Offshore Wind

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May 09, 2023
The scope of the project involves the engineering, procurement, construction, offshore hook-up and commissioning of two Offshore Substation Platforms for the Empire Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farms located about 20 miles south of Long Island, east of the Rockaways.
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May 05, 2023
Located over 130 km off the northeast coast of England, Dogger Bank Wind Farm will be, at the time of completion, the world’s largest offshore wind farm and will be capable of powering 6 million British homes.
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April 2023
In this executive summary of a larger strategy outline, the U.S. Department of Energy sets out its strategic contributions toward 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power generation and beyond.
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April 21, 2023
The consortium made up of Dragados Offshore – a subsidiary of Cobra IS – and Siemens Energy has been awarded by TenneT a contract to design, build and install the three offshore windfarm energy converter platforms in the North Sea.
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April 20, 2023
The joint venture would benefit from the best-in-class experience of both partners across their respective core businesses providing offshore services.
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April 18, 2023
The NG20000X vessel has the capability of installing offshore wind turbines with a rotor diameter of more than 300 meters, as well as XXL monopiles weighing up to 3,000 tons at water depths of up to 70 meters.
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April 18, 2023
Seagreen will be Scotland's largest offshore wind farm and will have the capacity to power over 1.6 million homes. The installation of the foundations has been carried out by the Saipem 7000 vessel, one of the largest semi-submersible crane vessels in the world, during a series of offshore campaigns.
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April 17, 2023
The Defense Department’s concerns, which come on top of other conflicts identified by the U.S. Coast Guard, have spooked renewable power developers and U.S. East Coast states counting on mid-Atlantic wind farms to meet clean energy and climate goals.
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April 14, 2023
The Norwegian company is to transport and support the installation of a minimum of 104 Vestas offshore wind turbines with a capacity of 15 megawatts each.
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April 10, 2023
In this project, POWERCHINA initiated the double-deck sea transportation equipment for offshore wind power tower barrels, putting an end to the long-time dependence on single-deck sea transportation for tower barrels that measure more than 5 meters in diameter.
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April 06, 2023
TerraSond and Benthic, Geo-services brands in Acteon’s Data and Robotics division, have been awarded a combined geophysical and geotechnical survey work scope by the BlueFloat Energy and Renantis Partnership for its Bellrock and Broadshore wind farms northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland.
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April 04, 2023
24 turbines for Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm have been successfully installed. Most of the turbines are already producing green electricity and contributing to the German Energiewende.
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March 31, 2023
The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly evaluate the delivery of clean energy from offshore wind to industrial customers in Texas and Louisiana.
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March 30, 2023
Hitachi Energy and Petrofac were awarded the multi-year framework agreement as part of TenneT’s ambitious offshore wind "2GW Program”1, based on high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology pioneered by Hitachi Energy.
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March 30, 2023
The agreement covers transport and installation works over a period of 3 years, utilizing one of Havfram Wind`s newbuild NG20000X Jack-Up Wind Turbine Installation Vessels with a 3,200-ton crane. The work will start in the spring of 2027.
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March 27, 2023
The 100 MW Salamander floating offshore wind project, located 35 km off Peterhead, is designed to provide Scotland and its supply chain with an early opportunity to deliver floating offshore wind ahead of the larger-scale ScotWind buildout.
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March 25, 2023
The Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) initiative is a seabed leasing round, which is designed to enable offshore wind energy to directly supply offshore oil and gas platforms with renewable-generated electricity.
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March 24, 2023
Barry Kilcline, Ireland head of offshore at SSE Renewables, said he was aware of “at least two” significant investment decisions that had been abandoned as a result of the policy change, although he declined to say who the firms were.
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March 22, 2023
The partnership’s offshore wind portfolio in Italy will thus reach almost 3 GW with a yearly production of around 7 TWh of renewable energy, enough to satisfy the electricity consumption of around 2.5 million households and contributing to the decarbonization objectives of the 2030 National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan.
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March 21, 2023
With a capacity of 2,852 MW, Hornsea 3 will be capable of producing enough low-cost, clean, renewable electricity to power over 3 million UK homes.
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March 14, 2023
There was no shortage of clean energy sessions at CERAWeek by S&P Global 2023. While much of the conference was dominated by oil and gas companies, Thursday’s session, entitled “U.S. offshore wind: Surging power,” informed attendees of the emerging opportunities that offshore wind in the U.S. has to offer.
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