Offshore Wind Developer Articles & Analysis
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The NRDC blog highlights the benefits of wind and solar energy in rural areas of the Midwest. Wind developers oftentimes pay landowners to host wind turbines, which provides $245 million every year in lease payments to farmers and ranchers in the Midwest. ...
Last month, U.S. group Principle Power announced it would lead a consortium of public and private groups to develop the world's first digital twin software for floating offshore wind applications. ...
In March, Denmark's Orsted announced it is developing green hydrogen projects as part of its bid for the Holland Coast South 3&4 projects in the Netherlands. Orsted is the world's largest offshore wind developer by capacity and plans to increase its installed capacity from 5.6 GW to 15 GW by 2025. Shell, Siemens and power ...
A month earlier, the Norwegian government launched public consultations into opening three sea areas for offshore wind development. The sea areas include Utsira Nord, a 1,010 sq km area located 22 km off the coast of Haugesund which has an average water depth of 267 m, too deep for fixed-bottom projects. ...
A further 5.5 GW of new capacity is expected to be procured in 2020-2022, followed by 6.4 GW in 2022-2025, it said. Forecast US offshore wind contracts by state Source: University of Delaware's Special Initiative on Offshore Wind, March 2019 Growing demand from state authorities and utilities is supporting the ...
Less than a decade ago, offshore wind energy and solar PV were similarly priced energy sources. ...
How procurement strategies, manufacturing costs and new technology stack up against development risk in Offshore Wind Projects. Offshore wind is changing, and it is changing for the better. ...
The existing fleet of turbine and foundation installation vessels is well suited to serve the European offshore wind market in the short and mid-term but it will not be sufficient to support installation demand after 2020, Michael Guldbrandtsen, senior consultant at MAKE Consulting, told Wind Energy Update. ...
To select the right offshore wind site, estimate the future energy output of a wind farm, and determine the best layout for the turbines, project developers must conduct wind resource assessment (WRA) campaigns on site. ...
As offshore wind technology develops ever more gigantic machines further from shore into deeper waters, it is common wisdom that new foundation technologies are needed. ...
It overtook another U.K. project, the 500-megawatt Greater Gabbard wind farm, which was finished in 2012. In all, the United Kingdom has some 12,000 megawatts of offshore wind capacity under construction or in earlier development stages. ...
“In the offshore wind power industry, logistics planning is the dominant driver to avoiding costly mistakes,” highlighted Jim Lanard, President, Offshore Wind Development Coalition. ...
Japan, with just 25 megawatts of offshore wind power capacity, is developing a pilot 16-megawatt floating wind farm project off the coast of Fukushima. ...
The ministers agree to share information to promote enhanced oil recovery techniques The ministers also agreed to work together to encourage developing countries to roll out renewable energy technologies such as offshore wind farms. ...
The necessity for development of offshore wind turbine generation systems has been recognised based on the above backgrounds. An expert committee to survey the prospect of offshore wind turbine generation in Japan was organised last year. In this paper, the prospect of offshore ...