Offshore Renewables

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Three EU-funded R&D projects have been selected to complete their designs and fabricate prototypes for a one-year demonstration aiming to assess the feasibility of different ideas to generate electricity from wave power.

7th September 2023

3 wave projects win share of €13.4m budget

7th September 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A substation installed 30km off the German island of Nordeney is the next step to connecting 253MW of offshore wind-generated electricity to the German grid.

7th September 2023

Ørsted moves 2 offshore projects ahead

7th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

CorPower Ocean has successfully installed its first commercial-scale wave energy converter in northern Portugal.

6th September 2023

CorPower installs first commercial-scale WEC

6th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new merger has been formed between a German and Scottish firm to accelerate the move into floating renewables.

5th September 2023

UK/German merger forms to focus on floating renewables

5th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Researchers have been awarded funding to create an offshore wind cyber security research and development facility that will protect the technology against cyber-attacks.

5th September 2023

Ensuring offshore wind technology remains cyber secure

5th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Offshore wind capacity around the world is exploding in size as different territories set stringent renewable energy goals. 

5th September 2023

Decarbonisation: How far have we got?

5th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Dutch firm FibreMax has signed an MoU with Entrion, a Texas-based manufacturer of FRP monopile designs, to increase the depths in which offshore monopiles can be installed. 

4th September 2023

MoU pledges to deepen waters for offshore wind

4th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Danish shipping firm ESVAGT and the Hvide Sande Shipyard have agreed to build ‘the transfer boat for the wind sector of the future’ – a bigger, stronger vessel with more room for…

1st September 2023

Danish firms to build ‘transfer boat of the future’

1st September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The US’s plans to expand offshore wind have fallen flat with the first lease sale for projects in the Gulf of Mexico receiving just one winning bid.

1st September 2023

Bidders take wind out of US offshore sales

1st September 2023

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Fugro has been awarded two geotechnical investigation contracts for the development of the Dutch Nederwiek wind farm sites II & III (noord).

30th August 2023

Dutch wind farm survey double for Fugro

30th August 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Iberdrola will receive a €500 million green loan from Citi and Eksfin for the construction and development of the UK’s East Anglia Three offshore windfarm.

30th August 2023

Iberdrola nets green finance for UK windfarm

30th August 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Two of the world’s largest marine contractors have sounded notes of confidence in the offshore sector, posting financial results with one in particular ‘exceeding expectations’.

29th August 2023

Contractor financials look good in offshore wind

29th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon has officially opened the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm in the North Sea to supply a third of the electricity needs of two oil and gas fields.

29th August 2023

Floating wind farm opens to power oil and gas

29th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The Biden administration has approved a new 704 MW offshore wind project off Rhode Island.

25th August 2023

Boost for US offshore wind as RI farm gets green light

25th August 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Investigations are being carried out into a wind turbine in one of the UK’s first commercial offshore wind farms that caught fire off the Norfolk coast last week.

25th August 2023

Offshore wind turbine catches fire

25th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A project trumpeted as being the UK’s flagship green hydrogen programme that would make the gas using electricity generated by offshore wind has been abandoned.

25th August 2023

Flagship green H2 project hits the wall

25th August 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Cable giant Prysmian has been chosen to produce and install the cables for two offshore grid connection systems and an underground cable project in Germany in contracts worth €4.5 billion.

24th August 2023

€4.5 billion cable contracts awarded to Prysmian

24th August 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

A pilot project to carry out underwater survey and inspection services at a German offshore wind farm have been hailed a success.

24th August 2023

Pilot autonomous survey project claims success

24th August 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Renewable energy firm OX2 has been given a permit to develop a 1.5GW offshore wind farm off the south coast of Sweden.

23rd August 2023

1.5GW offshore wind farm wins first permit for Sweden

23rd August 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Maritime green tech start-up, ExoTechnologies, has delivered a fully recyclable, high-performance workboat to tidal turbine developers Orbital Marine Power to support its offshore operation.

23rd August 2023

Recyclable workboat for tidal turbine

23rd August 2023