EnBW North America gears up for NY Bight lease sale
With its eyes on the proposed New York Bight offshore wind lease sale, EnBW North America, a subsidiary of Germany’s EnBW AG, has made leadership team changes that will see long-term acting
Offshore Wind
North Star to build world’s first hybrid daughter craft
Daughter craft are used by the offshore wind industry to safely transfer technicians between the in-field service operation vessel (SOV), where they live while working offshore, to the wind turbines to undertake
ABS classes a floating wind farm
WindFloat Atlantic, 20 kilometers off the coast of Viana do Castello, Portugal, has become the world’s first offshore wind farm to be in class with a classification society, after its three 8.4
DEME in LNG-fueled cable laying first
DEME Offshore’s DP3 vessel Living Stone has successfully installed the DolWin6 High Voltage DC (HVDC) cable in the North Sea. This is the first time a cable laying vessel has installed cables
Maine law prohibits offshore wind projects in state waters, but …
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law legislation prohibiting new offshore wind projects in state waters. According to her office, the prohibition preserves state waters—where up to 75% of Maine’s commercial
Ørsted bids for Maryland’s Skipjack Wind 2
Ørsted said today that it has submitted a bid to the Maryland Public Service Commission to develop Skipjack Wind 2, a proposed project of up to 760 MW. The bid is in
Island Offshore wins SOV contract on floating wind farm
Equinor has awarded Ulsteinvik, Norway, headquartered Island Offshore a contract for service operation vessel (SOV) for the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm project in Norway. The contract will be served by W2W
BOEM set to prepare Dominion Energy offshore wind EIS
Another U.S. offshore wind project looks to be rolling smoothly along the regulatory track. Dominion Energy reports that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is publishing in the Federal Register the
Schottel thrusters for giant crane ship are on their way to Chinese yard
The main propulsion package for Jan De Nul’s latest heavy-lift crane vessel Les Alizés has left the Schottel production plant in Wismar, Germany, on its way to the CMHI Haimen shipyard in
New Jersey makes two major offshore wind awards
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) today awarded a combined 2,658 MW of offshore wind capacity to EDF/Shell’s Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind and Ørsted’s Ocean Wind II, bringing the state’s