#offshore-wind

An underwater data center off Shanghai has gone online using offshore wind power and seawater-based cooling, a combination its backers say cuts land use and cooling energy needs.

California officials and offshore wind backers are still pressing toward a 25-gigawatt target for 2045, arguing that the state’s resource base and long-term electricity needs outweigh a sharp change in federal policy.

Development consent for three major offshore wind projects gives the UK another step toward large-scale renewable buildout, with final investment decisions still ahead.

Ørsted and PGE have installed the first monopile foundations for Baltica 2, a 1.5-gigawatt offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea expected to power about 2.5 million households.

Northland Power has signed a 30-year corporate power purchase agreement with TSMC tied to the 1.02 GW Hai Long offshore wind project, extending contracted revenue and deepening a major industrial clean-power partnership.

Hitachi Energy will supply automation equipment including its MicroSCADA system for the Nordseecluster B offshore wind phase in Germany, supporting grid integration for 60 turbines expected to come online in 2029.

Evolve Energy Supply has signed a power purchase agreement with Shell Energy Europe for electricity from the 573MW Race Bank offshore wind farm through 2035.

The Department of the Interior has agreed to pay a French energy company $1 billion in taxpayer funds to abandon a planned offshore wind project — a move critics call an unprecedented subsidy for fossil fuel interests disguised as a settlement.

The 700-megawatt Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island has begun delivering electricity to the grid, while the larger 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind 1 has completed physical construction, marking consecutive milestones for American offshore wind.

Vena Group has signed a $674 million memorandum of understanding to develop large-scale green energy projects across South Korea, signaling growing international investment in Asia's clean energy transition.

A novel engineering project will install a data center underwater inside the base of a floating offshore wind turbine, powered directly by the turbine above.