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Orsted Proposes New Connecticut Offshore Wind Farm

Ørsted has submitted its proposed 1,184 MW Starboard Wind project to Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, which would see the New London...

Cadeler Signs Offshore Turbine Installation Contract for Vessel Wind Scylla

Cadeler has signed a contract with an undisclosed client for its wind farm installation vessel Wind Scylla. The company says the contract’s value ranges between...

ESNA, Strategic Marine to Develop Surface Effect Ship CTV for Offshore Market

ESNA and Strategic Marine have signed an agreement to develop a surface effect ship crew transfer vessel (SES CTV) for offshore wind applications, with...

Deep Wind Offshore Introduces Spoor to New Markets

Deep Wind Offshore will introduce Spoor to the Swedish and South Korean market after it completed its first full-year bird survey in Norway using...

BOEM to Hold Review of Proposed Vineyard Northeast Offshore Project

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will initiate an environmental review of Vineyard Northeast’s proposed 2,600 MW wind project, located 29 miles offshore...

U.K. Government to Support Port Talbot Floating Offshore Wind Hub

Associated British Ports (ABP) welcomes the decision by the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero to advance the Port Talbot project to the...

Amazon Signs PPA with Iberdrola for East Anglia THREE

Iberdrola and Amazon have signed a PPA for 159 MW from the forthcoming East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm in the U.K. The 1.4 GW...

National Grid Announces Multi-Year Grid Update for Upstate New York

National Grid says it plans to invest more than $4 billion to transform its energy delivery system upstate New York, calling the initiative the...

Nexans Secures First Call-Off Under TenneT Framework Agreement

Nexans has secured the first call-off under the 2 GW TenneT framework agreement awarded last April.  This project involves the engineering, procurement, construction and installation...

Arevon, San Diego Community Power Sign Agreement for Avocet Storage Facility

Arevon Energy has entered into a 15-year energy storage service agreement with San Diego Community Power (SDCP) for the full capacity of the Avocet...

Simply Blue Group to Help Develop Seaweed Farm Within Wind Farm

Simply Blue Group has joined the North Sea Farm 1 Project (NSF1) consortium to develop the world’s first commercial-scale seaweed farm located within an...

BOEM Finalizes Gulf of Maine Wind Energy Area

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has finalized its designation of a 2 million acre offshore Gulf of Maine Wind Energy Area (WEA),...

Offshore Wind Milestone: South Fork Comes Online

South Fork Wind, a joint venture offshore project between Ørsted and Eversource located 35 miles east of Montauk Point, N.Y., is now complete and...

Dillinger Signs MoU for First Access to Offshore Foundation Steel

Ørsted has signed an MoU with Dillinger for first offer rights in procuring Dillinger’s lower-emission heavy-plate steel for offshore wind foundations.  The steel plates are...

GEV Wind Power Wins OEM Supplier Safety Awards for Second Time

GEV Wind Power has won the Innovation in Safety and the Safety Performance and Delivery awards at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy’s (SGRE) Annual Contractors...

Lloyd’s Register Issues Project Certificate for CrossWind Hollandse Kust Noord

CrossWind has received a Project Certificate from Lloyd’s Register (LR) for the Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm, located 18.5 km off the Netherlands coast.  The...

Strategic Marine, Prosperous Wind Shipping Deliver Vessel For Yunlin Offshore Project

Strategic Marine and Prosperous Wind Shipping have delivered the StratCat 27 hybrid-ready vessel to support Taiwan’s Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm.  Owned and operated by Prosperous...

Avangrid Releases Kitty Hawk Wind Economic Impact Report

Avangrid has released its Kitty Hawk Wind: Economic & Fiscal Impact report, finding that the project will deliver approximately $4.8 billion in economic impact...

GridStor Acquires Galveston County BESS Project From Balanced Rock Power

GridStor has acquired the 450 MW Evelyn Battery Energy Storage project, located in Galveston County, Texas, from Balanced Rock Power.  The project, expected to begin...

National Grid Announces Shortlisted Locations for LionLink Interconnector

National Grid has announced its chosen landfall, cable route and convertor station locations for its new energy link to the Netherlands: Southwold and Walberswick. The...

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