The federal government agreed this week to lease a 15.2-square-mile site to Maine, to develop the nation’s first floating offshore wind research site in federal waters. The offer comes on the heels of ...

VolturnUS is UMaine's patented floating concrete hull technology that has been awarded 43 patents in the U.S. and abroad. (University of Maine image) An effort to study the impacts of offshore wind in ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has awarded the US’s first floating offshore wind energy research lease to the State of Maine. The lease area covers under 15,000 acres and is 28 nautical ...

Japan's first commercial floating offshore wind farm has begun operations, using world-first hybrid spar-type floating ...

Gov. Janet Mills’ plan to make Maine an international leader in ocean wind power is reaching a critical juncture. State officials argue that harnessing wind power can deliver a tremendous amount of ...

Think of the Washington Monument. Imagine it sitting on the surface of the sea, with blades as long as a football field ...

A group of scientists from China conducted a numerical study on the wind sensitivity of offshore floating photovoltaics in an effort to investigate system configurations that may be less sensitive to ...

Subsea Collector connects multiple wind turbines in a star configuration to floating wind’s first subsea power distribution system. Source Aker Solutions Shoreline Wind’s simulation solutions help ...

Norwegian oil major Equinor has signed a collaboration agreement with the Eni-led Vargronn joint venture to jointly bid in a tender for a floating wind array at Utsira North in the Norwegian North Sea ...

Twenty-five kilometres offshore from the site of the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster a floating wind power project is presenting Japan with an opportunity to take its energy sector in a new ...