offshore wind

The Scottish Government granted offshore consent for Ocean Winds' 2GW Caledonia wind farm in the Moray Firth, backed by a £1.7 billion supply-chain commitment.

Vattenfall began offshore construction on its 1.6 GW Nordlicht cluster north of Borkum, setting the first of 68 monopiles for the 980 MW Nordlicht I phase, with both wind farms slated to enter operation in 2028.

The Interior Department paid Golden State Wind $120 million to abandon its Morro Bay lease; California subpoenaed the developer and its attorney general anticipates litigation.

China Three Gorges Corporation anchored a 16 MW, 252-metre-rotor turbine in deep water off Yangjiang on May 2, setting a new benchmark for floating offshore wind and cutting cost per kilowatt by more than 50% versus its 2021 predecessor.

The 30 MW EFGL project off southern France began generating electricity on May 4, marking a milestone for floating offshore wind and anchoring a larger 250 MW follow-on.

China Huaneng Group fully energized the 504 MW Shandong Peninsula North L offshore wind farm on April 7, 2026, installing 42 twelve-megawatt turbines on jacket foundations in 52 to 56 meters of water — the deepest fixed-bottom offshore wind project ever built in China.

Vineyard Wind filed suit against GE Renewable Energy after the turbine manufacturer moved to terminate service contracts, escalating a dispute rooted in a catastrophic 2024 blade failure that set the project back nearly two years.

The 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, America's largest offshore wind farm, delivered first power on March 23 after overcoming a federal stop-work order that added $230 million in costs to the $11.5 billion project.

RWE's Thor offshore wind farm off Denmark's west coast delivered its first electricity to the Danish grid on March 16, just twelve days after installing its first turbine. The 1.1 GW project, Denmark's largest, will power over one million households when fully operational in 2027.

Federal judges have struck down all five Trump administration stop-work orders on Atlantic offshore wind projects, clearing the way for 7.5 GW of capacity to power 2.5 million homes.