UK’s Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Project To Be Delayed Until 2025 Updated On Mon, Feb 12th, 2024 by Saurenergy United Kingdom-based renewable energy company SSE Renewables has announced that a shortage of vessels, challenging weather conditions, and supply chain issues will lead to delays in the operation of the first phase of the Dogger Bank offshore wind project – Dogger Bank A. According to the company, the project will not begin functioning until 2025. […] Read more
TagEnergy, Vestas Join Forces To Develop 220-MW Spanish Wind Portfolio Updated On Wed, Jan 31st, 2024 by Saurenergy Global clean energy enterprise TagEnergy and wind energy major Vestas have come together to develop 220-MW wind portfolio in Spain. The joint venture will see Vestas acting as lead developer and TagEnergy will draw on its experience developing wind farms to determine and shape the most cost-efficient model. The new wind energy project will come […] Read more
Global Maritime To Lead Maintenance At Offshore Wind Farm In Scotland Updated On Thu, Jan 25th, 2024 by Saurenergy Global Maritime, an offshore operations company, will manage the maintenance-related heavy operations at the Hywind floating offshore wind farm. The company has been awarded a contract pertaining to project management, engineering works, and other site-related operations. Masdar, a renewable energy company, and Equinor, an international energy company were involved in developing the Hywind offshore wind […] Read more
Europe Adds 4.2 GW Offshore Wind in 2023; Up 40% From 2022 Updated On Fri, Jan 19th, 2024 by Saurenergy WindEurope – a premier association promoting wind energy in Europe – held that year 2023 witnessed a record 4.2 GW of new offshore wind farms come online in Europe. This was a 40 percent increase compared to the corresponding figures from 2022. The agency said that €30 billion of new investments were confirmed in 2023 covering […] Read more
UK, German Moves To Support Offshore Wind Point To Challenges Ahead Updated On Fri, Nov 17th, 2023 by Saurenergy Ørsted’s Travails World’s biggest offshore wind energy developer- Danish firm Ørsted on November 1 this year announced ceasing developing two of its proposed offshore wind projects in the United States (US) at the cost of around £3bn in penalties. These projects were slated to come up at New Jersey off the US coast. They had […] Read more
UK Supports Slumping Offshore Wind Sector With 66% Hike In Auction Prices Updated On Fri, Nov 17th, 2023 by Saurenergy The UK, which has been one of the largest offshore wind markets until now, has moved to limit the damage and recover lost ground after a series of offshore wind projects were threatened or cancelled. The projects in the UK, and other regions, notably the US, were all cancelled due to rising costs and maintainance […] Read more
EU, US Frontrunners In Offshore Wind Patents: IRENA Report Updated On Fri, Nov 10th, 2023 by Saurenergy A latest joint report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the European Patent Office (EPO) claimed that patents over offshore wind technologies are on the rise globally. The report titled; Offshore Wind Energy Patent Insights Report showed that between 2002-2022 patent filings for offshore wind technologies grew on average by 18%. This growth […] Read more
Is Solar Trumping Wind, Again? Updated On Fri, Oct 27th, 2023 by Saurenergy Between 2017 and 2021, you wouldn’t be blamed if you thought the whole burden of adding renewable energy capacity had fallen on solar energy. Thus, even as wind turbine capacities were going up, actual wind capacity deployment, particularly onshore wind, was slumping, leaving in its wake a slew of firms struggling to survive. Dominated by […] Read more
NTPC Issues Tender For 1500 MW Of Wind Projects For ISTS Updated On Mon, Sep 25th, 2023 by Saurenergy NTPC Limited has issued an international bidding tender seeking developers to set up 1500 Megawatt (MW) of Inter-State Transmission System (ISTS) wind projects anywhere in India. The central public sector enterprise has asked the bidders to submit their bids by the end of October 19. The bids will be undertaken on a single stage two, envelope mode […] Read more
