Floating wind revolution stalls as Norway weighs subsidy review

Floating wind is the dominant thread across this morning's wind news. Norway (home to Equinor's Hywind projects and the most advanced floating lease programme in Europe) is moving toward a formal subsidy review, according to Renews.biz. No date or scope has been published yet, but any tightening of Norwegian support would ripple through a technology that still depends on contract-for-difference floors to reach investment decisions.

Recharge News frames the wider problem: floating wind delays are systemic, not country-specific. The piece points to cost overruns, limited heavy-lift vessel capacity, and slow permitting as the three compounding factors, none of which are resolved by incremental policy tweaks. Commercial-scale floating arrays in Europe remain largely pre-FID.

Elsewhere, conventional wind activity continued. Vestas booked 112 MW across French onshore sites; Nordex added 100 MW in Eastern Europe. Both announcements carry no turbine-model or delivery detail in the available headlines. In Ireland, an onshore permit was filed for Spiorad na Mara, a project whose offshore component sits in the Atlantic west of Mayo, marking a concrete step toward grid connection, per Renews.biz.