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Taiwan’s Bureau of Energy has released the updated offshore wind farm allocations for round 3.1. A total of 3GW were allocated in 7 wind farms, not 10 as previously announced.
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The Finnish Government has published its law proposal (HE 320/2022 vp) for a temporary windfall tax on the electricity sector. The proposal intends to implement EU’s Council Regulation 2022/1854 on revenue cap and solidarity contribution as an emergency intervention to address high energy prices.
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The Irish Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan TD, has issued Maritime Area Consents (MACs) to the first phase of seven offshore renewable energy projects.
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The UK has signed an MoU with North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) members and the European Commission to re-engage with the NSEC. The NSEC facilitates the coordinated development of offshore wind and offshore grids in the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the Celtic Sea.
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Bass Strait off the Gippsland coast was declared an offshore renewable energy zone by the Australian Climate Change and Energy Minister. The declared area in Gippsland, Victoria, covers about 15,000 square kilometres offshore, and runs from Lakes Entrance in the east to south of Wilsons Promontory in the west.
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Six offshore wind power developers have won bids to develop a total of 3GW of offshore wind energy for connection to the grid in 2026–2027, the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan announced.
- UK Government unveils details of next year’s auction for Contracts for Difference
- EBRD supports Greece with legal framework for offshore wind development
- WAB e.V. and Team Norway deepen offshore wind and hydrogen collaboration
- Tamil Nadu Wind Energy Roadmap launched
- Winners of California offshore wind energy auction announced
- US agencies aim to mitigate offshore wind development impacts
- France launches two new offshore wind tenders
- The first-ever California offshore wind lease sale
- EU determined to secure its clean energy industrial base
- The United Kingdom may lift the de facto ban on onshore wind development.
- Increasing cost pressures and design flaws undermine Spanish auction
- India publishes draft tender for the development of 4GW of offshore wind
- The profitability of offshore wind in the Netherlands by 2030 is not self-evident
- BOEM identifies draft wind energy areas in the Central Atlantic
- Worldwide wind power boom continues in 2022
- Global floating wind set to miss 2030 targets according to new report
- Europe’s latest offshore auction mainly using non-price criteria is a success
- Nine new countries sign up for Global Offshore Wind Alliance
- IRENA report warns world of untapped renewable energy potential
- Europe takes emergency measures to remove permitting bottlenecks for renewables
- Accelerated development needed to reach offshore wind net zero targets
- Germany to accelerate offshore wind expansion
- Utility scale clean power installation in the USA down 18%
- Low wind turbine orders call for step change in Europe’s energy security strategy
- BOEM designates two wind energy areas in Gulf of Mexico
- World Energy Outlook 2022 shows the global energy crisis can be a historic turning point
- Electrical generation by renewable sources grew by 17.5% during past year in the USA
- WFO launches new offshore wind to hydrogen committee
- Europe needs to invest more in wind R&D to reach climate targets
- GDG undertake European port funding study to support the delivery of offshore wind