Several South Korean companies are getting involved in generating offshore wind power.
Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) has signed a cooperation agreement with Hyundai Heavy Industries to build a floating wind power plant at Donghae Gas Field 1 in the East Sea off South Korea.
Siemens Energy is supplying the HVDC power transmission technology for the offshore connection to a wind farm in the German North Sea.
Kwasi Kwarteng, UK Energy Minister, has announced that the UK Government will conduct a review of current energy infrastructure at sea, increasing the country’s offshore wind power from 10 GW to 40 GW by 2030.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has won its fifth nearshore wind farm project in Vietnam, the 78 MW Hiep Thanh wind farm.
South Korea has announced that it intends to increase its offshore wind power capacity to 12 GW by 2030.
The cable route for the 1.1GW Seagreen offshore wind farm off Scotland, a joint venture between SSE Renewables and Total, has been approved.
Siemens has been awarded an order from Semco Maritime of Denmark to provide the main electrical equipment for the electrical service platform (ESP) of the 1.6GW offshore wind project Mayflower Wind.
The renewable power unit of Tepco, Japan’s biggest utility, plans to spend over $18 billion over the next ten years to boost its renewable power generation by as much as 70 per cent.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has announced that it will conditionally supply SG 14-222 Direct Drive offshore wind turbines to the 2.64GW Dominion Energy Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project.