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According to the latest data released by GWEC, the global offshore wind industry installed over 6GW of new capacity in 2020. This growth was driven by China, which installed over half of the new offshore wind capacity globally last year.
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The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is launching an Offshore Wind Investment Programme to support the delivery of manufacturing investment in the offshore wind supply chain. It may provide grant funding for major investments in the manufacture of strategically important offshore wind components in certain disadvantaged or deprived regions in the UK.
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MEC Intelligence (MEC+) and Global Wind Energy Council India (GWEC India) have announced that the two organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together on building out market intelligence and policy recommendations to accelerate India’s energy transition.
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A study commissioned by the New York State Economic Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) finds a substantial number of opportunities for mariners to supplement their income in the emerging US offshore wind industry.
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In partnership with SeaBot XR, an agency for learning products and services, and the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Fugro has launched MASSPeople, the Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) International Training Standards Working Group.
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By the end of the decade, BNEF expects cumulative capacity to breach the 200GW mark, reaching 206GW. 2020 was a slow year for global installations, with just 6GW of new capacity coming online.
- Twelve UK companies receive funding and support from the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership
- Two-part documentary podcast exploring the potential of floating offshore wind
- U.S. Department of Energy announces fund for transformative clean energy solutions
- Records set for global offshore wind financial investment in 2020
- Total to outpace Iberdrola and Ørsted on renewable power capacity by 2030
- Delay to Scottish offshore wind leasing
- OWA publishes new design recommendations to prevent export cable failure
- Offshore wind industry installed 5,206MW in 2020
- Latest UK seabed leasing risks raising costs of offshore wind
- Europe invests a record €26bn in offshore wind
- US wind developers commission 10GW of wind energy in Q4 2020
- New Directors join Scottish Renewables’ Board
- Consortium awards $2.6million to advance offshore wind innovation
- Onshore wind energy scores lowest ever price under new Spanish auction design
- South Africa to auction 6,800MW of renewables
- DecomBlades consortium awarded funding for wind turbine blade recycling project
- IWEA rebrands as Wind Energy Ireland
- AREG and European Space Agency sign MOI to support renewables sector through space-based activities
- TenneT scaling up transmission capacity standard to accelerate offshore wind deployment
- TenneT announces tenders for offshore grid connections
- DOE and federal partners announce funding for offshore wind environmental research
- Application window opens for ScotWind Leasing
- NREL and project partners team-up to advance species conservation and wind energy deployment
- 45GW of renewable energy capacity is in the European auction pipeline
- New Jersey to invest in manufacturing facility to build monopiles for offshore wind turbines
- SECI issues Request for Selection for 1200MW in India
- New study to pave way for SME offshore wind work
- Scottish offshore wind to green hydrogen opportunity assessment
- The Netherlands and Denmark explore opportunities for offshore energy hub
- Norway launches wind power research centre