(Bloomberg) – BP, the oil giant that announced a seismic strategy shift last month, made its first venture into offshore wind power with a $1.1 billion purchase of U.S. assets from Norway’s Equinor ASA. The deal marks the start of an offshore-wind investment partnership in the region for the two companies, which have been at […]
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has won a contract to supply its SG 14-222 direct drive offshore wind turbine for the 2,640MW Coast Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) commercial project. Developed by Dominion Energy, the offshore wind farm will be built in the US state of Virginia and will provide enough energy to power 650,000 homes, […]
Equinor and SSE have unveiled plans to build a multi-million pound operations and maintenance base for a project that is being described as “the world’s largest offshore wind farm.” The site for the base is located at the Port of Tyne, in the northeast England. It will serve the Dogger Bank wind farm, which will […]
A floating wind farm off the coast of northern Portugal began transmitting electricity to the grid, a crucial step for a technology that could vastly increase the potential for offshore wind power.