Equinor Wind US, a division of the Norwegian energy company formerly known as Statoil, announced the name of its offshore wind project under development in New Jersey: Boardwalk Wind. Equinor won the federal auction for the offshore wind lease area 20 miles east of New Jersey and 15 miles south of Long Island, New York. The lease area…

Editor’s note: This article comes from Wind-Works and is authored by Sarah Taylor. Cleveland faces a unique opportunity to become the first city in the U.S. to install an offshore wind farm in fresh water. You can learn more by clicking through to Windustrious Cleveland’s website here. Those trying to prevent the Icebreaker Project from going ahead…

  Written by Greg Lupion Contributor Three months after deployment, the world’s first floating wind farm surpassed performance expectations, according to its operator, Statoil. The five-turbine, 30-MW Hywind Scotland Pilot Park — situated 15 miles off the Aberdeenshire Coast — operated at 65% of its maximum theoretical capacity last November, December, and January, the Norwegian…

By Eoghan Quinn, Global Wind Lead WorleyParsons Group In 2017, the offshore wind industry hit milestones and made headlines. That breakthrough year saw the sector become more commercially viable and realize its global potential. Wind Europe said that in 2016, the sector added 25% wind capacity. That was on average, the capacity of 500 more turbines…

According to a new market intelligence report by BIS Research, GlobalOffshore Wind Energy Market: Analysis & Forecast (2018-2023), the global offshore wind energy market is expected to reach $50.45 billion by 2023 — rising at a CAGR of 15.5% from 2018 to 2023. This growth is highly attributed to the increasing demand for using renewable…

Masdar and the Norwegian multinational energy company Equinor (formerly Statoil) have installed, and will soon begin testing, a new battery system designed to store electricity generated by Hywind Scotland, the world’s first commercial-scale floating wind farm. The battery storage solution is the first in the world to be connected to an offshore wind farm. The…

The Global Wind Summit, starting in September in Hamburg, will be the biggest and one of the most important meeting of the wind industry worldwide. The event combines the wind industry expo WindEnergy Hamburg with the global conference of WindEurope to create a high-powered, unique platform for business, networking and information for the onshore and offshore…

The Carbon Trust announced the launch of BLUE PILOT, a large-scale demonstration project aimed at reducing costs and underwater noise during construction of offshore wind farms as part of the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA). The BLUE PILOT project will deploy The BLUE Hammer, a new type of pile driver developed by Fistuca BV., a Dutch technology…

Governors from both New York and New Jersey announced commitments to launch the nation’s largest offshore wind solicitations. These commitments confirm the strong business case for offshore wind.

Offshore wind power in Europe saw a record 3,148 MW of net installed capacity last year alone. Britain also broke installation records by accounting for more than half of that in new offshore wind capacity. Perhaps it is time the United States sped up its offshore progress. After completing one small yet successful five-turbine offshore…

The International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum (IPF), a top technical conference for offshore wind energy in the United States, is coming to Princeton, N.J. April 3 to 6 — and so are impressive delegations from all over northern Europe, including Denmark, England, Norway, France, Germany and Belgium. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has also been…

The Hydrogen Council is a first-of-its-kind global CEO initiative to foster the role of hydrogen technologies in the global energy transition.

By Michelle Froese | Senior editor Windpower Engineering & Development Check out this and other articles in our 2018 Renewable Energy Guidebook, now available here. Now that the United States has tested the waters with its first offshore wind farm — the five-turbine Block Island Wind off the coast of Rhode Island — predictions vary about…

The American wind power industry expressed its thanks to leaders up and down the Atlantic Coast for advancing offshore wind projects that can create 40,000 jobs within a decade, revitalize ocean ports, and power millions of homes with clean energy. “Unlocking America’s vast offshore wind potential will reliably deliver large amounts of clean power, grow…

Energy predictions: The continuing plunge in costs for solar and wind energy, and for lithium-ion batteries, means that market opportunities will keep opening up for clean power,

Editor’s note: This article comes from the Clean Energy Group, a nonprofit advocacy organization. It is authored by Project Director, Valerie Stori. 2017 was a banner year for offshore wind in the U.S. Boosted by the start of commercial operations at the Block Island Wind Farm in December 2016, the offshore wind sector gathered momentum and…

Eight weeks after NYSERDA released its Area for Consideration for at least four new offshore wind energy areas in the New York Bight, the U.S. Department of Interior’s BOEM held a half-day webinar to present the bureau’s response.

For the first time, drones were used to inspect all 264 turbine blades across the 88 offshore locations at Sheringham Shoal wind farm. Sheringham Shoal, operated by Statoil, a key player in the UK’s offshore wind sector, partnered with Martek Aviation to carry out the inspections. Using 200 UAS, the drones took eight minutes each…