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TotalEnergies, Green Investment, RIDG Bid on Scottish Offshore Wind Project

A consortium of TotalEnergies, Macquarie’s Green Investment Group and Scottish developer RIDG has announced their bid for an offshore wind project in an area...

Siemens Gamesa Extends East Anglia ONE Offshore Service

Siemens Gamesa has extended its original contract term for servicing the 714 MW East Anglia ONE wind power plant from five to 15 years...

Massachusetts Governor Announces Offshore Wind Workforce Development Report

Advancing efforts to build a skilled, diverse and equitable offshore wind workforce in the commonwealth, the Baker-Polito administration has released a new report assessing...

Catto Passes RES CEO Responsibilities to Eduardo Medina

After five years, Ivor Catto is stepping down as group CEO of RES, an independent renewable energy company. Under his leadership, RES has more...

Chartwell Marine, Zelim Design Unmanned Rescue Vessel for Offshore Wind Sites

Zelim, a start-up developing a lifesaving system for offshore energy, has partnered with naval architect Chartwell Marine to deliver a remotely operated rescue vessel....

Dominion Energy, Trade Unions Partner on Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project

Dominion Energy Virginia, the NABTU and the NABTU's state affiliate, Virginia Building Trades, have reaffirmed their commitment to the participation of a unionized workforce...

Vineyard Wind Proposes Up To 1.2 GW of Massachusetts Offshore Wind Via RFP

Vineyard Wind says it has submitted two proposals in response to the request for proposals (RFP) for offshore wind energy projects in Massachusetts. The “Commonwealth...

GE Working to Make 3D-Printed Wind Turbine Components a Reality

GE, Fraunhofer IGCV and voxeljet AG have formed a research partnership to develop the world’s largest 3D printer for offshore wind applications in order...

Orsted Names New CEO of Orsted Onshore

Ørsted has appointed Neil O’Donovan as CEO of the Onshore business and a new member of the executive committee. He has acted as interim...

Vineyard Wind Becomes First U.S. Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Farm to Reach Financial Close

Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables subsidiary and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has achieved financial close for the company’s first project. Working with...

Sulzer Schmid, ENERTRAG Betrieb Release Lightning Protection Testing Process

Sulzer Schmid and ENERTRAG Betrieb have teamed up to provide a new wind turbine blade inspection solution that integrates ENERTRAG Betrieb’s lightning protection systems...

SWEPCO Begins Operations at Maverick Wind Farm

The second of three new wind facilities serving Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) customers in Louisiana and Arkansas has begun commercial operation. The 287...

Norwegian Offshore Wind Project Receives Additional Support

The Ocean Grid project will get financial support of 82.7 million NOK, through the Green Platform scheme, the Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry,...

Australia Introduces Offshore Energy Investment Legislation

The Morrison Government has introduced Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Bill 2021, which will establish a framework for the construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of offshore...

Nordex Erects First N163/5.X Wind Turbine

The Nordex Group has installed the first N163/5.X turbine of the Delta4000 series at the Janneby wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. With its approximately 80-meter...

2020 Sets Record for Wind Generation, DOE Report Shows

Three new reports from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) show record growth in land-based wind energy, significant expansion of the pipeline for offshore...

UL Debuts New Version of Windographer Software Solution

UL has released Windographer 5, a re-engineered version of its software for analyzing, visualizing and validating wind resource data from meteorological towers and remote...

NextEra Energy Completes Acquisition of 400 MW Wind Asset Portfolio

NextEra Energy Partners LP has completed its previously announced acquisition of a 391 MW portfolio of four operating wind assets located in California and...

Eurowind Energy Enters the U.S. Market

Eurowind Energy A/S is stepping into the American market, and will potentially be ready to build in 2022. “The American market is big and very...
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Bedrock Debuts Submarine and Platform for Offshore Wind Energy Surveying

Bedrock Ocean Exploration PBC, a seafloor data platform and service, has launched an autonomous ocean survey offering powered by the company’s proprietary, 100% electric...

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