Source: Houston Chronicle Equinor said Friday it will build the first-ever offshore floating wind development designed to power its oil and gas platforms off the coast of Norway. The roughly $550 million Hywind Tampen project will be built about 85 miles offshore to power the Snorre and Gullfaks platforms in the North Sea. The water depths are deep enough that floating wind
With Hollywood seed funding, startup is testing abandoned oil and gas wells as grid-scale energy storage solution for wind and solar generation “Our goal is to get to a cost point that’s potentially lower by a factor of about ten times than the batteries that you read about in the popular media, especially from companies like Tesla,” Aaron Mandell, Quidnet
Department of Interior looking to triple federal offshore acreage for wind development In a press release on Monday, the Department of Interior announced that more than 742,000 acres offshore Massachusetts will be offered for commercial wind energy development in a January 29, 2015, competitive lease sale. According to an analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy
