Perspective is everything.  Great feats of American engineering and infrastructure have never been created by just one person or one company, but rather, they’re the collective product of many people working together over many years to produce a monumental accomplishment.  The offshore wind infrastructure arising now in the United States Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of...Read More

GE Haliade-X Is First of 62 Wind Turbines for First-in-the-Nation Project that Will Power More than 400,000 Homes and Businesses in Massachusetts (BOSTON, MA) – Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), a leading sustainable energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a global leader in green energy investment, announced on October...Read More

Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between AVANGRID, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), announced on June 7, 2023 that work installing the first monopiles and transition pieces has started on the first-in-the-nation commercial scale offshore wind farm.  The heavy lift vessel ORION, which is being operated by DEME, will work with a team...Read More

Some offshore renewable energy regulations (mostly pertaining to offshore wind) dealing with workplace safety and environmental compliance will be transferred from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), the U.S. Department of Interior announced yesterday, Jan. 17, 2023. A joint notice to lessees outlines the transfer of...Read More

Guice Offshore co-founders Nathan and Billy Guice are among the mentors participating in the inaugural cohort for the new Gulf Blue “Navigators” business incubator designed to assist bluetech startups that already have a pilot program in place and are ready to scale.    Bluetech industries include precision marine aquaculture, sea and space systems, ocean data and analytics,...Read More

The U.S. Coast Guard First District is wrapping up an extensive study on the approaches to Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Port Access Routes, but there’s still time for the public to contribute written comments for the Coast Guard to consider before the February 2, 2023 deadline. Before establishing or adjusting traffic separation schemes (TSS)...Read More

On Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the availability of two draft Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) for two new offshore wind projects for public review and comment, thereby advancing the regulatory process for construction to begin.  Known as the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project and the Sunrise...Read More

Proposed Central Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Areas Include North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware; Comments Open Through Dec. 16, 2022 Plans for offshore wind energy are taking shape on the U.S. Central Atlantic coast with eight draft Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) identified for development.  The opportunity for the public and interested parties to review the...Read More

On October 31, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced it has finalized two Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) in the Gulf of Mexico, with the aggregate potential to produce enough clean wind energy to power nearly 3 million homes. The first WEA is located approximately 24 nautical miles (nm) off the coast of...Read More

New Offshore Wind Supply Chain Roadmap Partnership Will Advance Rapid U.S. Offshore Wind Deployment, Create Good-Paying Jobs to Equitably Benefit Local Communities, and Increase Energy Security Following the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) March 2022 report entitled The Demand for a Domestic Offshore Wind Energy Supply Chain,  the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced during...Read More