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The largest offshore wind tender round in Dutch history has concluded with the award of the 2GW Ijmuiden Ver Alpha plot to an SSE Renewables consortium and the 2GW Ijmuiden Ver Beta site to Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. #offshorewind #Netherlands #renewableenergy

Norway's Energy Minister Terje Aasland, alongside Ventyr Nordsjø 2 leadership, have officially signed a contract to advance the Sørlige Nordsjø 2 initiative, marking it as the inaugural significant offshore wind endeavor on the Norwegian continental shelf.   Last month, Parkwind and the Ingka Group's joint venture secured Norway's premier auction for the development of offshore wind in Sørlige Nordsjø 2.   Click the link below for the full story and follow us for daily mandates & news. #offshorewind #windenergy #renewables

The Tasmanian government has fast tracked the 224 megawatt (MW) Bell Bay wind farm by giving it major project status, accelerating the state process just as the project enters the federal approval system. The $950 million proposal by Equis is in the Northeast Tasmanian Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) and will include up to 224MW of wind power and a four hour, 100 MW battery. The current plan is to install what would be the largest wind turbines yet in Australia: 28 machines with a capacity of 8 MW each and a tip height of 270m. #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #GreenEnergy #SolarPower #WindEnergy #ClimateAction #EnergyEfficiency #Renewables #GreenTech #Australia

Offshore wind industry seeks to unlock UK supply chain innovation with standardisation of technology demonstration   Coinciding with the RenewableUK’s ‘Wind Energy Week’, today the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) is highlighting its newly published standardised technology demonstration agreement (STDA). 🔽 Find more info in comments below 🔽 #OffshoreWind #SupplyChain #Innovation #OffshoreWind #UK #Standardisation #TechDemonstration #OilandGas ⤵️ Click Follow on our page to keep up to date with energy news ⤵️

Big offshore ambitions require big thinking. Kevin O'Sullivan's article profiles Denmark's Esbjerg port and how even it struggles to keep up with the scaling of the offshore wind energy industry. In Ireland we have espoused ambitious plans for offshore wind, but without the policy clarity on how our grids and port infrastructure can match that ambition. Yesterday's inaugural speech by our new Taoiseach Simon Harris was understandably short-term in scope, but we will quickly need Government and new Enterprise Minister Peter Burke to set out how we achieve not just 2030 targets, but what our energy industry will look like in 2050 and 2060. Port infrastructure will be critical, as already outlined by industry leaders like Barry O'Sullivan. 20 MW wind turbines are coming, and we will need to get organised to handle them. Wind Energy Ireland #renewableenergy #offshorewind https://lnkd.in/e_GAd--D

Exciting news for the #US renewable energy industry! For the first time ever, turbines are sending electricity to the grid from two large offshore wind farms in the United States. This is a significant milestone for the offshore wind industry in America and a major step forward in meeting the country's climate goals. The #VineyardWind project, a joint venture between Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, announced that one turbine has delivered about 5MW of power to the #Massachusetts grid from what will be a 62-turbine wind farm. It's great to see more progress being made towards tripling the use of renewable energy, as agreed upon by nearly 200 countries at #COP28. We are excited to see what the future holds for renewable energy in the US. ♻️ #RenewableEnergy #OffshoreWind #CleanEnergy #Sustainability

If we are to transition to renewable energy sources then we need to build the infrastructure to produce the renewable energy sources. #renewableenergy #energytransition #greenenergy #climatetech #windenergy #windpower

Even though the turbines creating clean, renewable energy aren't ours, this is still an exciting milestone ... not only is this just the start for #VineyardWind, it is the start of offshore wind generation in the US and is a critical piece of our #energytransition.

Plans have been unveiled for what would be – by some distance – the biggest wind project on Australia’s main grid, a five gigawatt (GW) proposal for north Queensland. The Bogunda wind farm has been unveiled by Australian developer Renewable Energy Partners (REP) and would be located in a region south-east of Hughenden, and would connect to the proposed new Copperstring transmission line that will link the coastal areas with the mineral-rich regions out towards Mount Isa. The project is very much in its early stages, but REP hopes to get a first 2 GW stage up and running by the end of the decade, at a cost of around $5 billion – although the timing will be dependent on progress with the Copperstring power line. #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #GreenEnergy #SolarPower #WindEnergy #ClimateAction #EnergyEfficiency #Renewables #GreenTech

BloombergNEF lowered its #2030 estimate for US #offshorewind capacity to just 13GW amid last year's "chaos", but still sees sector in line for world's second largest (with #UK) by 2040 as benefits of large scale #cleanenergy outweigh costs Ørsted Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Iberdrola Avangrid National Renewable Energy Laboratory Bureau of Ocean Energy Management #energytransition #industrialtransformation https://lnkd.in/eF_CAbXN