According to estimates by the research firm IDTechEx, by the middle of this century, renewable energy sources such as solar power and wind power will increasingly become the world’s main source of electricity. Due to the variability in electricity generation provided by renewable energy sources, energy storage systems are needed to ensure a stable, balanced […]
Beijixing.com: Recently, 8 departments including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly issued the […]
Recently, Aker Solutions, an offshore giant, launched a submarine cable connection device that can greatly reduce the costs related to collector circuits in offshore wind projects. In early European offshore wind projects, the on-site collector circuits were generally arranged in a ring because low system reliability and high electricity price could result in huge losses […]
The Sleipner field center, along with the Gudrun platform and other associated fields, is now partly operating on power from shore. This will reduce annual emissions from the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) by 160,000 tonnes of CO2. All installations on the Utsira High are now receiving power from shore, saving emissions amounting to about […]
This new award is a recognition to an individual, organisation or initiative which positively drives the floating offshore wind industry forward. The first one of its kind will be handed out during Floating Wind Days in May. Norwegian Offshore Wind, Norway´s largest industrial cluster and the organiser of Floating Wind Days, is now seeking nominees for […]
Norwegian outfit Edda Wind has taken delivery of a newbuild SOV from Spain’s Astilleros Balenciaga. The vessel C416, to be renamed Edda Goelo, will be the permanent vessel in the contract with Siemens Gamesa at the 496MW Saint-Brieuc wind farm in France, running until second quarter 2028. The ship has been designed with flexibility and […]
The award of 1.5 GW of floating wind capacity in Norway, which was planned for this year, will be held in 2025 as the Norwegian government plans to have the subsidy model in place and announced before allocating the Utsira Nord (Utsira North) offshore areas for development. The government says the decision to establish and […]
Basque Energy Cluster and Norwegian Offshore Wind sign document at Bilbao conference. The Basque Energy Cluster and Norwegian Offshore Wind (NOW) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen collaboration between the supply chains in Norway and the Basque Country. The agreement was signed at WindEurope Annual Event 2024 in Bilbao this week. Basque […]
Pair’s Ventyr Nordsjø 2 project is now expected to be the first in the area. Parkwind and the Ingka Group’s Ventyr Nordsjø 2 has won Norway’s first auction to develop offshore wind in Sørlige Nordsjø 2. The winning bid in the auction is 115 øre/kWh and two players participated in the auction. Energy Minister […]