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Subsea Redesign Underway for Floating Offshore Wind

Dec 23, 2024

The 66kV high voltage wet mate connector currently undergoing technical qualification by Baker Hughes weighs in at around one ton and has over 40 liters of dielectric oil protecting copper cable up to 1,200 square millimeters in diameter.The connector is designed to sit on the seabed at the end of a dynamic cable coming from floating wind turbines and connect it to a collector hub that ultimately delivers the megawatts of energy it produces to a subsea substation and then to shore…

VARD Snags $125M Shipbuilding Deal for Subsea Construction Vessel

Apr 03, 2025

VARD signed a contract with Taiwan's Dong Fang Offshore for the design and construction of one Offshore Subsea Construction Vessel, with option(s). The vessel is of VARD 3 39 design, and the value of the contract is $125 million. This is the third vessel VARD is building for DFO…

CIP Reaches Financial Close for Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan

Mar 19, 2025

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its fund Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V), has reached financial close on the 495 MW Fengmiao I offshore wind project off the coast of Taichung in Taiwan.Fengmiao I project has secured an approximately $3…

ORE Catapult and Japan’s FLOWRA to Jointly Advance Floating Wind

Mar 11, 2025

The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the Japanese Floating Wind Technology Research Association (FLOWRA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together to reduce development risks and costs of floating offshore wind…

Second Hai Long Substation Heads to Project Site Offshore Taiwan

Mar 11, 2025

Consortium partners Semco Maritime and PTSC M&C have completed the load-out and sail-away of the second and last offshore substation for the Hai Long Offshore wind project in Taiwan.The load-out and sail-away of the second substation for Hai Long 3 offshore wind farm…

China Unveils Plans for New Offshore Wind Farms to Tackle Carbon Emissions

Mar 05, 2025

China said on Wednesday it would develop a package of major projects to tackle climate change as it moves to bring its carbon dioxide emissions to a peak before 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060.The world's largest producer of climate-warming…

Vestas Lands First 15MW Offshore Wind Turbine Order in Asia Pacific

Dec 27, 2024

Vestas has received a 315 MW turbine supply order for the Oga Katagami Akita offshore wind project in Akita Prefecture in Japan.The project is being developed by Oga Katagami Akita Offshore Green Energy, a consortium consisting of JERA, Electric Power Development (J-POWER)…

Global Offshore Wind Stumbles to the End of '24

Nov 18, 2024

Soaring costs, project delays and limited investment put targets out of reachAfter a year of canceled projects, broken turbines, and abandoned lease sales, the global offshore wind industry no longer has much chance to hit the lofty targets set by governments in the U…

Floating Wind and the Taming of Subsea Spaghetti

Oct 31, 2024

Preparing for industrialization, the floating offshore wind industry is tackling its unique mooring and cabling challenges.The idea of keeping floating offshore wind platforms in place using dynamic positioning has been considered. The trouble…

Equinor Tries Again for a Japan Offshore Wind Lease

Oct 22, 2024

Norwegian energy company Equinor has submitted a bid to develop an offshore wind farm together with other companies in the latest round of Japan's state auctions, two sources said, as it seeks a foothold in the fledgling market.Equinor's bid…

Chinese Demand Spurs Global Wind Turbine Ordering

Sep 16, 2024

Global onshore wind turbine orders hit 91.2 gigawatts (GWs) in the first half of the year, a 23% year-on-year rise, due to higher demand in the second quarter from China's northern region, Wood Mackenzie said in a report on Monday.China's wind…

1.1 GW Floating Offshore Wind Farm earns Key Approval

Aug 29, 2024

Mainstream Renewable Power, the pureplay global wind and solar company majority-owned by Aker Horizons ASA, announced that joint venture KF Wind, a 1,125 MW floating offshore wind project being developed off the coast of Ulsan and owned by Mainstream (33…

China's First Purpose-built Offshore Wind SOVs Delivered

Aug 28, 2024

Shanghai Electric earlier this month celebrated the combined naming and delivery of two service operation vessels (SOV) at ZPMC, Qidong base, China. The vessels are based on two different ship designs from Ulstein Design & Solutions AS and are…

Equinor Pulls Out of Vietnam's Offshore Wind Industry

Aug 23, 2024

Norway's state-controlled energy giant Equinor has cancelled plans to invest in Vietnam's offshore wind sector, a company spokesperson told Reuters, in a setback for the Southeast Asian country's green power ambitions.Vietnam has attracted international…

"World's Most Powerful Floating Wind Turbine" Sets Sail

Aug 19, 2024

OceanX, which is reported by its developer MingYang Group to be the world's largest single capacity floating wind power platform, embarked on its journey from Guangzhou to the Yangjiang Mingyang Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm in Guangdong, China…

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