The Netherlands’ Hollandse Kust Zuid 1.5 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind farm – the first subsidy-free wind farm in Europe – is now inaugurated. Hollandse Kust Zuid is in the North Sea, 18-36 kilometers (11-22 miles) off the Dutch coast between the towns of Scheveningen and Zandvoort. It’s jointly owned by Vattenfall, BASF, [...]

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review of the proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) commercial project. The CVOW project, being developed by Dominion Energy and located offshore Virginia Beach, Virginia, would provide up to 2.6GW of clean, reliable offshore wind energy. A Notice [...]

Plans for a large offshore wind farm off north Wales have been given the green light by the UK government. Awel y Môr is described by its developer as "Wales' largest renewable energy investment this decade". In 2021 Awel y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Ltd reduced its proposal from 91 [...]

Offshore geotechnical data specialist Geoquip Marine has started gathering crucial engineering information to support the proposed MarramWind floating offshore wind farm off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The project is a joint venture between ScottishPower and Shell. To support the development, Geoquip will perform a complete geotechnical investigation to gather [...]

UK provider of onshore wind crane and installation services, Global Wind Projects, has completed its first onshore wind contract in Ireland. The company, which was created in April 2021 by Global Port Services, part of Global Energy Group, clinched contracts to provide installation and M&E completion services for long term [...]

Shell and Eneco JV Ecowende has awarded Van Oord the contract to transport and install the foundations of Hollandse Kust (west) lot VI offshore wind farm. Van Oord will also design, procure and lay the connecting cables between the wind turbines as well as handling the transportation and installation of [...]

Swedish law firms have called for changes to regulatory frameworks to ensure greater certainty around permitting of wind projects in the country. More than 10 law firms have written a joint open letter, published by the Swedish wind association, Svensk Vindenergi, requesting wind projects to be “put on an equal footing” with [...]

RES is in the early stages of exploring the potential to build a wind farm approximately 4km north east of Plumbridge in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Based on initial studies, the 12-turbine Mullaghclogher Wind Farm would be capable of generating up to 72MW, enough to power around 86,000 homes with clean, [...]

The global offshore wind industry delivered its second best year for new capacity ever in 2022, with 8800MW of energy connected to the grid around the world, according to a new Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) report. Global Offshore Wind Report 2023 forecasts that 380GW of new offshore wind will [...]

Europe installed 2100MW of new offshore wind in the first half of 2023, bringing its total offshore wind capacity to 32GW. Over half of this was in the Netherlands with the rest in the UK, Germany and Norway, according to statistics from WindEurope, which also found final investment decisions were [...]

RWE has appointed DeepOcean as preferred supplier of subsea installation services for the Nordseecluster A offshore wind development off the German coast. The development combines four wind farm sites in the eastern part of the German North Sea into a 1.6GW project, consisting of a minimum of 104 wind turbines. [...]

OEG Group company 23 Degrees Renewables (23D) has carried out trenching and burial works on submarine export wires and associated protection pipes for an unnamed European cable company in the north east of Scotland. The project work scope included trenching and burial works on three 225kV submarine export lines and [...]