Japanese officials announced the start of commercial operation of a 16.8-MW floating offshore wind farm, a first for that ...

The project’s timeline began after the Goto-city offshore area was designated as a promotion zone in December 2019.

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

Floating offshore wind made a remarkable splash this fall. As two much-watched projects sailed toward construction, optimism about the industry’s accelerated growth was buoyed by projections from the ...

Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it also has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making ...

The University of Maine is contributing to the global effort to improve floating machines to harness wind over deeper offshore waters. Researchers envision turbine platforms floating in the ocean ...

Last May, inside a sprawling building in the Netherlands, a team from a California-based startup stood next to a deep indoor pool and waited for a wave machine to be turned on, simulating the open ...

A drumbeat of floating offshore wind–related developments this year suggests the pipeline for the long-nascent wind technology sub-sector may be finally beginning to grow. While floating wind’s ...

The world’s first floating offshore wind farm, Hywind Scotland, has been in operation since 2017. On its fifth birthday, its operators shared how it’s going and what they’ve learned. Hywind Scotland, ...

An oil company announced plans Thursday to build next year what it claims will be the world's first full-scale floating wind turbine. State-controlled StatoilHydro ASA, based in the western port of ...

Toda Construction said on Monday that its consortium has started commercial operations at the Goto offshore wind farm in Nagasaki in southern Japan, marking the country's first commercial floating ...