May 28—Federal officials on Tuesday offered Maine a lease to research offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine, moving the state closer to establishing a presence in the budding zero-carbon energy industry. The site is 28 nautical miles off the coast, southeast of Portland. If developed, it will include up to 12 floating offshore […]
TRENTON — Gov. Phil Murphy announced New Jersey would accelerate development of its future offshore wind industry, saying that the state was speeding up its release of the fifth round of bidding for offshore wind power projects. Offshore wind developers can submit project proposals in the fifth round bidding, which is expected to open in […]
May 25—Charybdis, the 472-foot offshore wind turbine installation vessel contracted for work in New England waters, is not coming to New London after all. Dominion Energy, the company that constructed this first U.S.-built vessel of its kind, confirmed this week it had canceled a contract with Ørsted and Eversource, the partners that had planned to […]
Delaware’s path to obtaining offshore wind along its coasts has moved a step forward. Senate Bill 265, which lays out the process by which governmental agencies will go through when contracting offshore wind projects in the state, officially passed in the Delaware Senate on Thursday, with a few changes to the bill’s original text. The […]
Dominion Energy announced Wednesday that construction officially started at its planned 2.6-gigawatt Virginia Beach offshore wind farm. The electric company said the Orion heavy lift vessel installed the first wind turbine foundation, a steel tube called a monopile, about 29 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. The Orion departed Portsmouth Marine Terminal with the […]
In a major step forward for clean energy, construction giant Skanska has been awarded an $861 million contract to transform the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into one of the nation’s largest offshore wind ports, according to Electrek. This critical infrastructure project, set to run through 2026, will support the 2.1 gigawatt Empire Wind project currently […]
Donald Trump has vowed to immediately halt offshore wind energy projects “on day one” of a new term as US president, in his most explicit threat yet to the industry and the latest in a series of promises to undo key aspects of the transition to cleaner energy. Trump repeated false accusations about wind projects […]
(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order targeting offshore wind development if he wins a second term as president, making his most explicit threat yet toward the growing industry. Most Read from Bloomberg The presumptive Republican nominee derided offshore wind projects as lethal for birds and whales during his oceanfront rally Saturday […]
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s majority state-owned energy company Ecopetrol is analyzing its potential direct participation in the Andean country’s first-ever offshore wind auction, the company said in a statement to Reuters. The government of President Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first leftist leader, has said it wants to wean the Andean country from its […]
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Delaware’s process of obtaining offshore wind power is one step closer to being ratified. Senate Bill 265, which lays out the various checks and balances that an offshore wind project would have to go through to get approved, was presented to the Senate’s Environment, Energy & Transportation Committee on Wednesday, April 24. The 19-page bill […]
FILE – Turbines operate at the Block Island Wind Farm, Dec. 7, 2023, off the coast of Block Island, R.I. The Biden administration is preparing to announce plans for a new five-year schedule to lease federal offshore tracts for wind energy production, with up to a dozen lease sales anticipated beginning this year and continuing […]