14 Nov 2023
The Crown Estate is taking steps to enable the generation of up to an additional 4GW of green electricity from several offshore wind farm projects in development, within the timeframe of the Government’s offshore wind target of 50GW by 2030. This follows requests from the developers of seven offshore wind farm projects who believe additional […]
24 Oct 2023
Floating offshore wind developments bring different potential shipping, navigation and aviation risk and impacts when compared to fixed foundation projects. To support the safe and sustainable growth of floating offshore wind, it is essential that industry guidance, tools and assessment practices are fit for purpose in identifying any potential impacts and ensuring appropriate mitigation measures […]
17 Oct 2023
RWE has launched its first global “Floating Wind Co- use Competition”. The company is looking for solutions to promote co-existence with other sea users and biodiversity enhancement. Making the difference in two domains: Biodiversity and co-existence with other sea users RWE invites start-ups, scale-ups, research institutes as well as other individuals and organisations to propose […]
17 Oct 2023
Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm is now fully operational and generating clean, renewable energy to Britain’s power grid, SSE Renewables and its partner TotalEnergies have announced. Seagreen, located 27km off the Angus coast in the North Sea’s Firth of Forth, is now Scotland’s largest wind farm as well as the world’s deepest fixed-bottom offshore wind […]
03 Oct 2023
The development of offshore renewable energy in Europe yields ambiguous results, the European Court of Auditors warns in a new report. EU action and money have contributed to the development of ‘blue energy’ in pursuit of the bloc’s climate and energy objectives. But the EU may fall short of its ambitions, the auditors say, while […]
03 Oct 2023
The Crown Estate has set out further details on its plans for Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5, which aims to establish new floating offshore wind technology off the coast of Wales and South West England. This latest update follows a period of engagement with developers and wider stakeholders on proposals set out in July over […]
12 Sep 2023
Britain’s climate ambitions have suffered a blow after no new offshore windfarms were secured in the government’s latest clean energy auction despite there being the potential for 5 gigawatts of projects – enough to power 8m homes a year. While it did result in contracts for a total of 3.7GW of solar power, onshore wind […]
05 Sep 2023
Offshore construction has officially started at RWE’s 1.4 gigawatt (GW) Sofia Offshore Wind Farm, to install essential subsea cable infrastructure from the UK’s north east coast to the wind farm site on Dogger Bank, in the central North Sea. Cable contractor Prysmian’s high-tech Leonardo da Vinci vessel will lay the first section of high voltage direct current […]
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