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Integrated Moog Technology Hopes to Boost Reliability for GE Wind Turbines

Moog has integrated its next-generation slip ring with a fiber optic rotary joint (FORJ) as a replacement for the carbon-brush slip rings that control...

Rovco Awarded Green Volt Contract

Rovco has been awarded the site characterization operations for the Green Volt floating offshore wind farm, located 80 km east of Peterhead in Scotland.  Scheduled...

Ocean Winds, Martifer Partner on Portuguese Wind Power Tender

Ocean Winds has partnered with Martifer Renewables & Energy with the aim of enhancing the companies’ positioning in Portugal's upcoming offshore wind tender, set...

ABS Approves Offshore Wind Installation Technology from CLS Wind

ABS has awarded approval in principle to CLS Wind for its wind turbine assembly system. The patented elevator-style assembly system aims to provide wind turbine...

Nordex Group to Launch N169/5.X Turbine for U.S. Market

The Nordex Group is expanding its 5 MW product portfolio by launching a turbine variant of its Delta4000 platform tailored to the requirements of...

Community Offshore Wind Launches Seabed Geotechnical Survey

Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture of RWE and National Grid Ventures, has contracted Fugro to conduct geotechnical investigation of the project’s lease area...

VINCI to Design, Build and Install North Sea Electrical Conversion Platforms

VINCI, a consortium made up of Dragados Offshore and Siemens Energy, has been awarded a contract by 50Hertz to design, build and install two...

Haewoori Offshore Wind Completes Korea EIA Consultation

The 1.5 GW Haewoori Offshore Wind project, being developed by Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP), has completed its EIA consultation with Korea’s Ministry of Environment...

Three-Company Partnership Aims to Compete for Princess Elisabeth Concessions

Three prominent energy companies — Eneco, Ocean Winds (the joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE dedicated to offshore wind energy) and Otary— have...

SSE, Equinor Establish Seabed Lease Terms for Dogger Bank D Phase

SSE Renewables and Equinor, co-developers of the proposed Dogger Bank D fourth phase of Dogger Bank Wind Farm, have established commercial terms with The...

RWE, Masdar Reach Milestone in Dogger Bank South Wind Farms Project

RWE Offshore Wind and Masdar have achieved a key milestone for the DBS (Dogger Bank South) offshore wind farms as the Development Consent Order...

Eversource Energy Closes on Sunrise Wind Sale

Eversource Energy has completed the sale of its 50% ownership share in the 924 MW Sunrise Wind project to Ørsted.  Gross proceeds of the transaction...

Sulmara Survey Provides Characterization Data for Formosa-4 Offshore Project

Sulmara has delivered site characterization data for the Synera Renewable Energy (SRE) project in Taiwan. The project, jointly developed by SRE and local partners, is...

Avangrid, Dominion Agree on Kitty Hawk North Offshore Lease Area Sale

Avangrid has reached an agreement on the sale of the Kitty Hawk North offshore wind lease area to Dominion Energy.  The sale includes the Kitty...

UMaine Advancing VolturnUS Floating Offshore Wind Technology

The University of Maine has been selected to receive $12.5 million through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to advance...

Eastern Green Link 3 HVDC Connection Project Begins Supply Chain Tendering

Invitations to tender for cable and converter work packages have been released for the proposed Eastern Green Link 3 (EGL3) HVDC connection project linking...

DNREC to Hold July Public Hearing on Proposed Offshore Project

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) will hold a joint virtual public hearing on July 9 on permit applications and...

Moray West Delivers Initial Power

Ocean Winds has marked the first export of power to the National Electricity Transmission System (NETS) from its 882 MW Moray West Offshore Wind...

DOI Approves Ninth Offshore Wind Project

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has approved the Atlantic Shores South Offshore Wind Energy Project, the ninth such commercial-scale project approved under President...

Archer Acquires Moreld Ocean Wind

Archer has entered into an agreement with Remold Invest to acquire the floating offshore wind solutions provider Moreld Ocean Wind (MOW), which includes a...

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