Energy

The largest European center for sea trials entirely dedicated to floating wind power and marine renewable energies, called the OPEN-C Foundation, has been set up in France by major industry players.

New Bedford, long-known for its fishing industry, has a major role in offshore wind farms being built off the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts.

Multiple environmental groups are weighing their legal options after a judge in Baton Rouge dismissed their lawsuit challenging the construction of a liquified natural gas facility.

As momentum to develop offshore wind energy builds in North Carolina, researchers, environmental groups and state and federal government and utility leaders are working to address the challenges of this burgeoning industry.

On the eve of a GOP-led hearing into offshore wind technology, state environmental officials said there is no link between those activities and the deaths of whales washing up on Jersey Shore beaches.

The Biden administration announced a host of new environmental protections last week to limit future drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, just before it approved development of the massive Willow oil field.

OSLO — Norway’s Loke Marine Minerals has acquired deep-sea mining firm UK Seabed Resources (UKSR) from Lockheed Martin, the companies said on Thursday.

Offshore wind partners Ørsted and Eversource submitted a proposal for an 884-megawatt project called Revolution Wind 2 in response to Rhode Island’s newest wind power solicitation, promising “unprecedented investments in port improvements and shipbuilding.”

HLP believes project developers will struggle to meet demand based on current logistics practices and equipment provision.

Despite the administration’s announcement of new protections for other North Slope and coastal areas of the state, environmentalists roundly criticized Monday’s decision.

Among the budding cornucopia of new technologies and energy sources under development in the course of this energy transition, hydrogen and its viability is among the most controversial.

The Biden-Harris administration today released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. The budget reflects the Administration’s commitment to ongoing efforts vital to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) mission, which include advancing renewable energy, creating good-paying jobs with a free and fair chance to join a union, bolstering energy security, supporting economic prosperity, and ensuring the reliability and affordability of domestic clean energy.

The State of Maine recently published the final version of its Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap, sending a strong market signal that the state is increasingly ready for commercial-scale floating offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine.

The nine bills would favor natural gas power plants while placing new restrictions on renewable energy in Texas.

Research led by Earth and Environmental Studies Professor Pankaj Lal will explore the socioeconomic implications of offshore wind development in the Garden State

Decommissioning of Turbines Only Way to Mitigate Effect

A new proposal aims to streamline the process for permitting and developing offshore renewable energy projects and reduce costs to developers.

Despite the Biden Administration's efforts to tackle climate change, their oil and gas leasing could have contradicting effects on the environment according to the lawsuit.

Ocean and coastal energy compilation

A cutting-edge clean energy project to use ocean waves to power a coastal First Nation’s return to its traditional territory on Vancouver Island’s wild west coast just got a surge in funding.

NEW BEDFORD — The whaling industry put New Bedford on the map long ago by bringing the city commercial success, but in this day and age the focus has turned to offshore wind, in combination with the fishing industry as a way to drive New Bedford’s economy.

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions increased by 0.9% to reach a new record high in 2022, although the pace of growth was lower than feared, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report on Thursday.

BP, Chevron, and Talos Energy received disappointing results this week from its Puma West-2 appraisal well, Talos said.

A consortium of Dutch companies has launched a government-backed project to explore the synergies between offshore wind, offshore solar and hydrogen production at sea for improved sustainability of North Sea renewable energy projects.

Proposed lease stipulations would prioritize workforce training, domestic supply chain development, fishery protection, and community engagement