Hexicon AB, a Swedish floating wind specialist, has been granted permission to connect six floating wind facilities in Italy with a total capacity of 7.1 GW to the national grid. Reportedly, the permits were granted by Italian transmission system operator (TSO) Terna SpA. The Swedish developer is active in Italy through AvenHexicon, a 50-50 joint venture with local renewables developer Avapa Energy Srl.
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Aker Solutions has joined forces with Mainstream Renewable Power, Ocean Winds, and Statkraft for the upcoming Utsira Nord floating wind project in Norway. The companies will collaborate to develop economical, sustainable technology for the project, as per the terms of the agreement.
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Eolus, a Nordic wind power company, and Simply Blue Group, an Irish firm, have agreed to partner on the development of four commercial-scale offshore wind parks in the Baltic Sea. The remaining facilities will be situated offshore of Finland, while two of the projects will be developed in Sweden.
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IberBlue Wind, a Spanish-Irish renewable energy company, has announced plans to build a 990 MW floating wind farm off the coast of Andalusia, Spain. The 310 km sq Nao Victoria wind farm will be built in the Alboran Sea, off the coasts of Cadiz and Malaga. The Nao Victoria wind farm, which will comprise 55 floating offshore wind turbines, will have an installed capacity of 990 MW and be able to power hundreds of thousands of households.
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Mainstream Renewable Power and Ocean Winds have signed a seabed lease agreement with Crown Estate Scotland to construct a floating offshore wind farm. Crown Estate Scotland chose the two companies as the preferred bidders for developing the 1.8 GW project offshore from the Shetland Islands earlier this year.
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The Yeonggwang Project, a 1.2 GW floating wind project off the south-west coast of South Korea, has been the subject of a sale and purchase agreement signed by offshore wind developer Hexicon Korea. According to the agreement, Hexicon Korea will sell its 40 per cent stake in the project to an undisclosed buyer, who will then become the project’s 100 per cent owner and take over its financial management moving forward.
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Equinor and Technip Energies, a French energy company, have decided to collaborate on the development of floating wind steel semi-substructures. The partnership intends to speed up the development of technology for floating offshore wind projects while also reducing costs and expanding local value prospects.
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ACCIONA Energía, a Spanish renewable energy company, has purchased a 24 percent investment in Eolink, a French start-up that creates floating foundations for offshore wind farms. Acciona Energía invested in Eolink by taking part in the French company’s financing round. No financial terms or other details of the investment have been disclosed by the company.
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Lamprell, an Emirati construction company, has signed a MoU with NOV, a US-based firm, to supply three offshore floating wind farms to Cerulean Winds, a British renewable energy developer. According to the provisions of the MoU, Lamprell will provide fabrication, assembly, and outfitting services for the construction of NOV’s tri-floaters, which will act as the floating foundations for the three wind farms. Each wind farm has a capacity of 1 GW.
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Scottish offshore energy company Equinor has revealed its preferred floating wind foundation design for full-scale gigawatt (GW) commercial floating offshore wind, if successful in the ScotWind leasing round. The Wind Semi, a semi-submersible wind turbine foundation, was created with flexibility in mind, allowing fabrication and assembly to be performed using local resources.
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Octopus Renewables has strengthened its position in the Irish energy market by purchasing a 24% stake in Simply Blue Group for €15 million. The move comes two weeks after Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) paid up to €145 million for a portfolio from Statkraft.
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The prototype of the TetraSpar floating wind turbine, created by Stiesdal Offshore Technologies (SOT) and supported by Shell, RWE, and TEPCO, is on its way to its test location off the coast of Norway. The platform will then be linked up to the pre-installed mooring system by Bourbon Subsea Services once it arrives at its allocated place at the Metcentre site.
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Ocean Winds and Aker Offshore Wind have formed a collaboration to build floating wind projects off the coast of Scotland. The firms, who are already partners in California, the United States, and South Korea, will now work together in the Scotland leasing phase. The two firms will make a joint proposal to Crown Estate Scotland by July 16th, 2021.
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South Korea has announced that it plans to build a 6 GW offshore wind park on floating foundations. The project will be located off the coast of Ulsan City at a proposed investment of KRW 36 trillion ($32.1 billion). The overall investment will come from both the public and private sectors and is expected to create about 210,000 jobs. The project is set to be completed by 2030.
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The government of South Korea has announced that it will provide full support to the floating wind farm being planned off the coast of Ulsan. The project is expected have an installed capacity of 6 GW and be completed by 2030. This capacity is expected to power as many as 5.7 million households.
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Marine-i has agreed to support a year-long research programme to identify the potential for wave, tidal and floating wind technologies to be deployed around the Isles of Scilly. It is expected that this will lead to long-term economic, societal and environmental benefits for the communities living on the islands.
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