Offshore Grid News
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Atlantic Offshore Wind Transmission Action Plan Released
This week (Sept 19) the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of the Interior released An Action Plan for Offshore Wind Transmission Development in the U.S. Atlantic Region. The plan details how wind resources could efficiently be captured off the Atlantic Coast of the United States and delivered to communities as clean, reliable power. It outlines immediate actions needed to connect ...
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Major Order for Siemens Energy Enables Transmission of Wind Power for 4 Million People
In future, a single grid connection will transport up to two gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power to the onshore power grid. This is made possible by converter systems provided by Siemens Energy and Spanish company Dragados Offshore. The German transmission system operator Amprion has awarded the world's first order for two of these systems to the consortium. In total, up to four gigawatts of ...
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PPL and Elia Group to Develop Innovative Transmission Solutions for New England Offshore Wind
PPL Corporation, through its subsidiary PPL TransLink Inc., and Elia Group, through its subsidiary WindGrid, this week (Oct 24) announced an agreement to develop and propose innovative transmission solutions to reliably and efficiently integrate future offshore wind capacity to the onshore grid in the New England region. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to ...
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Bombora completes tank testing of a floating hybrid energy platform
As part of the EuropeWave Programme, Bombora Wave Power (Bombora) has successfully completed tank testing of a floating foundation system suitable for the InSPIRE solution, where mWave technology is combined with a wind turbine onto a single floating offshore platform. An adapted version of the semi-submersible INSPIRE platform, developed in partnership with TechnipFMC, underwent tank testing ...
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JC Sandberg Joins American Clean Power Association As Chief Advocacy Officer
The American Clean Power Association (ACP) announced today that JC Sandberg will assume the role of Chief Advocacy Officer (CAO). Sandberg brings to the job more than two decades of legislative, regulatory and corporate experience where he has established himself as a policy expert and trusted voice on energy and infrastructure issues. In this newly-created role as CAO, Sandberg will lead ...
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Landis+Gyr Secures Major Contract With Partner EDF to Deliver 650,000 SMETS2 Meters
Landis+Gyr this week announced that it has secured an additional major contract through its partnership with EDF. The agreement builds on the existing relationship between the two companies, and will see Landis+Gyr provide a further 650,000 SMETS2 gas and electricity meters by June 2025, following the initial order of 500,000 meters. As one of the UK's largest energy suppliers with approximately ...
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Eight Governments pledge to kickstart offshore wind in the Baltic Sea
At an Offshore Wind Conference, hosted by the Polish Wind Energy Association (PSEW), high-level representatives of eight Baltic Sea countries and the European Commission signed a joint declaration to accelerate the build-out of new offshore wind capacities in the Baltic Sea. Among the signatories of the Baltic Sea Offshore Wind Declaration are Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, ...
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Europe installs record 3.6 GW offshore wind in 2019; Shell-EDPR group sets lowest US offshore price
Our pick of the latest wind power news you need to know. Europe offshore wind installs rise 33% on year to 3.6 GW Europe installed a record 3.6 GW of offshore wind capacity in 2019, led by continuing growth in the dominant UK and German markets, industry association WindEurope said in its annual market report published February 6. Installations were 33% higher than in 2018 and 16% higher ...
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UK offshore developers predict savings from plug-in grid
A new meshed offshore grid design being assessed by UK authorities could support clusters of projects further from shore and reduce the need for energy storage, industry experts told New Energy Update. Earlier this month, UK energy regulator Ofgem announced it would develop a new offshore transmission system to minimize the cost of rapid growth in offshore wind power in the coming years. ...
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Windy December lifts Orsted 2019 profit; UK to develop new offshore grid networks
Our pick of the latest wind power news you need to know. Orsted beats operating profit outlook after windy December Orsted, the world's largest offshore wind developer, beat its full-year operating profit outlook in 2019, but expects slightly lower earnings in 2020, the company announced January 30. Annual earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose by ...
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New York Power Authority Releases Report on Learnings from European Wind Projects
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) recently (8/7) shared key learnings from a study of European offshore wind transmission models that will help guide New York State as it moves aggressively towards its 9 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind goal by 2035 and inform regional and national offshore wind development. The report, commissioned by NYPA and its New York State energy partners, identified healthy ...
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Siemens Gamesa's High-Performance Energy Storage Facility Enters Final Construction Phase
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) will soon be celebrating the topping-out ceremony of its electric thermal energy storage (ETES) facility in Hamburg-Altenwerder. With this innovative storage system, Siemens Gamesa is providing an answer to one of the central challenges facing the energy transition: how to make the supply and demand for electricity from renewable energy sources more ...
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Oceaneering to Attend Upcoming Conferences in June 2016
Oceaneering International, Inc. (“Oceaneering” or the “Company”) (NYSE:OII) announced today that members of management will meet with institutional investors at the following upcoming conferences in June 2016. June 7: RBC Capital Markets Global Energy and Power Executive Conference in New York. June 15: TPH Hotter ‘N Hell Conference in Houston. June 21: Wells Fargo ...
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Oceaneering to Participate at the RBC Capital Markets Global Energy and Power Executive Conference
Oceaneering International, Inc. (“Oceaneering” or the “Company”) (NYSE:OII) announced today that Chief Executive Officer M. Kevin McEvoy and other members of management will meet with institutional investors at the RBC Capital Markets Global Energy and Power Executive Conference in New York, New York on Tuesday, June 7, 2016. The conference handout will be made available ...
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New collaborative approach can reduce the cost of clean energy by US$550 billion over the next decade
The world can save an estimated US$550 billion on the cost of deploying clean energy technologies over the next decade, putting them on a path to cost competitiveness, if countries work together to accelerate innovation by unlocking global collaboration. This is one of the key findings in a new report, United Innovations: cost-competitive clean energy through global collaboration, published today ...
By Carbon Trust
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Scotland has opportunity to lead floating wind industry, says new report from the Carbon Trust
A new Carbon Trust report, launched today by Minister for Energy Fergus Ewing MSP at Global Offshore Wind 2015 conference, sets out the current state of the floating wind industry and identifies key technical barriers that need to be addressed to make it a commercial reality. The study, commissioned by the Scottish Government, is the most comprehensive review of floating wind technologies to ...
By Carbon Trust
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Scotland has opportunity to lead floating wind industry, says new report from the Carbon Trust
A new Carbon Trust report, launched today by Minister for Energy Fergus Ewing MSP at Global Offshore Wind 2015 conference, sets out the current state of the floating wind industry and identifies key technical barriers that need to be addressed to make it a commercial reality. The study, commissioned by the Scottish Government, is the most comprehensive review of floating wind technologies to ...
By Carbon Trust
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Wind Power Beats Nuclear Again in China
China, the country that is building more nuclear reactors than any other, continued to get more electricity from the wind than from nuclear power plants in 2014. This came despite below-average wind speeds for the year. The electricity generated by China’s wind farms in 2014—-16 percent more than the year before—-could power more than 110 million Chinese homes. China added a ...
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Offshore wind installations stabilise in 2014 following record figures the previous year
In 2014, 408 new offshore turbines were fully grid connected, adding 1,483 MW to the European system. The total installed capacity for Europe now stands at 8,045MW in 74 offshore wind farms in 11 European countries. Justin Wilkes, deputy chief executive officer of the European Wind Energy Association, said: "It is not surprising that we see a levelling-off of installations in 2014 following a ...
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`The North Seas as the energy pool of Europe`
Members of European, national and regional parliaments signed a Joint Declaration on the North Seas Countries Offshore Grid Initiative (NSCOGI) expressing the need for a stronger cooperation among the 10 NSCOGI countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom). The North Seas Countries Offshore Grid Initiative (NSCOGI) was ...
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