Offshore wind is expected to experience strong growth globally over the next decade, with Asia and North America and Western Europe (NAWE) set to drive the segment’s expansion. Falling project costs and technology improvements continue to advance the offshore wind sector’s maturity, increasing the attractiveness of projects to developers in markets across the globe.
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ABP, a Dutch pension fund, created the Noordzeker partnership to invest in large-scale wind energy in the North Sea. The group will use the funds to submit bids for major wind farm construction projects in the North Sea. Additionally, it stated that IJmuiden Ver will be the first offshore wind farm for which Noordzeker will issue a tender.
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Siemens Gamesa, a German producer of wind turbines, has been contracted to provide OX2 with 11 of its SG 6.6-170 turbines for the Riberget wind project in Sweden. At the 70 MW wind project, which is situated in Sweden’s Ljusdal municipality, the onshore wind turbines will be installed.
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RWE, a German energy company has won the tender to build the 700 MW Hollandse Kust West (HKW) VII project in the North Sea. The 700 MW HKW VII is one of the two designated sites in the 1.4 GW HKW offshore wind farm zone, and it is situated about 53 km off the Dutch coast.
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Equinor and Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult have partnered to address some of the most significant issues confronting the UK’s offshore renewables industry. The new partnership will build on the two organisations’ previous collaborations.
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Masdar, along with its Dutch joint venture company Infinity Power and Hassan Allam Utilities, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Egypt’s Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy to construct a 10 GW onshore wind project in Egypt. The project will be able to generate 47,790 GWh of clean energy annually as part of the country’s Green Corridor strategy, displacing 23.8 million tonnes of carbon emissions.
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Gwynt Glas Offshore Wind Farm has inked an agreement with Associated British Ports and the Port of Milford Haven to prepare the region for floating wind farms in the Celtic Sea. The projected Gwynt Glas floating offshore wind farm has the potential to generate 1 GW of green energy.
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Mainstream Renewable Power and Ocean Winds have signed a seabed lease agreement with Crown Estate Scotland to construct a floating offshore wind farm. Crown Estate Scotland chose the two companies as the preferred bidders for developing the 1.8 GW project offshore from the Shetland Islands earlier this year.
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BlueFloat Energy, Energy Estate, and Elemental Group have announced plans to build a 900 MW wind project offshore from South Taranaki, New Zealand. The offshore facility, which is 22 km from the coast, is the first of four projects slated for the Aotearoa region that could contribute up to 5 GW of renewable energy capacity.
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Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Project 1, LLC (Atlantic Shores Project 1), a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC (Atlantic Shores), a 50 – 50 partnership between Shell New Energies US LLC and EDF-RE Offshore Development, LLC, announced that it has chosen Ramboll to design and structural engineer the turbine foundations on its 1.5 GW offshore wind project.
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Elenergy, a South Korean renewable energy company, has given a contract as owner’s engineer to Norwegian classification firm DNV for its Chujin fixed-bottom offshore wind project. As per the agreement, DNV will be in charge of the pre-front-end engineering design and will support contractors during the final design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operating stages of the project.
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Enel Green Power Brasil, a subsidiary of the Italian energy corporation Enel, has commenced construction on the 399 MW Lagoa dos Ventos V wind farm in Brazil. Lagoa dos Ventos V, the second addition to the Lagoa dos Ventos wind complex, has 70 wind turbines.
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Vena Energy, based in Singapore, plans to build the Marlin Offshore Wind Project, a 2 GW offshore power facility in Victoria, Australia. Located 23km from the Victorian Coast in the Gippsland Basin, the offshore wind site was first identified by the company in 2017. According to Vena Energy, the project site will benefit from the strong offshore winds.
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The construction of the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm, off the coast of the Netherlands, has commenced with the first monopile installed. Van Oord will set up the project’s 70 monopiles at the HKN site, which is 18 kilometres offshore in Egmond aan Zee, over the upcoming months.
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Vårgrønn, a Norwegian offshore wind company, has finalised the acquisition of Plenitude’s stake in the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind farm in the UK. Vårgrønn is a joint venture between HitecVision, a Norwegian energy investor, and Plenitude, Eni’s energy transition division.
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Plenitude, an Eni subsidiary with operations in Italy, has opened the El Monte wind farm in Spain. The 104.5MW wind farm, which is situated in Castilla La Mancha, has 19 GE wind turbines. The plant has the capacity to generate 300 GWh of renewable energy annually, which is sufficient to power 100,000 homes in the area.
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Ilmatar Energy, a Finnish energy company, has announced plans to develop a 200 MW wind farm in the Vermassalo area of Virrat in Northern Pirkanmaa, Finland. The wind power project will be built on nearly 3,200ha of land owned by Finsilva, a forestry and natural capital company.
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Enercon and Enerjisa Uretim, a joint venture between E.ON and Sabanci Holding, have agreed to install 1 GW of wind energy capacity at Turkey’s YEKA RES II project. Enercon, a German producer of wind turbines, will provide the project with wind energy converter (WEC) technology by delivering 240 of its E-138 EP3 E2 WECs over the next four years.
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InfraRed Capital Partners has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a 49 per cent stake in a portfolio of three operating, utility-scale wind assets in the US from Algonquin Power & Utilities. Algonquin will sell its stake in the 202 MW Sugar Creek project in Illinois, the 149 MW Deerfield wind farm in Michigan, and the 200 MW Odell wind farm in Minnesota.
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Inch Cape Offshore, a partnership between Red Rock Power and ESB, has selected Vestas as the preferred supplier of wind turbines for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland. The 1.1 GW offshore plant, which is 15 km from the Angus Coast, will have 72 V236-15.0 MW turbines.
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