The executive president of Iberdrola, Ignacio Galán, has toured the facilities of Astilleros Ría de Vigo to learn in detail about the electric ship project of Bibby Marine, a support vessel for offshore wind energy operations that incorporates a battery system with a storage capacity of over 24 megawatt hours...
Iberdrola, through its British subsidiary ScottishPower, has reached a new milestone in the development of the offshore wind farm "East Anglia 3", driven together with Masdar and considered the largest of the group in this technology. The complex, with an installed capacity of 1,400 megawatts (MW) and valued at 4...
RWE U.S. Offshore has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior to withdraw its offshore wind energy concessions located off the coasts of New York, California, and Louisiana. With this pact, the claims filed against the U.S. government are put to an end, which will compensate the...
Cofides, an entity linked to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business, will allocate 20 million euros to WindWaves, the offshore wind division of the Amper Group. The operation will be structured through a cash capital increase that will allow Cofides to acquire 30% of the shareholding, according to the...
The Basque Government, together with Ekarpen, will join the operation to integrate Vicinay into the industrial project promoted by Velora, the group led by Dámaso Quintana, with the aim of ensuring the continuity of this historic company. The autonomous Executive will commit 7.5 million euros to acquire 7.8% of ECN...
The Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, reiterated this Thursday that the Executive is working with the scenario of holding an offshore wind auction before the end of the year, emphasizing that these parks will be located "where there is acceptance from the territory".The head of...
Haizea Wind Group has started the production of monopiles, the large structures that are anchored to the seabed and serve as a base for wind turbines, destined for the Norfolk Vanguard West offshore wind farm, located in UK waters.As the company detailed in a statement, Norfolk Vanguard West will have...
Companies responsible for developing offshore wind energy projects show little confidence that the European Union (EU) will achieve its deployment goals. According to a new report by the think tank GlobeScan, only 7% of the sector executives consulted declare full confidence in these objectives, therefore they demand that the community...
The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, and the vice-president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Domínguez, have called on the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) to convene the offshore wind tender as soon as possible to accelerate its development, recalling that...
The Navantia Seanergies shipyard in Fene (A Coruña) has carried out for the first time the visual inspection of an offshore wind jacket structure using an autonomous aerial drone. This is a proprietary technological development that has the endorsement of the main classification societies in the offshore field, Bureau Veritas,...