News Sweden rejects 30GW of offshore wind projects near Kaliningrad Sweden has vetoed the construction of 13 offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, saying they could impede military operations. The rejected farms together would have had around 30GW of…
News $225m raised to finance Mozambique’s first wind farm The African Development Bank (AfDB) is to loan $54m towards meeting the $225m cost of Mozambique’s first wind farm. Funding is also being supplied by the Sustainable Energy Fund for…
News Green light for Denmark’s biggest offshore wind farm The Danish Energy Agency has approved construction for German utility RWE’s 1.1GW Thor offshore wind farm, clearing the way for work to start in the spring. The plan is to…
News Norway to offer $3.3bn in subsidies for first floating wind farm Norway has again proposed offering subsidies worth some $3.3bn to encourage bids in the country’s first tender for a floating wind farm, Reuters reports. The figure appeared yesterday in the…
News Cost hikes put Denmark’s $30bn energy island back at least three years A combination of inflating commodity costs and high interest rates has forced Denmark to postpone the start of work on the first of its planned “energy islands” for at least…
News Dubai’s AMEA to develop $620m Ethiopian wind farm Ethiopia has agreed a deal with a Dubai renewables developer AMEA to develop the Horn of Africa’s biggest wind farm. The letter-of-award was signed by Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia’s finance minister,…
News $93m offshore wind auction is ‘much-needed’ boost to Biden’s energy goals The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) yesterday raised nearly $93m in an auction for two lease areas for wind power sites off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and…
News Morocco starts process of building Africa’s first wind farm Morocco is looking for a consultant to do a feasibility study on an offshore wind project that could be Africa’s first. The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) and the…
News Shanghai sets 29GW offshore wind target The Chinese government has approved a plan put forward by the People’s Municipal Government of Shanghai to build more than 29GW of offshore wind capacity. The plan, reported in the…
News Work starts on New York City’s first offshore wind terminal Norway-headquartered energy developer Equinor last month broke ground on a project to turn New York City’s South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into a construction hub for Equinor’s first US offshore wind…
News Vinci, Siemens picked for €2.9bn North Sea converter stations A consortium of Vinci and Siemens has won a €2.9bn contract from German utility 50Hertz to design, build and install two converter stations to bring wind power from the North…
News New York offshore wind could give hydrogen below $2/kg, say researchers Wind farms off the coast of New York could power green hydrogen production at below $2 a kilogram by 2030, say researchers at the US state-funded National Renewable Energy Laboratory…
News EU-funded wind farm to power third of Danish households The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed a €1.2bn loan for a major offshore wind farm in Denmark. The 1.1GW Thor scheme being built by German utility RWE will consist…
News Team picked to build substations on Belgium’s €2bn energy island Belgian grid operator Elia has awarded the contract to design and build four substations on the world’s first “energy island” in the North Sea. The planned Princess Elisabeth Island, which…
News World’s first clinker-free wind turbine foundation Hoffmann Green Cement and green energy developer The Valorem Group have poured the world’s first wind turbine foundation made from 0% clinker decarbonised concrete. It’s for the Plaine des Moulins…
News Developer plans 3GW offshore wind farm in northern Sweden The Swedish arm of German offshore wind company Skyborn Renewables has submitted an application to the Swedish government to build a giant wind farm off Sweden’s northeastern coast. The 3GW…
News Skanska win $861m deal to turn South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into ‘wind port’ Norwegian energy company Equinor has chosen Skanska for a $861m project to turn the 73-acre South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in New York into an “offshore wind port”. The scope includes…
News Cowi lands role on major Irish wind farm Danish consulting engineer Cowi has won a contract to provide the front-end engineering design (FEED) and detailed foundation design for the proposed Codling Wind Park off the Wicklow coast in…