18 May 2026
Photo by Marian Florinel Condruz Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has granted development consent to three major offshore wind farms on the same day as the King’s Speech, adding up to 4GW of new North Sea generating capacity, equivalent to a quarter of the UK’s entire current offshore wind fleet. The decisions, announced on 13 […]
20 Jan 2026
Photo by Nicholas Doherty The UK has secured a record 8.4 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity in Europe’s largest ever offshore wind auction, with contracts awarded at prices 40% cheaper than building new gas power plants. The seventh allocation round (AR7) awarded 8.2 GW of bottom-fixed offshore wind and almost 200 MW of floating offshore wind […]
21 Oct 2025
One of the largest artificial reefs in the world has been installed at a wind farm off the Sussex coast in what operators describe as a “global first”. The project at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm saw 75,000 specially designed “reef cubes” placed at the base of a single turbine, representing the first full-scale […]
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 […]
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 […]