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The second offshore wind declaration area has been declared for the Victorian coastline today. The declared area is reduced in size to 20% of the original proposed area, due mostly to concerns relating to the proposed declared area's location in the Bonney Upwelling and its importance for blue whale foraging, together with concerns about commercial fishing. It will be interesting to see if this affects the number of Feasibility Licence Applications that are submitted for this area, and ultimately how many developers are awarded licences.

Is the Australian offshore wind bubble finally bursting? It is important to take a realistic view on the potential for offshore wind in Australia.

Offshore wind projects can get mired in conflicts with local communities. This CLEE report explains how to empower communities while also paving the road to project approval. https://lnkd.in/gnVzqAgH

IPF Offshore Wind New Orleans Great to spend this week in New Orleans for the IPF Offshore Wind event organised by the Oceantic Network. The US market offers undoubted opportunities for floating wind, and it’ll be interesting to see this market developing at pace. #offshorewind #floatingwind

New analysis reveals UK offshore wind capacity maintained second place in global league table, despite rate of additions falling in 2023. Read the full article. 👇 https://hubs.la/Q02qXz0R0 #Wind #OffshoreWind #UKmfg #Sustainability

Persistence is a valued business quality, but offshore wind developers are making fools of themselves with repeated project cancellations and broken contracts. State governments and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management are also getting a bad rap for having the rug pulled on their pet projects. About 60 percent of the contracts signed by U.S. offshore wind developers have been canceled since the start of last year. How many eggs to the face is this industry willing to take? Just pull the plug already. Offshore wind is environmentally, economically, and socially unacceptable. Move on. #offshorewind #climatechange #atlanticshores #atlanticshoresoffshorewind #njbpu #windenergy https://lnkd.in/ecy4_Dvn

Floating Offshore Wind!! Follow me on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/gni_S56D Poised to be the next significant Industrial Revolution!! Without a Ports solution to support GIG scale execution, there is NO floating offshore wind! Without a launching and retreival solution that supports GIG scale delivery, there is NO floating offshore wind! Without a crane to suppprt GIG scale integration, there is no floating offshore wind! From Concept to Decommissioning this comes down to: - Operational safety - Maximizing local content - CO2 reduction - Air quality for port communities - Port water quality - Reduction in CAPEX - Reduction in OPEX - Optimized DEVEX - Less reliance on overseas supply - Less reliance on Carbon Credits - Reduction in LCoE for consumers Bardex have simple pragmatic solutions based on existing scalable technology that supports a very short ROI that could lead to ports making hundreds of millions of dollars at a Gigawatt (GIG) scale while also benefiting developers who could save hundreds of millions. This solution has the potential to significantly reduce the CO2 footprint for the ports and for every floating offshore wind platform installed, impacting the entire life cycle of the wind farm. It also reduces the reliance on Carbon Credits up to the final decommissioning stage, enabling the saved funds across the life cycle to be utilized for lowering LCoE and boosting the local supply chain, thereby creating more high-paying jobs and less reliance on over seas supply. Port industrialization: https://lnkd.in/gNDXdZS9 Alternative launch and retrieval solutions: https://lnkd.in/gqTjWrzU Mooring solution for tight weather windows: https://lnkd.in/eaJjnbpy #OffshoreWind #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #Innovation #Mooring

FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE: "It is becoming clear for the United States to reach its decarbonization target of net-zero emissions by 2050, a robust offshore wind sector will be an important piece of the puzzle. The federal government has recognized this and, in response, has set an ambitious target of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030. In the past few years, that shift toward making offshore wind more of a priority has made headway." Read the full story, written by IREI's associate editor Lewis Dayton, in the July/August issue of i3, here.

You are gaslighting for the fossil industry. You are a marionette for their think-tanks. And you know it, as you are going on relentlessly with your emotion calling posts. The impact of oil drilling and fracking is by far worse than any renewable energy tchnologies. There are all kinds of measures taken to prevent casualties of bats and birds. At same time the fishing industry is devastating marine ecosystems loosing their nets big time and grinding the sea floors, killing whales and by-catch.

Offshore Wind Development in the US: Progress and Challenges Along the East Coast https://lnkd.in/gw6MCVm6 #OffshoreWind #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition #SustainableDevelopment