All 80 turbines have finally been installed at the 480MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm off France. The country’s first commercial offshore wind farm is expected to enter production by the end of 2022. Turbine installation has taken under six months, starting in April, with first power delivered from the project [...]

The world's largest offshore wind farm is now fully operational, 55 miles off the coast of Yorkshire. The Hornsea 2 project can generate enough electricity to power about 1.3 million homes - that's enough for a city the size of Manchester. A decade ago renewables made up just 11% of [...]

ReNew Energy Global has secured a $1bn project finance facility to build out 1.3GW of hybrid wind and solar in India. Rabobank led a consortium of 12 international lenders providing the external commercial borrowings loan, which will be used to build a ‘Round-the-Clock’ battery-enabled complex. The project involves deploying 1.3GW [...]

Research from the Fraunhofer IWES research institute has found that up to 82GW of offshore wind could be realised in the German North and Baltic Seas. This is significantly more than the 70GW of offshore wind energy planned by the German federal government by 2045. The new study has calculated [...]

Orsted has signed a contract with UK engineering and construction company VolkerFitzpatrick for the installation of onshore cables for the 2852MW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm. The contract, which is subject to Orsted taking a final investment decision (FID) on Hornsea 3, will see VolkerFitzpatrick install 240 km of onshore [...]

Several investors are said to be considering making bids for a minority stake in Spanish utility group Iberdrola SA's (BME:IBE) 350-MW Wikinger wind farm in German waters of the Baltic Sea, Reuters reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The potential suitors for a 40% interest in the [...]

The French government has confirmed it will hold a tender for a 1GW offshore wind farm in the Sud Atlantique zone this year. Paris took the decision after mulling over feedback from a recent public consolation phase. The wind farm could be reduced to 800MW during the competitive dialogue, officials [...]

July 29 (Renewables Now) - Axpo Holding AG announced on Thursday it has agreed to sell a 66-MW wind farm in Italy to local energy supplier Edison SpA (BIT:EDNR) as the Swiss renewable power producer and energy trader seeks to focus on new growth initiatives. All necessary approvals for the [...]

The first turbine of RWE’s 342MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm (pictured) was recently commissioned, and is now supplying green electricity to the grid. Nine of the total 38 Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167 DD Flex offshore wind turbines are installed, each with a capacity of close to 9MW, RWE said. Kaskasi [...]

Cadeler has signed an agreement with Orsted for the transport and installation of offshore foundations at the 2852MW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm, off the east coast of the UK. Offshore installation for the wind farm project is expected to begin in 2026. It will be the first time Cadeler [...]

Engineering firm Kent has been awarded a design contract from SSE Renewables for the 4100MW for Berwick Bank project off east Scotland. Kent’s scope is to complete two multidiscipline concept designs for the offshore substation platforms (OSPs), delivering designs for options of both larger capacity OSPs and smaller OSPs of [...]

Fred Olsen and Vestas have installed the first turbine at the 589MW Changfang and Xidao offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The project will eventually feature 62 of Vestas’ V174-9.5MW machines located approximately 15km off the coast of Changhua County. They will be installed on three-legged jackets pin piled jackets which [...]