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Low-Carbon Installation Vessel Funding for Floating Offshore Wind Awarded

The U.K. government has awarded funding to a Morek Engineering-led consortium to design a class of low-carbon installation vessel for the floating offshore wind...

ORLEN, Northland Power Start Building Service Base for Baltic Offshore Farm

ORLEN Group and Northland Power have begun construction of a service base that will support the Baltic Power offshore wind farm, a joint project...

Skipjack Wind Offshore Development Hits a Snag

Offshore wind power developer Ørsted has withdrawn from the Maryland Public Service Commission orders approving the Skipjack 1 and 2 projects: a 966 MW...

Humboldt Bay Harbor Receives Huge Federal Grant for Floating Offshore Port Terminal

The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District has received a $426.7 million grant from the Federal INFRA program to support the development of...

Orsted Acquires Full Ownership of Sunrise Wind 

Ørsted has signed an agreement with Eversource to acquire Eversource’s 50% share of Sunrise Wind, a 924 MW offshore farm that would deliver power...

Rovco Adds Additional Site Survey Vessel to Company Fleet

Rovco has added a second hull-mounted survey vessel to its fleet with a four-year charter of the DP2 vessel Glomar Worker.   Rovco is converting the...

Two of Five Incat Crowther CTVs Delivered to WINDEA CTV

Two Incat Crowther-designed crew transfer vessels (CTVs) have been delivered to WINDEA CTV, a U.S.-based joint venture owned by MidOcean Wind and Hornblower Wind. The...

U.S. Maritime Administration Awards Federal Grant to Humboldt Wind Terminal Project 

The U.S. Maritime Administration has awarded the Humboldt Heavy Lift Marine Terminal an approximately $8.7 million federal grant to support the project’s use for...

Amazon Remains World’s Largest Corporate Renewables Purchaser

Amazon invested in more than 100 new solar and wind energy projects last year, becoming the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy for...

Vestas Taps ArcelorMittal to Reduce Wind Turbine Tower Carbon Footprint

Vestas says it has established a partnership with ArcelorMittal to launch a low-carbon-emissions steel offering that significantly reduces the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from...

AMSC Providing Wind Turbine Electrical Control Systems to OEM

AMSC has received an $8 million order for its 3 MW class wind turbine electrical control systems (ECS) from Inox Wind Ltd., an India-based...

Floventis Energy Announces Public Consultation on Floating Celtic Sea Wind Farm 

Floventis Energy has confirmed the start of public consultation on Llŷr 1, a test and demonstration floating wind farm situated in the Celtic Sea...

Hollandse Kust Alpha Receives Offshore Grid Connection Certificate Ahead of Schedule

After three years of development and construction, the grid connection for the Hollandse Kust (West) Alpha offshore wind project in the Netherlands is ready...

Vestas to Establish Second Offshore Blade Factory

Vestas has announced plans to establish a new factory in Poland to produce blades for the company’s flagship offshore wind turbine, the V236-15.0 MW. The...

RWE Release Name for Northern California Offshore Project

RWE has released the official name of its Northern California project, Canopy Offshore Wind Farm, near the first anniversary of the company’s successful bid...

GE Vernova to Equip and Service Turbines for Pattern Energy SunZia Wind

GE Vernova's onshore wind business has announced an equipment and services deal with Pattern Energy to supply 674 3.6-1541 turbines with the capacity to...

Vos Supplies Sofia Offshore Farm with Cable Systems, Joint Bend Restrictors

Vos Prodect has supplied the Sofia Offshore Wind Farm, located in the North Sea, with cable hang-off systems and joint bend restrictors. The company’s cable...

Ulstein, J.P. Morgan Sign Build Contracts for Offshore Farm CSOVs 

Ulstein has signed new build contracts with J.P. Morgan for two offshore wind farm Construction Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs), which have been entered into...

Spearmint Energy Completes 300 MWh BESS in ERCOT

Spearmint Energy has completed Revolution, the company’s 150 MW BESS project in West Texas, as well as commenced the project’s commercial operations.  Thirty-four Mortenson team...

Empire Wind 2 Sent into Moth Balls

Equinor and bp are terminating their offshore wind REC agreement for the planned 1.26 GW Empire Wind 2 project off the shores of Long...

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