Energy

This summer the Netherlands will see the deployment of a self-propelled container barge utilizing battery power, an undertaking supported by a long-term contract with the Dutch beer maker Heineken.

• Dominion Energy-led consortium building America’s first offshore wind turbine installation vessel, creating hundreds of U.S. jobs while achieving a historic milestone for domestic offshore wind industry • Vessel will be used to install Ørsted-Eversource’s Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind, two of the nation’s first large-scale offshore wind farms, working first from State Pier in New London, Conn. • Charybdis will be homeported in Hampton Roads, Va. and manned with an American crew

The Biden Administration announced that the U.S. Departments of Interior and Defense have reached agreement on California sea-space and other issues, clearing the way to move ahead with development of the state’s multi-gigawatt (GW) offshore wind power potential on its Central and North coasts.