Offshore Renewable Energy - Mar 21st, 2024
 
 
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March 21, 2024
Britain’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has included two ports on a primary list for potential funding to help upgrade their facilities to support floating offshore wind.
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Amin Nasser says the focus should be more on reducing emissions, efficiency improvements.
RWE has signed a letter of support with the Port Authority of A Coruña in Galicia, northwest Spain, to help scale up port capacity to support the nation’s floating offshore wind targets.
Patrick Lammers, former COO – Commercial at E.ON, has joined Skyborn Renewables as CEO, effective June 1.
Nexans has gained its first call-off work under a framework agreement with Dutch/German energy group TenneT, awarded in April 2023.
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Classification society says it has performed studies on the impacts of wind, waves, and currents on these structures.
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has finalized its designation of a wind energy area in the Gulf of Maine.
Sulmara has won a contract to perform site characterization at the Stromar floating offshore wind farm location in northern Scotland.
MassCEC has invested $134,620 in two US-based companies to help advance their offshore wind technologies.
Osbit has installed a cable fatigue test rig at ORE Catapult's new National Floating Wind Innovation Centre.
Engineering firm receives approval in principle for offshore wind turbine feedering solution.
Kailia Offshore involves the installation of up to 78 floating wind turbines with a projected capacity of 1,170 MW and production of about 3.4 billion kWh/year.