Norway this week opened competitions to develop offshore wind farms in two areas of its continental shelf, the first step in its plan to generate 30GW a year this way…

Spanish contractor Ferrovial and German energy company RWE have agreed to work together to develop, construct and operate floating windfarm off the coast of Spain. Ferrovial has submitted expressions of…

German chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government plans to accelerate the construction of wind turbines in Germany, broadcaster Deutsche Welle reports. Speaking to the weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag,…

Swedish contractor Skanska has won a construction management deal to build an offshore wind hub, which will be connected to two wind farms. Two offshore wind farms, Empire Wind and…

China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG) has begun work on the first offshore wind scheme to employ 16MW turbines. The company is installing the units on the second phase of its…

Norwegian wind power company SeaTwirl can go ahead with testing its 1MW vertical-axis floating wind turbine off the coast at Boknafjorden after regulators rejected appeals against the trial. The Nasdaq-listed…

Chinese company Mingyang Smart Energy has announced plans to build the world’s largest offshore wind turbine, a unit with a rotor diameter of 280m that would be able to supply…

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, and Hungary agreed Saturday to supply Europe with electricity generated by wind farms that Azerbaijan plans to build in the Caspian Sea. Supported by the EU, the…

Eiffage Métal, a unit of French construction group Eiffage, has won a contract to fabricate 62 heavy components for a 496MW wind farm planned off the western Atlantic coast of…

Thai energy company Bangchak Corporation (BCPG) will join forces with PowerChina International to build a $1.5bn wind farm in Laos. The two companies yesterday signed an agreement to cooperate on…

Spanish renewables company Capital Energy has submitted plans to Spanish authorities to build a €2bn floating wind farm off the northwest coast of Spain, Nova News reports. The so-called Breogán…

Finnish wood supplier Stora Enso has teamed up with German start-up Voodin Blades to develop wooden blades for wind turbines. They say it’ll be a sustainable alternative to conventional blades,…

Swedish renewable energy developer OX2 has applied to build a 5.5GW wind farm, the world’s largest single such development, between the islands of Gotland and Öland in the Baltic Sea.

Danish utility Ørsted has teamed up with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to test the effect of 3D-printed reefs on marine ecosystems in the Kattegat strait between Denmark and Sweden.

Rotterdam-headquartered marine contractor Van Oord and Japanese construction giant Kajima have been selected as the preferred “balance of plant” contractors for three offshore wind projects in Japan.