Energy

A €19.6 million partnership project aiming to be the stepping stone towards large scale wave energy commercialisation, will be launched this week at the International Conference on Ocean Energy in San Sebastian, Spain.

The world is facing a global energy crisis and increased prices for energy. Governments and companies are investing more and more in renewables, energy efficiency and clean technologies. The urge to switch to renewable energy is greater than ever, and concrete actions must be made now in order to accelerate the energy transition.

The Business Network for Offshore Wind has announced a new partnership with Vineyard Wind to educate Massachusetts businesses about opportunities in the offshore wind sector and integrate small businesses as well as those owned by minorities, women, veterans, service-disabled veterans, those with a disability, and LGBT individuals into the local supply chain.

Landmark federal policy, record investments, and new state-level actions drove the U.S. offshore wind industry forward in the third quarter of 2022, with coastal states increasing their long-term targets by 58 percent, a new record for quarterly growth.

The “International Conference on Ocean Energy & Ocean Energy Europe 2022” (ICOE-OEE 2022), the world's leading ocean energy event, will bring together ocean energy professionals and decision-makers from all corners of the globe to Donostia/San Sebastian, from 18-20 October. The event is co-organized by the Basque Energy Cluster Association (ACE) and Ocean Energy Europe (OEE).

New analysis from Westwood Global Energy Group (Westwood), the specialist energy market research and consultancy firm, reveals skyrocketing offshore wind growth with 135 GW of new capacity on offer to developers, equivalent to nearly 2.5 times today’s 55 GW market.

Seajacks International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eneti Inc. recently completed the installation of all 33 wind turbines at the Akita & Noshiro offshore wind farm situated off the Japanese Akita Prefecture coastline.

Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm (PFOWF), a 100MW development key to advancing the global deployment of large-scale floating offshore wind, has selected Stiesdal Offshore’s TetraSub as the floating structure technology for the project.

On October 6th Corvus Energy, a world's leading producer of battery systems for the ocean space, opened a brand-new test area for hydrogen fuel cells at their production site in Bergen, Norway.

The Department of the Interior has announced next steps that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will take to comply with congressional direction on oil and gas leasing through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Aker Solutions, in a consortium with Siemens Energy, has been awarded a limited notice to proceed contract from Vattenfall for the Norfolk Boreas offshore wind project off the coast of Norfolk, UK. Photo: Vattenfall

As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goals of permitting 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030 and deploying 15 gigawatts of floating offshore wind energy capacity by 2035, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it has completed its environmental review of potential impacts from offshore wind energy leasing activities in the Morro Bay Wind Energy Area (WEA), located 20 miles offshore central California.