Cerulean Winds has announced plans to build the North Sea Renewables Grid (NRSG), an offshore integrated green power and transmission system powered by offshore wind, that oil and gas platforms can plug into.
Nine European countries are holding a summit to discuss scaling up wind power generation in the North Sea. The summit is being held in Belgium, and will be attended by the leaders of France, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, with Ursula von der Leven, President of the European Commission. Norway and Britain will also be participating.
Japan’s Jera has announced that it intends to acquire the Belgian offshore wind power generation firm Parkwind for €1.55 billion.
BP has formed a joint venture with Norway’s Deep Wind Offshore, taking a 55 per cent stake in four offshore wind projects in South Korea.
GE has announced that it has submitted plans to construct two new manufacturing facilities in New York if it wins a sufficient volume of orders from customers in the State’s ongoing solicitation for up to 4.6 GW of offshore wind.
According to figures confirmed by National Grid, Britain’s electricity system operator, wind power generated 21.6 GW in the early evening of 10 January.
Avangrid, the developer of the 1223 MW offshore wind farm Commonwealth Wind in Massachusetts, USA, has asked state regulators to dismiss the PPAs tied to the wind farm.
GE Renewable Energy and Hyundai Electric have announced that they have formed a strategic partnership to work together in the South Korean offshore wind market.
Nine countries joined the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA) at the UN COP27 climate summit to encourage the development of offshore wind power.
Equinor and Hitachi Energy are forming a partnership to pursue electrification, renewable power generation, and low-carbon initiatives globally.