Floating Wind Leasing Round in the Celtic Sea
The Crown Estate, which manages the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, has set out further details of a new leasing round for three commercial-scale floating wind projects in the Celtic Sea off the coast of South Wales and South West England. The projects have the potential to deliver enough clean, renewable energy for more than four million homes.In one of the largest initiatives of its kind in the world, sites totalling 4.5GW of floating wind off the coast of South Wales and South West England will be leased across three agreed areas of the Celtic Sea. This is now expected to be
ROVCO Wins Survey Work at Proposed 1.4GW Floating Wind Farm Site
analysis, processing, interpretation, and reporting.Flotation Energy’s partner on Cenos is Norwegian-offshore wind company, Vårgrønn; a joint venture between energy company Plenitude (Eni) and investor HitecVision. The joint venture secured a lease earlier this year as part of Crown Estate Scotland’s INTOG (Innovation and Targeted Oil & Gas) round.Dan Wright, Supply Chain Manager at Flotation Energy, commented: “The successful delivery of our survey campaign with Rovco enables us to maintain our fast-track delivery schedule for Cenos, a project that will decarbonize
Windfarm Site Overlap Spat Resolved
infrastructure planning permit website for Hornsea 4."BP has no remaining objection to the Hornsea Four ... application and agrees to withdraw any and all prior representations made in relation to the Hornsea 4."An Orsted spokesperson said: "We have worked constructively with BP, the Crown Estate and other stakeholders for over two years to find a pragmatic solution that will secure the future of both projects. Now that an agreement has been reached, we await the determination from the secretary of state on planning consent which is expected on July 12."Endurance's capacity alone
Floating Wind Power Gains Traction But Can It Set Sail?
Wind Offshore Wind Taskforce, said 34 GW could be installed by 2040 if ports were upgraded.It said up to 11 ports will need to be transformed into hubs to enable the roll-out of floating offshore wind at scale - along with investment of at least 4 billion pounds ($5 billion). Britain's Crown Estate will launch a tender for 4 GW of floating wind in the Celtic Sea off Wales this year but said the area had the potential to produce more than 20 GW. While Britain wants to lead the world on floating wind, some experts say South Korea could be the real winner given its existing ports
LiDAR Buoys Deployed to Capture Data for Two Scottish Floating Wind Farm Proejcts
wind projects – 900 MW Broadshore, 1.2GW Bellrock and the 1GW Stromar project it is developing in collaboration with Ørsted – the BlueFloat Energy | Renantis Partnership has recently been offered seabed exclusivity rights to develop two 99MW projects under the innovation arm of Crown Estate Scotland’s INTOG (Innovation and Targeted Oil & Gas) auction process.The Sinclair and Scaraben projects, located north of Fraserburgh and next to the Partnership’s Broadshore development, will trial innovative foundation technologies, fabrication works and mooring systems with
Floating Energy Allyance Selects Ocean Infinity for Offshore Wind Farm Survey
site investigation at its Buchan floating offshore wind project, 75 km to the northeast of Fraserburgh, Scotland.The Floating Energy Allyance last year secured the rights to develop a floating offshore wind farm with an approximate capacity of 1GW off the northeast coast of Scotland through Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind leasing round.Ocean Infinity, the company that will be conducting survey, is a specialized survey firm using innovative survey and seabed data acquisition technologies to undertake seabed surveys.Alasdair MacLeod, Project Director of Buchan Offshore Wind, said: "
UK: ORE Catapult, NZTC Team Up to Help Power Oil & Gas Platforms with Floating Wind
Alliance banner.According to the partners, the WINTOG program will drive collaboration across energy technologies to foster innovative opportunities for floating offshore wind developments, specifically those linked to the current Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round delivered by Crown Estate Scotland."The WINTOG program will look at some of the key questions associated with building floating offshore wind farms to provide clean electricity to power oil and gas installations. It will also investigate the opportunity for these integrated energy projects to support the broader developmen
Celtic Sea Floating Wind in Focus
;42 million in new quay development, while ABP’s Port Talbot is more of a “blank sheet.”Donovan said there were opportunities for high-value manufacturing but also opportunities for other ports to provide supporting roles.Tim Stiven, Innovation and New Ventures Lead (Marine) at The Crown Estate, agreed that the Celtic Sea’s strength will be having early development. But he said, “it’s an enormous industrial undertaking.” The anchor cable for 4GW would span from Milford Haven to Cardiff and back again. It will need a lot of laydown area, a lot of skill, a
CGG Joins UK Research Assessing Ecosystem Impact of Offshore Wind Farms
. The project will utilize data supplied by Mona Offshore Wind Ltd. (a joint venture between EnBW and BP), ENI, Ørsted, RWE, and The Met Office, among others. The £2M, four-year ECOWind-ACCELERATE project is funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and The Crown Estate, with support from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) as part of the ECOWind program.CGG will provide high-performance computing resources, from its global capacity of 310 petaflops, for complex climate and sediment transport modeling to determine the impact of offshore
February 2024
