From the 13th of December until the 14th of January 2022, companies can bid for some of the £285 million a year funding available under the UK government’s flagship Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. The government is hoping its fourth round of CfD will secure 12 GW of capacity. A total, which is more than…

VindØ, the consortium of Danish pension funds and utility companies potentially investing in the Danish energy island concept, has chosen a contracting partnership for their project concept. Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), acting as project managers on behalf of VindØ, have selected ACCIONA, DEMA, MT Højgaard International and Boskalis to develop the project. Collectively known as…

With well publicised difficulties caused by COVID and economic uncertainties, the European offshore wind industry might be forgiven for slowing down a touch. Luckily, that is not the case and as our European news round-up shows, offshore wind is continuously striving for bigger and better. In Italy, the government has received well over sixty expressions…

COP26 saw several ambitious projects announced. None more so than the huge offshore wind-to hydrogen project headlined by Aker. The Norwegian conglomerate, through its Aker Offshore Wind and Aker Clean Hydrogen subsidiaries, launched plans for a 10GW floating offshore wind farm to power floating green hydrogen production facilities in the waters off Scotland. They would…

With £160 million, Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, announced that companies looking for government funding for port infrastructure related to floating offshore wind farms can apply for grant assistance. This new funding is designed to assist with the government’s plan to deliver 1GW of floating offshore wind by 2030, a ninefold increase on current…

COP 26 has seen a slew of announcements from world leaders aimed at grabbing headlines and media inches. But how much is hot air and how much has real wind in its sails? Here’s a roundup of some of the news from Glasgow (and yes Joe, it’s pronounced Glazgo not Glasscow). The EU is aiming…

Aker Offshore Wind (AOW), the renewable energy arm of the Norwegian industrial conglomerate Aker, has announced plans for an underwater substation as part of its joint bid with Ocean Winds for multiple floating wind farms off the east coast of Scotland. Ocean Winds, itself a joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, together with AOW,…

According to ORE Catapult, the UK based research centre for offshore renewable energy, robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) will be worth £1.3 billion to the UK wind (on and offshore) energy market by 2030 and £3.5 billion by 2050. As operations and maintenance (O&M) activities increase in the decades to come in harsher environments, innovations…

The potential for offshore wind in Asia is well known, with countries such as Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, Japan and of course China, having vast potential. But until recently (and except for China) this potential has been slow in realisation. That could be about to change with some significant developments in the Asian offshore wind sector.…

SSE Renewables recently announced the amalgamation of two of their proposed wind farm projects, the Berwick Bank and Marr Bank farms, off the east coast of Scotland. The new project, entitled Berwick Bank, would potentially deliver 4.1GW to the Scottish grid. Situated approximately 40km from the East Lothian coast, the project would deliver enough electricity…