The 6th edition of Go Digital Energy, a business conference focused on sharing the best digitalisation practices to achieve efficient and sustainable operation will take place on the 7th and 8th of June in Amsterdam and online.
The UK and Denmark are widely considered the titans of the offshore wind industry and the third episode of Bigger Faster Better explores the outlook for this low-carbon technology as the global energy transition gathers pace.
Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), Toho Gas and Hokuriku Electric Power, will buy a 25% share in the 128 MW Formosa I offshore wind project in Taiwan from Macquaries’ Green Investment Group, which is exiting the country’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm.
Manufacturers and developers including Ørsted and Lamprell have signed a series of MoUs and supplier agreements, as both seek to guarantee capacity ahead of a wave of new offshore wind projects.
A Mitsubishi-led consortium has dominated Japan’s first-ever fixed-bottom offshore wind auction with record-low prices. The results surprised the industry, but European know-how will still be needed to make the nascent sector a success in Japan.
Ørsted has signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with two South Korean utilities which would see the companies collaborate on a proposed 1.6GW offshore wind project.
Orsted has announced that Matthias Bausenwein will return to Europe for family reasons and take on a new role outside of Orsted. He will therefore step down from his position as president of Asia-Pacific and chairman of Orsted Taiwan on 20 January.
It is claimed that low wind speeds may just be one of a “myriad” of factors that have led to truncated green energy production in Europe in recent months.
It’s been 20 years since Ørsted (at that time called Dong Energy, and very much a major oil & gas company) commissioned Vindeby in Denmark, which was the world’s first offshore wind farm. It took another 10 years from this modest start (5MW, powering just 2,200 homes) for the offshore wind industry to really start to take off.
The fourth episode of Gigawaters looks to the future, examining how Scotland can make the most of the opportunities presented by floating wind technology.