The subsidy-free tender for the offshore wind farm sites Hollandse Kust (Zuid) 3 & 4 has closed. RVO.nl reported that four parties have submitted their bids, the same number as previously seen with the first subsidy-free offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (Zuid) 1 & 2, which was won by Swedish developer Vattenfall. Vattenfall, Ørsted and…
Shell, Van Oord and Eneco announced that they have tendered for the construction and operation of Dutch offshore wind farms Hollandse Kust (zuid) III and IV through the newly created consortium Witwind. The consortium plans to start operation of the Hollandse Kust (zuid) III and IV sites in 2023. The wind farms are expected to…
Shell, innogy SE and Stiesdal Offshore Technologies A/S (SOT) have taken the final investment decision on the €18 million ‘TetraSpar’ floating foundation demonstration project. This is a next step in floating wind. The demonstration project will be tested off the Norwegian coast in 2020. TetraSpar modular floating foundation The TetraSpar is an innovation by SOT.…
Shell announced today that it is joining forces with cooperative Dutch pension fund service provider PGGM to explore the opportunity to participate in the controlled auction for the energy company Eneco that was announced in December 2018. They outlined their intentions in an open letter. In the open letter PGGM and Shell express that they…
Mayflower Wind Energy LLC,a 50:50 joint venture between EDPR Offshore North America LLC and Shell New Energies US LLC, was announced the provisional winner of block 0521 in the offshore wind auction hosted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Mayflower bid $135M for the exclusive rights to develop the federal commercial wind energy. Once…
Belgian marine contractor DEME, energy company Shell and French marine renewable technology specialist Quadran Energies Marines are partnering up to bid for the French Dunkirk offshore wind farm under the name ‘Moulins de Flandre’. The call for tender opened last week. The 500 MW Dunkirk offshore wind farm is to be developed off the coast at…
Liander has signed a 10-year contract with Shell Energy Europe Ltd for the procurement of Guarantees of Origin (GoOs) from the Borssele III & IV Wind Farm wind farm. By doing so, the network operator is looking to offset its carbon emissions, caused mainly by grid losses during the transmission, by 11% to 14% over…
On 5 October Shell, innogy SE and Stiesdal Offshore Technologies A/S (SOT) signed an investment and cooperation agreement to build a floating wind turbine demonstration project at the Metcentre demonstration site near Stavanger in Norway. The demonstration project is based on SOT’s ‘TetraSpar’ floating foundation concept in combination with a 3.6MW Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy…
In een consortium met Van Oord, Eneco en Vestas wil Shell gaan bieden op de aanbesteding van offshore windparken voor de Nederlandse kust. Voor de oliemaatschappij is dat een opvallende koerswijziging. Sinds een aantal jaar pleegt Shell immers geen investeringen in alternatieve energie meer te doen. Het jaarverslag van 2015 kondigde de wijziging al aan,…
De kans is aanwezig dat Shell zich in de markt voor offshore windenergie begeeft. Vooral windparken in diep water zijn interessant. Dit stelde CEO Gerald Schotman van de NAM gisteren op het symposium I Am Innovation in Rotterdam. “Bijna iedereen is in principe voor windenergie”, aldus Schotman, die tot vorig jaar als CTO bij Shell…
