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Media Partnership: Reuters Events: Expanding Ports to Achieve Large-Scale Offshore Wind Deployment
European governments have pledged to deliver 160GW of offshore wind within the next decade, requiring €6.5bn of investment in port infrastructure by 2030 to meet these ambitions. In response to these announcements, ports are finding they will need to growing their business [...]
New report from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners: Electrification could cut Europe’s fossil fuel imports 80% by 2050
Europe can significantly reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels and lower power prices through accelerated electrification and clean energy build-out, according to a new analysis published today by CIP. The required investment is equivalent to the price premium paid for [...]
Fraunhofer IWES completes Metocean survey in Estonia for Enefit
As part of the development of the Estonian Liivi Offshore Wind Farm project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES has conducted a site condition monitoring campaign in Liivi Bay, commissioned by Enefit. The Fraunhofer IWES Stage 3+ Wind Lidar [...]
EU grants worth €600 million available for cross-border energy infrastructure projects
The Commission has launched a new call for proposals for key cross-border EU energy infrastructure projects with an indicative budget of €600 million. Organised by the Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), this is the first call open for projects included on [...]
Bałtyk 2 and 3 offshore wind farms are gaining momentum both onshore and offshore
The first phase of installing the rock-filling system to protect the seabed, further progress in the construction of the service base in Łeba, and developments at the onshore substations near Ustka, to which the first two transformers have been delivered, as [...]
Sea of Wind: A campaign by PWEA and ORLEN Foundation debunks myths
Poland is entering a pivotal phase of transformation—one based on its own predictable and sovereign energy sources, such as offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea. The year 2026 holds historical significance—it marks the launch of Poland’s first offshore wind farm. [...]
Protecting Europe’s wind farms: no energy security without physical security of energy infrastructure
Wind energy has grown to become a key feature of Europe’s energy system. Wind farms underpin our energy security, generating 20% of all electricity consumed in Europe. They are critical energy infrastructure. In a changing threat environment, Europe needs to ramp [...]
Five European TSOs investigate cooperation on offshore cable infrastructure in the North Sea
Five European Transmission System Operators (TSOs) from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at WindEurope's Annual Event in Madrid. Their intention is to enhance the affordability, efficiency, and reliability of the future electricity system by [...]
Europe needs homegrown power at scale, offshore wind is gearing up to deliver
The third day at the WindEurope Annual Event 2026 is all about offshore wind. Europe needs to move from crisis to confidence – with homegrown and secure renewable electricity. Three months after the North Sea Summit in Hamburg, governments and industry [...]
Nearly 1,300 pupils from Pomerania learn about offshore wind energy
How will energy from offshore wind farms reach the sockets in our homes? How do the turbines work? What do offshore wind farms mean for Pomerania and its residents? Pupils at primary schools in Pomerania will learn about these topics during [...]
“It has never been as difficult as it is now” – experts on barriers to onshore wind energy during the European Economic Congress in Katowice
The investment process in onshore wind energy in Poland is now more difficult than ever before – experts stated during the panel discussion “Onshore wind – efficiency and barriers”, which took place on 22 April as part of the European Economic [...]