Wind Energy – Floating Wind China
China has begun construction of a 1 GW floating offshore wind project located 22 km off the coast of Wanning in the Hainan province (southern China).
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MoU to co-develop modular offshore wind assembly system
Wind Energy – Floating Wind
Gazelle Wind Power and Tugdock have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-develop a modular offshore wind assembly system, that is expected to dramatically drive down costs and increase production of floating offshore wind farms.
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Wind Energy – FWIV
NOV has launched the Enhydra Floating Wind Installation Vessel (FWIV) concept to facilitate the commercialization of floating wind.
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Wind Energy – Demonstration Project
An international consortium of six parties has started a research & demonstration project into positive wake effects of wind turbines with tilted rotors.
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Wind Energy – South Korea
BadaEnergy announced on Tuesday that it has selected Hyundai Heavy Industries HHI as the preferred bidder for the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) of its Gray Whale 3 floating offshore wind farm.
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Wind Energy – Stormy Weather
Principle Power posted a video proving that WindFloat can comfortably withstand waves higher than 20m, surpassing the previous record from WindFloat 1 (17 m).
[Read more…] about Nothing happened to WindFloat during Ciaran (VIDEO)Agreement for two floating offshore wind farms
Wind Energy – Floating Wind
Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, a joint venture between Plenitude (Eni) and HitecVision, have signed exclusivity agreements for two floating offshore wind developments with up to a total of 1.9 gigawatt (GW) capacity under Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round.
[Read more…] about Agreement for two floating offshore wind farmsNovel design for Floating Offshore Wind approved by ABS
Wind Energy – Floating Wind
ABS issued an approval in principle (AIP) to ECO TLP for its floating offshore wind turbine support structure.
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Wind Energy – Floating Wind
SBM Offshore announced the successful installation of the 3 floating wind units for the Provence Grand Large pilot project to their final location 17 kilometers off the Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, near Marseille, France.
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Wind Energy – Pre-termination
Prysmian Group has successfully completed the dynamic cables’ pre-termination phase for the Provence Grand Large floating offshore wind farm (FOW) which is planned to be installed off the coast of France.
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