024 13:51 | Aarhus, Denmark - Vestas has signed a conditional agreement for the supply of turbines for an offshore wind power project in two phases in Northern Europe with a capacity above Vestas’ current disclosure threshold of 1 GW. read more...
Lightning Protection Risk Management: Meteorage And Recase Cooperate For Better Lightning Protection in The Wind Sector
May 17, 2024 10:40 | Pau, France / Busdorf, Germany - Thunderstorms and lightning events pose a risk in the operation of wind turbines. Against this background, the French company Meteorage, which specializes in lightning protection risk management, and the German engineering firm Recase Regenerative Energien have agreed to cooperate. read more...
Romania Enters Offshore Wind Energy - Law Comes Into Force at The End of May
May 13, 2024 16:44 | Bucharest, Romania - Romania wants to play a leading role in the use of offshore wind energy in the Black Sea. At the beginning of April 2024, the Chamber of Deputies passed one of the most important energy laws of recent years in plenary session: the Romanian Offshore Wind Energy Law. read more...
First 9.5 MW Vestas Wind Turbine Installed at Iberdrola's Baltic Eagle Offshore Wind Farm
May 13, 2024 12:06 | Berlin, Germany - In Germany, the commissioning of two further offshore wind farms with a capacity of 729 MW is planned for 2024. The offshore wind farm Gode Wind 3 (253 MW) will be built in the North Sea and Baltic Eagle (476 MW) in the Baltic Sea. read more...