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Iberdrola enters Polish offshore with 50% stake in 7.3GW pipeline

Iberdrola plans to use its foothold in Poland to expand its offshore wind capacity in other Baltic S...

GE boosts Haliade-X to 14MW for third Dogger Bank site

GE's newly uprated 14MW Haliade-X is now the joint most powerful offshore wind turbine in the world...

RWE signs PPA with E.on for UK offshore site

RWE Renewables has signed a 13-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with E.on UK for the entire elect...

Japan targets up to 45GW offshore wind by 2040

The Asian country is reported to plan a 30-45GW target by 2040 for offshore wind, which would make i...

Vattenfall's controversial Danish nearshore sites given green light

Vattenfall will be able to begin construction following permitting approval from the Danish Energy A...

Japan to decommission floating offshore wind test turbines

The Japanese government has decided to remove floating offshore wind pilot turbines off Fukushima du...

Vestas closes deal to buy out MHI from offshore wind venture

Vestas' chairman describes deal as the start of a "new chapter" for the company, as it brought its o...

Ørsted, Shell and EDF bid in New Jersey's offshore wind tender

Developers are competing in New Jersey's latest offshore wind round, which could see the state's pip...

Offshore wind-powered interconnector ‘black starts’ grid

Energinet and 50Hertz claim this was the first time a power plant was restarted using a land and sea...

UK needs up to 125GW offshore wind by 2050 to achieve net zero

The UK government’s climate adviser has issued a ‘first ever routemap’ for the country to fully deca...

France to auction '1GW offshore wind site'

The new project will be tendered under France’s multi-year energy plan, known as PPE...

Ørsted to sell 25% of 1.1GW Ocean Wind site

New Jersey local utility will take a 25% stake in the offshore wind farm, which could produce first ...

Oil giant Eni to buy stake in 2.4GW Dogger Bank offshore project

With completion of the deal, Equinor and SSE will each own a 40% stake in Dogger Bank A & B, while E...

French courts give Saint-Brieuc the green light

France could finally start offshore construction next year after the country's highest court rejects...

WindEnergy Hamburg 2020: European cooperation ‘critical’ to UK offshore wind targets

The UK's trade commissioner for Europe said the country wants and needs to work with its European pa...

GE replaces MHI Vestas as Vineyard Wind’s preferred supplier

Vineyard Wind has chosen GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X as the preferred turbine model for its proj...

RWE to test offshore wind 'collared' foundation

RWE believes its ‘collared monopile’ will increase the foundations' load-bearing capacity and increa...

Borssele 1 & 2 offshore 752MW wind farm now fully online

Ørsted's first Dutch offshore wind farm has been fully commissioned, making it the largest in the Ne...

Warning over heavy lift vessel 'bottleneck' for offshore wind

Analysis from Rystad Energy indicates demand from offshore wind's development pipeline is outpacing ...

SSE and Equinor secure 'world's largest offshore wind project financing'

Banks and export credit agencies from around the world have now backed the first two 1.2GW phases of...