Floating offshore wind made a remarkable splash this fall. As two much-watched projects sailed toward construction, optimism about the industry’s accelerated growth was buoyed by projections from the ...

Building a port on land takes time. On water, the job can be done quickly. Hagbart Skage Alsos and his research colleagues at ...

Offshore PV technologies were tested for the first time under the severe wave loads generated by Delta Flume, a 300 m long man-made flume with a wave generator that is capable of producing waves as ...

Helsinki-based MacGregor has been selected to supply a substantial 400-tonne Active Heave Compensated (AHC) subsea crane for a new 127-meter (416.7-foot) Floating Wind Farm Construction Vessel.

WindFloat Atlantic – the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm – has now been online for three years and continues to break its own power output records. The 25 megawatt (MW) ...

Locating PV systems offshore is a new frontier for the industry and one fraught with technical challenges. Image: Oceans of Energy. The idea of stationing PV systems at sea is rapidly gaining traction ...

According to a report from DNV GL, the North Sea may host around 100 MW of floating solar capacity by 2030, and 500 MW by 2035. The LCOE of offshore PV systems is currently estimated at around ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has awarded the US’s first floating offshore wind energy research lease to the State of Maine. The lease area covers under 15,000 acres and is 28 nautical ...

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Earlier this week, it was widely reported that the world’s first floating windfarm is currently being installed off the coast of Peterhead in Scotland. Statoil, which is developing the pilot Hywind ...

The Biden administration on Thursday announced several new initiatives to develop technology for massive, floating offshore wind turbines as part of the effort to launch offshore wind in California ...