09/13/2023
Until tomorrow afternoon, the wind industry will be meeting in Germany for the HUSUM Wind trade fair. The German Federal Minister of Economics, Robert Habeck, did not miss the opportunity to return to his personal origins and opened the trade fair on Tuesday - as he did more than ten years ago when he was still the Minister of the Environment of Schleswig-Holstein where Husum is located. He met an industry in a spirit of optimism.
Ørsted has renewed a framework agreement with Hitachi Energy to support the developer's global portfolio of offshore wind farms inclusing the planned 1.5-GW Skåne offshore wind farm in Sweden.
Grid operator TenneT and RWE have signed contracts for an offshore grid connection of RWE's OranjeWind offshore wind farm.
The 806 MW project is located 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod and will generate electricity for more than 400,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts.
The aim is to enable the development of offshore wind farms with a net-positive impact in the near future.
On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her annual State of the European Union speech. As she addressed the EU Green Deal, the President stressed that the wind industry, so central to its delivery, was facing a unique set of challenges. To address these challenges, President von der Leyen announced a new ‘Wind Power Package’. And concluded: ”The future of our clean tech industry has to be made in Europe”.
The cooperative relationship between Ulsan Metropolitan City and Ocean Winds aims at developing a 1.2 GW KF Wind floating offshore wind project off the coast of Ulsan.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review of the proposed Empire Wind Farm Project offshore New York.
Vestas wins a 243 MW turbine order from RWE in the United States.
As planned, the extraordinary General Meeting of Von Roll Holding AG took place on September 13, 2023 at 10.30 a.m. at the Headquarters of the company in Breitenbach (Switzerland). All proposals presented by the Board of Directors were approved by a large majority of the shareholders.
Both parties expect promising synergies in the access to the international offshore wind market.
The development of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea is a crucial step towards Poland's transition to a greener and more sustainable energy future.
Statkraft has purchased 18.69% of the shares in its Brazilian subsidiary Statkraft Energias Renováveis (SKER) to become its sole owner.
The analysis shows that there is a workforce ‘goldilocks zone’ between 2024 and 2028 when the UK supply chain capacity and capability can be sustained, developed and invested in, so that the transferability of the offshore energy workforce is optimised.
The industry needs to approach a strategy for environmental data collection, storage, and sharing on a larger, more comprehensive scale to support industry-wide learning, overcome obstacles, and make the permitting process more efficient.
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