All Offshore Floating Wind articles
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NewsFrance selects 5 ports to focus on floating wind
France has earmarked five ports to develop for floating wind turbines, the government has announced.
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NewsFlagship floating wind site snapped up for £1
A project hailed as the UK’s flagship floating wind project has been bought for £1 (€1.17).
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News - VideosJapan signs 3rd MoU with Europeans to target floating wind
Japan’s Floating Offshore Wind Technology Research Association (FLOWRA) has signed an MoU with France Energies Marines (FEM) to develop technologies in floating wind.
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NewsDevelopers pull back from floating wind
Research has shown that developers are backing out of floating wind projects because of investment hurdles and slow progress.
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NewsFloating offshore wind farm proposed for Scotland
An application for a 1GW floating offshore wind farm off northeast Scotland has been submitted by a German, Belgian and French consortium.
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NewsFloating wind takes pride of place in Gulf of Lion
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.
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NewsFloating wind: An impossible target?
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.
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NewsDelegates call on industry to ramp up floating wind
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 Wednesday.
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NewsSaipem signed up for two Italian floating wind projects
Italian subsea infrastructure firm Saipem has been contracted to provide its semi-submersible wind foundations for two floating wind projects in Saipem and Sardinia.
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NewsEDF consortium wins floating wind tender
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.
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NewsØrsted JV calls for floating wind innovations
A joint venture comprising Ørsted, the Simply Blue Group and Subsea7 has opened a second phase of a call for supplier innovations for a floating wind development.
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NewsFloating wind: ‘Industrial opportunity of the century’
Four of the top five countries developing floating wind are in Europe, alongside the only outsider – the US – according to a recent report.
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NewsLargest floating wind project in the Med for Sicily
The largest floating wind project in the Mediterranean Sea will be installed offshore Sicily.
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NewsFloating wind farms to power oil and gas
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.
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NewsCalifornia approves huge offshore wind plan
Floating offshore wind has received a massive boost, with California approving plans to install 25GW by 2045.
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NewsEC hands floating wind project €13.4 million
A floating wind platform will be installed in the Mediterranean as part of a project ‘to pave the way to mass deployment of the floating offshore wind industry’, project leaders say.
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NewsFrance reveals plans for a floating wind future
New wind turbine technology is presenting a more efficient, affordable option for floating offshore wind, say developers working on the largest platform for off the French Atlantic coast.
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NewsFloating wind project signals first of many in Italy
BayWa r.e. has announced a batch of floating offshore wind projects for Italy and has set up a base in Rome to develop them.
