Partners broke ground on Vineyard Wind 1, America’s first commercial scale offshore wind farm which is a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure. The 800MW project is located 24 kilometres off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. It is expected to generate electricity for more than 4,00,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts, create 3,600 jobs, save customers €1.24 billion over the first 20 years of operation, and is expected to reduce carbon emissions by more than 1.6 million metric tonnes per year.
- November 21, 2021
Eight more companies have joined the AquaVentus project which aims at developing a 10GW wind-to-hydrogen project in Germany. These firms include the oil and gas production company Neptune Energy, Saipem, Ramboll and Heerema Marine Contractors. The membership network of AquaVentus has now grown to 79 companies including several big names from the offshore energy industry which have joined since the beginning of this year.
- November 18, 2021
Italian oil-and-gas major Eni has entered into agreements with Norway’s Equinor and UK’s SSE Renewables to acquire a 20% stake in the 1.2-GW Dogger Bank C offshore wind project off the coast of the UK.
- November 6, 2021
Giant turbines ‘floating’ on the seas world over are on a mission to generate more clean energy. Offshore wind continues to gain momentum in Europe, with 20% more new installations and an additional 2.9 GW added to various grids by the end of 2020. We can find some of the world’s biggest offshore wind farms in British, Dutch and German waters. Here, we have rounded them in terms of capacity and its clean energy contribution as we know it.
- October 21, 2021
SSE Renewables has signed an agreement with Pacifico Energy, one of Japan’s largest developers of renewable energy, to create a joint ownership company that will pursue offshore wind energy development projects in Japan.
- September 30, 2021
The Government of Mauritania, Africa has announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chariot, an oil and gas company based in the country to develop a 10GW green hydrogen development called Project Nour.
- September 30, 2021
