TotalEnergies Seeks Foot In California Offshore Wind Door
Fresh off its triumph in the New York Bight wind auction, TotalEnergies has set its sights on a new 1-gigawatt opportunity off the coast of California.
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How France Is Solving California’s Offshore Wind Power Problem
A gigantic floating offshore wind power project in France could prompt California to finally open its waters up to clean energy.
New Offshore Wind Energy Farm Aims For Hawaii Trifecta
Getting offshore wind energy to Hawaii is an extremely complicated dance, but the Danish wind energy consortium AWE seems to have figured out the steps.
Floating Wind Turbines Float Into US Waters (Finally!)
An offshore wind turbine demonstration project at Coos Bay off the Oregon coast has finally put the US on the global floating wind turbine map.The US has been lagging badly while other countries spring ahead with offshore wind farms, but it when it comes to the niche sector of floating wind turbines we’re right up there with the front-runners.
Wind Radar Tech Gets A Boost (WINDPOWER 2014)
Originally published on Energy & Policy Institute. Today the very big technical news for me is dual-doppler meteorology radar applied to create very high precision wind maps of operational wind farms. Brian Hirth of the Texas Tech University and his team have applied technology typically used for high-accuracy real time imaging … [continued]
1st Offshore Wind Farm For US West Coast May Soon Pop Up Off Of Oregon
Originally published on ThinkProgress. By Katie Valentine. A Seattle wind company has gotten the go-ahead to develop plans for a 30-megawatt offshore wind pilot project off of Oregon’s Coos Bay, officials announced this week. The project, developed by Principle Power, would employ five floating wind turbines about 15 miles off … [continued]
We Built This! Offshore Wind Power Gets Big Bucks From Joe Public
The U.S. Department of Energy has just issued a first round of funding to develop seven new demonstration offshore wind power projects in Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia. The initial grants of $4 million for each project will cover engineering, design, and permitting costs. If all goes … [continued]
Floating Wind Turbine Installed off Portuguese Coast
We’ve been following the Principle Power and Vestas offshore floating wind turbine and floating WindFloat foundation for awhile. The exciting news is that today it was finally announced the the floating turbine was inaugurated on Friday, June 16. “In addition to being the first offshore wind turbine in Portugal, this is … [continued]
2-MW WindFloat Towed To Atlantic Site off Portuguese Coast
A Portuguese utility, Energias de Portugal, and Seattle-based offshore wind energy developer and Principle Power, Inc. have deployed a full-scale 2-megawatt WindFloat off the coast of Agucadoura, Portugal.
Principle Power's WindFloat to Perform First Inter-Energy Marriage
Somewhere in the U.S. there is a justice of the peace who still refuses to perform inter-racial marriages, but Principle Power, Inc. has no such backward looking qualms when it comes marrying two different forms of sustainable energy. Last week the company won a $750,000 development grant from the U.S. … [continued]
