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Fugro awarded floating lidar project offshore Gippsland for Ørsted
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Fugro has been chosen by Ørsted to undertake a 12-month floating lidar measurement campaign for their Gippsland offshore wind farms, off the south coast of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.Dongfang's 26 MW offshore wind turbine rolls off production line
- Category: Product News
Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) has rolled out the 26 MW offshore wind turbine in Fuqing, East China's Fujian province.
OX2 acquires 1 GW onshore wind power project in Australia
- Category: Projects and Contracts
OX2 has acquired its first onshore wind power project in Australia. The project, which is in an early stage, will also include a battery energy storage system.
OEG appoints new chairman
- Category: Company News
OEG Energy (OEG) has announced the appointment of Ricardo Rosa as non-executive chairman with immediate effect. Ricardo was most recently chief financial officer at Subsea7, a position he held for nine years until his retirement in 2021.Vestas and Fortum reach settlement on arbitration related to Russian wind energy projects
- Category: Company News
Vestas and Fortum have announced a settlement of the arbitration regarding wind energy projects in Russia. The settlement entails that both companies waive past, present, and future claims related to their legacy business activities in Russia.
KF Wind secures Transmission Service Agreement for floating offshore wind project in South Korea
- Category: Projects and Contracts
KF Wind, a floating offshore wind project being developed off the coast of Ulsan, has secured a Transmission Service Agreement (TSA) with Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) for a total of 1,125 MW of clean power to be injected into Korea’s national grid.
Airloom Energy announces financing to accelerate development of pilot in Wyoming
- Category: Product News
Airloom Energy has secured $13.75 million in financing to support the development of a pilot project in Wyoming, USA. The company will break ground on the project in the summer of 2025.
New floating offshore wind projects sign contracts with METCentre in Norway
- Category: Projects and Contracts
Three new floating offshore wind projects have signed contracts with METCentre to test their turbines. The companies involved will demonstrate floaters with turbines of 15 MW and above.
Report highlights potential of UK's floating wind energy industry
- Category: Industry News
A new report by the joint Government-industry Floating Offshore Wind Taskforce highlights the potential of floating wind energy in the UK. The report states that the floating wind industry could employ 97,000 people by 2050, particularly in Scottish and Welsh ports, and contribute £47 billion to the economy.
Norway announces subsidies for a commercial tender for floating wind power
- Category: Industry News
The Norwegian government intends to provide up to NOK 35 billion in subsidies for the country's first commercial floating wind tender. The government's budget document clarified that this subsidy amount is based on a reference project of about 500 MW.
- Global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match the entire power capacity of major economies today
- Kent secures contract for concept design of offshore substation for Five Estuaries offshore wind farm
- Nordex' order intake grows to 5.1 GW in the first nine months of 2024
- Blackfish Engineering partners with AJT Engineering to bring C-Dart system to market
- North Star initiates industry partnership to develop SOV for floating offshore wind
- Vaisala selected as wind lidar provider for wind-assisted propulsion project
- Yutong Huang assumes leadership of windtest north-america’s technical team
- Vard to construct Commissioning Service Operation Vessel for Navigare Capital Partners
- Nordex Group secures 500 MW turbine orders from Canada
- RWE and TotalEnergies to jointly develop 4 GW offshore wind projects in Germany
- Canada introduces legislation to support offshore wind development
- Hitachi Energy develops 500 kV variable shunt reactor for wind farm in Uzbekistan
- Dominion Energy Virginia, American Electric Power, and FirstEnergy Corp. enter joint planning agreement for new transmission projects
- Roshan Saldanha appointed new Chief Financial Officer at OX2
- Alterric strengthens management team
- Equinor increases shareholding in Ørsted
- Full Circle acquired by Renew Holdings
- FibreMax receives Approval in Principal from ClassNK
- Sif and Smulders strengthen cooperation for offshore wind foundations
- Envision Energy introduces 5MW onshore wind turbine for India
- Avangrid awarded federal capacity contract for Maine Transmission Project
- EasyDC-FOS: developing advanced HVDC cables with intelligent monitoring
- RWE signs framework agreement for monopile foundations with Steelwind
- Maryland Energy Administration opens application window for offshore wind workforce training grants
- RWE unveils first turbine blade for Sofia Offshore Wind Farm at Siemens Gamesa factory in Hull
- DTU Wind and Energy Systems: strategic realignment for the green transition
- DOE announces funding to improve the recycling of wind energy technologies
- Natural Power appoints Head of Grid Services
- Green Genius secures EBRD investment for European expansion
- OnPath Energy secures financing for development of its onshore renewable projects in the UK
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