Tag: offshore wind

Europe – To accomplish the European offshore wind goals, six European windports will collaborate. The six ports have come to the conclusion that cooperation is necessary in order to meet the agreed-upon capacity of 65 GW of offshore wind energy in 2030.

Poland – Hitachi Energy has been chosen by Equinor and Polenergia to provide the electrical system infrastructure for the Polish offshore wind projects MFW Baltyk II and MFW Baltyk III.

United Kingdom – Since its commissioning in 2017, Hywind Scotland, the first floating offshore wind farm in the world, has been in operation for over five years.

The Netherlands – The tender for the construction of an offshore wind farm at Hollandse Kust (west) lot VI was won by Shell and Eneco’s joint venture Ecowende, according to the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO).

The Netherlands – Fugro has been given two contracts to do geotechnical research for the development of the offshore wind zones in the Dutch IJmuiden Ver Site V-VI, Nederwiek (zuid) Site I, and Hollandse Kust (west) Site VIII.

The Netherlands – Offshore wind is unlikely to be profitable by 2030 under existing national policies and in the absence of a specific goal for industrial electrification. This is in accordance with a white paper released by impartial research organization TNO.

The Netherlands – ABP, the Netherlands’ largest pension fund, plans to make direct investments in large-scale wind energy generation and management in the North Sea. The Noordzeker collaboration was formed with this purpose in mind. IJmuiden Ver is the first offshore wind farm that Noordzeker will tender.