Offshore Floating Wind

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

France has earmarked five ports to develop for floating wind turbines, the government has announced.

24th August 2026

France selects 5 ports to focus on floating wind

24th August 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A project hailed as the UK’s flagship floating wind project has been bought for £1 (€1.17).

7th August 2026

Flagship floating wind site snapped up for £1

7th August 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Japan’s Floating Offshore Wind Technology Research Association (FLOWRA) has signed an MoU with France Energies Marines (FEM) to develop technologies in floating wind.

30th October 2025

Japan signs 3rd MoU with Europeans to target floating wind

30th October 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Research has shown that developers are backing out of floating wind projects because of investment hurdles and slow progress.

6th October 2025

Developers pull back from floating wind

6th October 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

An application for a 1GW floating offshore wind farm off northeast Scotland has been submitted by a German, Belgian and French consortium.

26th August 2025

Floating offshore wind farm proposed for Scotland

26th August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Ocean Winds and partner Banque des Territoires have installed the first of three floating wind turbines that they say are the most powerful floating turbines in the world.

5th August 2025

Floating wind takes pride of place in Gulf of Lion

5th August 2025

OPINION

OPINION

Without more leases, infrastructure or investor confidence, the UK’s floating wind ambitions look highly unlikely, says Theo Cleave, commercial manager at marine construction specialist MintMech.

25th July 2025

Floating wind: An impossible target?

25th July 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The UK has to ramp up its floating wind industry if it is not to be left behind by other European countries such as France and Spain, a Seawork conference discussed on…

12th June 2025

Delegates call on industry to ramp up floating wind

12th June 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Italian floating wind technology firm Saipem has been chosen to provide its Star 1 floating wind foundations for the 7 Seas Med installation in the Strait of Sicily and the Ichnusa Wind…

11th March 2025

Saipem signed up for two Italian floating wind projects

11th March 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Energy firm EDF Renewables and Maple Power will design, build, operate and take down a 250MW floating offshore wind farm off the coast of France.

3rd January 2025

EDF consortium wins floating wind tender

3rd January 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Ørsted, the Simply Blue Group and Subsea7 are seeking supplier innovations to develop a 100MW floating offshore wind project that will be linked to an onshore battery storage facility.

28th November 2024

Ørsted JV calls for floating wind innovations

28th November 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Floating wind is expanding across the globe, with Europe at the forefront of a growing industry.

9th October 2024

Floating wind: ‘Industrial opportunity of the century’

9th October 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The largest floating wind project in the Mediterranean Sea will be installed offshore Sicily with a generation capacity of 2.8GW.

18th September 2024

Largest floating wind project in the Med for Sicily

18th September 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A joint venture will install a second floating wind farm to provide the power to electrify oil and gas platforms in the Scottish North Sea.

29th July 2024

Floating wind farms to power oil and gas

29th July 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

California has set a target of 25 gigawatts of floating wind by 2045 – a goal that will cost billions, says Offshore Wind California, a trade group of offshore wind developers and technology…

15th July 2024

California approves huge offshore wind plan

15th July 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The European Commission has handed a pan-European floating wind project a €13 million grant.

25th June 2024

EC hands floating wind project €13.4 million

25th June 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Assembly of the largest floating wind platform off the French Atlantic coast will take place in the coming weeks, says industry facilitator Bretagne Ocean Power.

27th February 2024

France reveals plans for a floating wind future

27th February 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Renewable energy developer BayWa r.e. is increasing the number of floating wind projects in Italy with 14 under development.

26th February 2024

Floating wind project signals first of many in Italy

26th February 2024