This Week's Biggest News
In case you missed some of the major updates from the offshore wind industry this week, below is a quick, Friday-friendly overview. For more news, visit offshoreWIND.biz or subscribe to our email newsletter and get the latest news straight to your inbox first thing in the morning.
Mingyang Smart Energy’s OceanX, the world's largest single-capacity floating wind platform according to Mingyang, sailed out of Guangzhou, China, towards the Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm in Yangjiang, Guangdong for installation.
The floater is a dual-turbine V-shaped platform and has a generation capacity of 16.6 MW, featuring two MySE8.3-180 hybrid drive wind turbines, each with a capacity of 8.3 MW.
RWE and Luxcara have been selected as winners of the latest German tender, offering a total of 5.5 GW of capacity across three sites, N-9.1, N-9.2, and N-9.3, all located in the German North Sea.
RWE has secured the sites N-9.1 and N-9.2, where the company plans to build two offshore wind farms with an installed capacity of 2 GW each, possibly with TotalEnergies.
The 1.5 GW site N-9.3 was awarded to Waterekke Energy, a company owned by the German developer Luxcara which is developing the Waterkant offshore wind project in the German North Sea.
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The Crown Estate has invited proposals from the pre-qualified bidders in the Round 5 seabed leasing process which will award up to 4.5 GW of floating wind capacity in the Celtic Sea.
On 13 August, The Crown Estate said the second phase of the leasing process got underway following the conclusion of the initial pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) in June 2024.
The initial phase was launched in February, marking the official opening of the floating wind tender. Following this first phase, The Crown Estate was “able to move forward with a strong pool of Prequalified Bidders, all of whom have demonstrated their suitability to proceed”, the UK seabed manager said.
Equinor and Virginia Electric and Power Co, a subsidiary of Dominion Energy, have provisionally won lease areas in the Central Atlantic offshore wind auction in the US, each securing one site. The auction, which yielded almost USD 93 million (around EUR 84 million), saw a total of six companies participating.
Equinor is provisionally awarded the OCS-A 0557 lease area which the developer secured with a bid of USD 75 million (around EUR 68 million). The lease area is located approximately 26 nautical miles (approximately 48 kilometres) from Delaware Bay and covers 101,443 acres (around 410 square kilometres).
Virginia Electric and Power Co provisionally won the OCS-A 0558 lease area with a bid of around USD 17.7 million (around EUR 16 million). This area spans 176,505 acres (approx. 714 square kilometres) and is located some 35 nautical miles (almost 65 kilometres) from the entrance of Chesapeake Bay.
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