Orlando Jenkinson

2 weeks ago | windpowermonthly.com | Orlando Jenkinson

Shipping firm Cadeler will acquire a new jack-up vessel made in China and designed to install offshore wind turbines. The Danish shipping company today (22 May) said it had agreed to purchase the Boqiang 3060 jack-up vessel from Chinese shipbuilding firm Shanghai Boqiang Heavy Industry Group to enhance its capacity and help it adhere to rising global demand for such vessels. Cadeler said it planned to rename the vessel ‘Wind Keeper’.

2 weeks ago | windpowermonthly.com | Orlando Jenkinson

The W8banaki nation in Quebec, Canada has signed an agreement to allow the exploration of wind power development on their ancestral territory with renewable energy firm BluEarth. The W8banaki nation is a first peoples nation centred on Lac Saint-Pierre between Montreal and Quebec City in Canada. Its ancestral land – known as “Ndakina” – includes lands in Quebec in Canada and Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire in the US.

2 weeks ago | windpowermonthly.com | Orlando Jenkinson

Romania is calling for developers to express their interest in building offshore wind farms as it targets 3GW of Black Sea wind capacity by 2035. Energy minister Sebastian Burduja today (20 May) said the country had launched an “open call for expressions of interest regarding the identification and delineation of perimeters in the Black Sea,” where the country could build offshore wind farms.

2 weeks ago | windpowermonthly.com | Robyn White |Orlando Jenkinson

This time on the news review, we ask our panellists for their views on a tumultuous few weeks in the US, which has seen the US government order a stop to work at Equinor’s Empire Wind offshore wind project in New York. The halt order has since been rescinded, but uncertainty continues to reign in the west’s biggest wind power market.

2 weeks ago | windpowermonthly.com | Orlando Jenkinson

Chinese manufacturers continued to dominate the global supply of wind turbines in 2024, as installations hit record levels despite widespread economic challenges, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).