James Fisher and Sons plc (James Fisher) has been awarded a contract for the management, repair and maintenance of high voltage equipment and cables at two of Menter Môn’s Morlais tidal energy substations. The energy generated by Morlais has the potential to reach 240 MW (30 MW per plug-in site), enough to power 180,000 typical households.
World Class Maintenance (WCM) has selected the Asset Management consultants from Stork to conduct de-risking & performance improvement activities for five ground-breaking offshore renewable energy innovations within the Offshore For Sure (O4S) project.
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its Energy Transition Fund, and Uniper have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen collaboration on bringing green hydrogen from CIP’s HØST PtX Esbjerg project to Germany.
The Department of the Interior has announced two proposals for offshore wind energy auctions off the coast of Oregon and in the Gulf of Maine. The two sales proposed by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have the potential to generate more than 18 gigawatts of offshore wind energy, enough to power more than six million homes.
Hitachi Energy and Aibel have signed separate framework agreements with German renewable energy company, RWE, for multiple high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems to accelerate the integration of offshore wind power into the grid.
The offshore substation of Eoliennes en Mer Iles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier wind farm, a project developed by Ocean Winds (an ENGIE and EDPR joint venture), is ready to be installed at sea.
The Australian Government has announced that it has granted a feasibility license for Ørsted’s first offshore wind project in Australia and intends to grant a license for a second project, subject to consultation. With the licenses, Ørsted aims to develop large-scale offshore wind farms off the coast of Gippsland, Victoria, to be operational in the early 2030s.
The Norwegian Ministry of Energy has received applications from eight companies in connection with the announcement of two areas in the North Sea for potential storage of CO2 on the Norwegian shelf.
The ocean energy sector accelerated in 2023, according to the latest statistics released today by Ocean Energy Europe. Low market visibility in the past still impacts 2023 deployment figures but new revenue support at national level drastically changes the outlook. 137 MW of tidal and wave energy projects will seek deployment in the next 5 years thanks to EU funding and national revenue support. This prompted several energy majors to enter the field as investors or partners into projects and is kick-starting the sector’s industrialization.
Ocean Winds, an international company dedicated to offshore wind energy and created as a 50-50 joint venture by EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has been granted a feasibility license by the Australian Government for a 150 km2 area to develop an offshore wind farm in waters off Gippsland, Victoria. These clean energy projects, the first offshore wind ones in Australia, will play a key role in reaching Victoria’s targets of 95% of renewable energy by 2035 with at least 2 GW of offshore wind generation capacity by 2032, 4 GW by 2035 and 9 GW by 2040.
CIP, on behalf of its Flagship Funds, announced it was successful in Australia’s first offshore wind Feasibility License process securing two licenses. CIP has site exclusivity to develop offshore wind projects over two areas one 586 km2 and the other 689 km2. Combined the two projects have the potential to deliver up to 4.4 GW of capacity—enough to power 2.4 million homes.
James Fisher and Sons plc (James Fisher) has been awarded a contract worth over £1 million for the provision of high voltage (HV) specialist personnel and HV safety management services at the Zhong Neng offshore wind farm in Taiwan.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review of Beacon Wind’s proposal to test suction bucket foundations on its lease area offshore Massachusetts. Based on the analysis in the environmental assessment, BOEM determined that the proposed testing will not cause significant impacts to environmental resources. Suction bucket foundations are an alternative foundation type that allow for installation of turbines without the need for pile driving.
Bureau Veritas (BV) has announced an Approval in Principle (AiP) for TotalEnergies’ Skipe V2 mooring integrity monitoring technology.
UTEC, a brand in marine energy and infrastructure services company Acteon, has been awarded an offshore survey and positioning contract for the Taiwan Power Company (TPC) Phase 2 wind farm project offshore Taiwan.
The US operation of DeepOcean has completed its first campaign under the contract by power cable solution provider NKT to provide subsea construction support for the Champlain Hudson Power Express renewable energy infrastructure project in New York, USA.
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