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Company founder of Mainstream Renewable Power, Dr Eddie O’Connor, has passed away. He was a prominent and successful renewable energy entrepreneur who passed away at the age of 76 after a brief illness.
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is inviting the public to review and comment on a draft potential development of six wind lease areas offshore New York and New Jersey, in an area known as the New York Bight.
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DNV has launched a Joint Industry Project (JIP) with ten offshore wind and transmission developers to identify changes to electrical standards and standardization needed to enable the connection of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission into the United States’ electric grid.
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TGS - 4C Offshore, a part of TGS, has declared 2023 to be a record year for offshore wind investment with projects totaling 12.3 GW having closed during the year. This represents a strong recovery from last year, when only 0.8 GW reached Final Investment Decision (FID).
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Vaisala has published its 2023 Annual Lightning Report. Now in its seventh year, the Vaisala Xweather annual lightning report reveals a total of 242,101,157 in-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning events in the continental United States in 2023 and 2,102,170,206 lightning events worldwide.
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The next Dutch offshore wind farm tenders will open at the end of February 2024. These concern the IJmuiden Ver Wind Farm Sites Alpha and Beta. IJmuiden Ver is the largest wind farm zone in the Netherlands.
- BOEM announces environmental review of future development of California offshore wind leases
- EU Governments commit to take actions outlined in the Wind Power Package
- EIB announces counter-guarantees for wind energy manufacturing
- The Crown Estate unveils details for the leasing round for floating wind in the Celtic Sea
- New collaboration for standard solutions in the wind industry
- USA proposes offshore wind sale in the Central Atlantic
- Colombia launches first offshore wind auction
- Global power utilities declare joint action plan to drive energy transition
- European wind sector launches Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
- Report finds most countries expected to miss net zero offshore wind targets
- Launch of global offshore wind accelerator
- California, the EU Commission, Panama and Brazil join the Global Offshore Wind Alliance
- Sintef and REE Minerals to collaborate on EU project
- Mission Critical: Building the global wind energy supply chain for a 1.5°C world
- New York launches expedited renewable energy solicitations
- Highview Power and Ørsted conclude joint investigation on combining liquid air energy storage and offshore wind
- DNV launches joint industry project to advance offshore wind concrete floaters standards
- Masdar and PwC Middle East launch report on Accelerating Renewable Energy Investment in West Africa
- France awards 931MW in onshore wind tender
- New standard contract for offshore wind projects ensures a fairer distribution of risk
- UK and Republic of Korea to establish clean energy partnership
- NREL invites US manufacturers to develop and commercialise distributed wind energy technology
- Airbus and partners demonstrate helicopter capabilities for transport of technicians to floating wind turbines
- North Sea energy ministers unveil offshore wind expansion and action agenda
- New York announces plans for its next renewable energy solicitations
- Ocean Energy Safety Institute invests $2.7 million to advance offshore wind safety
- Amprion and Statnett to investigate feasibility of a hybrid interconnector for offshore wind
- UK government raises maximum prices in renewable energy auction
- Center for Ocean Leadership to support research into impacts of offshore wind energy
- Patent filings for offshore wind innovations increased 18% from 2002 to 2022