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Marine geosciences and offshore construction support services company NextGeo has appointed Frank Koopman as Offshore Wind Strategy Director…

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has approved the implementation updates for PDP8.

If offshore wind industrialization is allowed in these fishing grounds the communities connected to these areas will suffer. Are you willing to take a map of the state of Maine and eliminate the fishing grounds for these fishermen? Just going somewhere else seems reasonable to some, usually people with no fishing experience, but it is much more complicated than that.

New Bedford awaits impact on changes to the offshore wind solicitation process now that there's a greater focus on economic benefits.

Seaway7’s scope includes the transport and installation of four substations. Offshore activity is scheduled to take place in 2026 utilizing both our heavy lift and heavy transportation vessels.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management , through investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners , a private infrastructure investment platform within MSIM, today announced it has...

Anti-offshore wind sentiment is based on many factors. High on the list of grievances, however, is the environmental toll of the projects. Opponents cite whale deaths, disruption to bird migration patterns, and a host of other ecological consequences as reasons alone to scrap the projects. What can be surmised about the ecological impacts of offshore turbine development? While there is still much to learn, here are three research-backed ecological effects of offshore wind development.

"In some sense, they’re not banning anything right now."

All energy production methods come at a cost. Exactly how costly are offshore wind projects to the natural ecosystem?

Massachusetts is seeking as much as 3,600 megawatts of offshore wind capacity in its fourth procurement round, its biggest procurement ever. And through a tri-state partnership with Rhode Island and Connecticut, Massachusetts and its neighbors are planning to coordinate their selections for a combined 6,000 MW of offshore wind energy capacity, leading to the possibility of multi-state projects although the newly submitted bids in the aggregate fall short of reaching that 6,000 MW threshold.