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Interesting news about South Korea's "Offshore Wind Power Competitive Bidding Roadmap". I am excited to see how this will accelerate investment (domestic and interational), boost competition, drive critical infrastructure developments and create new opportunities for partnerships with public-sector entities. It will undoubtedly shape the future of renewable energy in the region. #RenewableEnergy #OffshoreWind #Sustainability #SouthKoreaOffshoreWind

♻️🌏💡France Aims to Halve Offshore Wind Farm Development Time 💡🌏♻️ The French government has announced measures to increase efficiency and speed up the development process of offshore wind farms in the country. The aim is to halve the current time taken for development from 12 years to just 6 years. This move is a significant boost to the renewable energy sector and will help France achieve its goals for offshore wind production. It will also support the country's decarbonisation of the economy and reduce carbon emissions. This decision is a significant step towards achieving the country's renewable energy targets and promoting sustainable development. It highlights the importance of renewable energy in the fight against climate change and the need to prioritise it in national policies. The French government's commitment to supporting the sector is a positive move that will encourage other countries to invest in renewable energy. We are excited to see the progress of the French renewable energy sector! 🇫🇷 Learn more below! 👇 #RenewableEnergy #OffshoreWind #WindEnergy #Renewables #Ilosta

Pretty awesome to see #Australia's #offshorewind efforts be birthed. We'll be looking back at this moment when Australia's clean energy engine got turbo charged. "If all the proponents demonstrate the viability of their projects and gain development approval, the Gippsland wind fleet could generate up to 25 gigawatts of electricity – 40 per cent of the grid’s current capacity – and create a combined 15,000 construction jobs and 7500 ongoing roles. Offshore wind generates what is known as baseload-like power, which means the wind turbines can provide #electricity more consistently and reliably than land-based wind and solar farms. The electricity market operator has forecast that 80 per cent of Australia’s #coal plants will be shut by 2032, with the last plant to close by 2038." Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA) Ørsted Star of the South Iberdrola Corio Generation OW Ocean Winds Link: https://lnkd.in/eKTK5KpS

It was both an honour and a privilege for the UL Executive MBA 2nd Year class to engage in energetic dialogue and discussion yesterday with Chairman Barry O'Sullivan, and Task Force members @LuukVanderWielen, Siobhan Dolan Clancy & Eamonn Murphy Prof. (Emeritus) regarding the implementation of the Shannon Estuary Economic Task Force report & recommendations as part of their strategy implementation module. A truly inspirational vision which now requires urgent action! #ULMBA#ShannonEstuaryTaskForce#DesirableFutures#SustainableEnterprise

Thanks to the The Irish Times for this very fair article and it was a pleasure to discuss the unparalleled opportunities for Ireland with Kevin O'Sullivan last week. The Shannon Estuary Taskforce, at the request of the government, gave over 5,000 hours of their personal time to work on this and other opportunities. The then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Ministers Eamon Ryan, Simon Coveney, Norma Foley, all with truly inspirational words, launched our report last July including a Plan, agreed by all Stakeholders, to harvest power from Atlantic wind by 2032. One part of that plan requires investment in the 2 deep water ports of the Shannon Estuary, just like the investments that are now underway in many countries in Europe. Minister Ryan was very clear at recent IEA conference in Paris that governments need to ‘get out of the way’ and let industry get on with the work. https://lnkd.in/esXxAas8 We note government support for our State energy company ESB in its efforts to develop 2 floating wind farms for the benefit of the Scottish economy in the last several years. Just like the other developers, ESB have made no progress here on building floating wind farms, despite the need. Our new Taoiseach, Simon Harris has promised ‘a new energy’ for his tenure as leader of our government and has appointed a new generation of Ministers. Let us hope now that this government will show the vision and leadership of the first government of this State who built Ardnacrusha, the world’s largest hydroelectric plant in its day, a century ago. Today, the risk is beyond miniscule for a government spending €110 billion this year, but the rewards over the next century will be orders greater. Power from floating wind @ 10m/s will be equivalent in cost to fixed by 2035. We have 14 m/s wind speeds in the Atlantic, and as power is proportional to the cube of wind speed, 14 is 2.7 times better than 10! In this increasingly digital world, the countries that can offer large amounts of green energy to society will win, and we are already 5 years behind our neighbours. We eagerly await the new energy of this administration. The Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce plans are ready.

Case studies from Denmark (Port of Esbjerg) and France (Port La Nouvelle, near Narbonne) in the excellent recent article by Kevin O'Sullivan in the The Irish Times shows the impact of vision and ambition for offshore wind elsewhere in Europe. Barry O'Sullivan chairman of the Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce is quoted as saying "the Shannon estuary should be seen as the green front door for Europe, such is the depth, shelter, wet storage capacity and offshore wind speeds nearby". In order to achieve this, we can learn from our neighbours. "To justify the necessary investments, it is important to adopt a more regional or global perspective. This is the main lesson learned from the experience of Port Esbjerg, which can help the industry reach its full potential.” “Port-La Nouvelle, near Narbonne, in southern France is the only port with dedicated facilities to build and assemble offshore floating wind turbines close to the best windy location in the western Mediterranean. The port is publicly owned by Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, the second-largest region in France, and privately managed. It is spending more than €680 million enlarging facilities, with funding secured through the regional government to ensure it does not transgress EU state aid rules. Port-La Nouvelle attracted private investment following the success of the initial partly state-funded projects”. https://lnkd.in/gceTuuMb

A Westwood Global Energy Group survey has revealed that accelerated investment, regulation and supply chain coordination is needed if the offshore wind sector is to meet its ambitious targets. The research, developed in partnership with Norwegian Offshore Wind and WORLD FORUM OFFSHORE WIND (WFO), surveyed 184 floating offshore wind stakeholders on industry sentiment and attitudes across the value chain. The survey revealed a lack of standardisation of floating technology (55 per cent), manufacturing capability and capacity (51 per cent) and port infrastructure (50 per cent) as the most cited major hurdles and risks to progress for floating offshore. Read the full report here 👇 https://lnkd.in/ddZaDCxB #theengineer #floatingoffshorewind #renewables

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

Poland Launches Offshore Wind Era with Baltic Power Project, Driving Energy Security and EU Decarbonization Goals Reading Time: 3 minutesPoland is ramping up its domestic offshore wind supply chain to become the leading offshore wind player in the Baltic Sea. Work on the construction of two substations for Poland’s first offshore wind farm is now complete. This marks the kick-off of commercial-scale offshore wind development in Polish waters. Meanwhile, the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU has made energy security and industrial competitiveness two of its main priorities. On 23 January 2025, Grupa Przemysłowa Baltic (GPB), a Polish company specializing in manufacturing complex steel structures, hosted a high-level event to celebrate the completion of […] - https://lnkd.in/dKMCwu5v #windenergy #windturbines #offshorewind #windturbine #cleanenergy #climatechange #sustainability #energynews #smartenergy #windfarm #windindustry #renewableenergy #renewables #decarbonisation #energysecurity #eu #europe #offshorewind #renewableenergy #windenergy #windfarm #windeurope

My News of the Month! ⭐️ I hope it all goes ahead as planned because floating is the future and we really need to see more commercial projects to help strategise further deployment. Currently, high potential comes with high risk and high uncertainty. Offshore floating wind technology is yet to settle as the standards and conceptualisation of building the most optimised and cost-efficient business case, are yet to be shown. With supply-chain capability and cost remaining considerably undetermined and the expense of construction in deeper waters- We aren’t seeing the LCoE reduce to what more developers would consider secure investment potential. However, with more commercial scale projects and the use of simulation offering a sustainable data-driven approach to project deployment, I am confident that we will see more and more successful floating projects. Especially like this one and HT which are being constructed to offset/support O&G installations.