据海上风能网6月10日报道，近日挪威国家石油公司和英国石油公司在纽约启动了一个海上风能创新中心（Offshore Wind Innovation Hub），他们表示，该中心将促进与初创企业的合作，为不断增长的美国海上风能行业带来新的技术解决方案。

该项目由Equinor牵头，代表其与bp的50/50合资企业，是Equinor、纽约坦东工程学院的城市未来实验室和由纽约市经济发展公司支持的国家海上风能研发联盟三年合作的结果。

Equinor在一份新闻稿中表示，新的创新中心将利用城市未来实验室的成功，促进和帮助启动清洁技术初创企业，促进与国际孵化器社区的合作，培养加速海上风能发展的试点和示范项目。

该创新中心将创建一个物理位置，在那里他们将为初创公司举办教育规划、研讨会和课程，以及网络机会，该中心还将作为行业创新生态系统的中心。

在接下来的几个月里，这两家合作伙伴将准备一份申请文件，以寻找拥有能够应对美国海上风电挑战的技术的初创企业。一旦被选中，这些初创企业将获得UFL和NOWRDC的支持和规划，并有可能成为Equinor的合作伙伴。

该创新中心将位于Equinor和bp在日落公园的新项目办公室附近，该园区是这两家公司大规模海上风力业务的基地，包括816兆瓦的Empire Wind1号、1.2吉瓦的Empire Wind2号和1.2吉瓦的Beacon Wind1号项目。

郝芬 译自 海上风能网

原文如下：

Equinor and BP Launch Offshore Wind Innovation Hub in New York

Equinor and BP have launched an Offshore Wind Innovation Hub in New York that they say will facilitate partnerships with start-ups that bring new technological solutions to the growing US offshore wind industry.

The initiative is being led by Equinor on behalf of its 50/50 joint venture with BP and is a result of a three-year partnership between Equinor, the Urban Future Lab (UFL) at the NY Tandon School of Engineering, and the National Offshore Wind R&D Consortium (NOWRDC), backed by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC).

“The new Innovation Hub will leverage the success of the Urban Future Lab in promoting and helping the launch of cleantech start-ups, fostering collaboration with the international incubator community to cultivate pilots and demonstration projects that accelerate advances in offshore wind”, according to a press release from Equinor.

The Innovation Hub will create a physical location where they will host educational programming, workshops, and curricula for the startups, as well as networking opportunities, and the hub will also serve as a centre for the industry’s innovation ecosystem.

In the next months, the partners will prepare a call for applications to find start-ups with technologies tackling challenges in front of US offshore wind. once selected, the start-ups will then receive support and programming from UFL and NOWRDC, and could potentially become partners of Equinor.

The Innovation Hub will be located adjacent to Equinor and BP’s new project office in Sunset Park that serves as the base for the companies’ large-scale offshore wind operations, including the 816 MW Empire Wind 1, the 1.2 GW Empire Wind 2, and the 1.2 GW Beacon Wind 1 projects.