A study for the Renewable Energies Hamburg cluster puts the sector at around 31,000 jobs and 5.3 billion euros in gross value added, with wind the largest segment at about 13,000 jobs.
From reef panels on a floating platform to ultrasonic bat sensors in Latvian waters and GPS-tagged gulls off Finland, offshore wind's environmental surveys are becoming applied marine science.
Frankfurt advisory firm Capcora will run the sale of wind project rights totalling about 32 GW held by the insolvent SOWITEC Group, including roughly 330 MW in Germany.
With 2.6 GW installed, Poland's first dedicated offshore installation port and a 6 GW project pipeline offshore, West Pomerania has the infrastructure. Whether it becomes an industrial base or a transit hub depends on local content.
Summit declarations, a NATO-funding proposal and a Finnish intelligence assessment now point the same way: Baltic offshore wind is being treated as critical infrastructure. Poland shows what that means on the ground.
Electric cranes accounted for more than 80% of MacGregor's crane order intake in the first half of 2026, with heavy-lift and multipurpose vessels driving most of the demand.
Electrum says the renewable capacity it services under O&M contracts in Poland has passed 4 GW, up from close to 3 GW less than a year ago.
Baltic Power's construction ends in the second half of 2026 and the Łeba base pivots to roughly 30 years of operations. The open question is whether it becomes a single-farm service base or the anchor of a Baltic O&M cluster.
The Varel-based services company now monitors more than 1 GW of wind, solar, hybrid and storage capacity in Germany and the Netherlands from its 24/7 control room.
Congestion cost Europe EUR 8.9bn in 2024 and 72 TWh was curtailed. From GriffinLink to Baltic cable repair modules and Finland's hydrogen roadmap, the region's binding constraint is shifting from generation to everything that carries it.
A hydrogen-iron battery will provide long-duration wind storage in the Netherlands, while Germany adds a 310 MW Eco Stor site and a 99 MW Zelestra battery under a Centrica tolling deal.
Vestas reported a sharp Q2 profit rise with a EUR 400m buyback and led the RENIXX that week, while Enercon closed its turnaround with new billion-euro financing.
Scatec is moving into Romanian onshore wind, broadening a largely solar portfolio, and reported second-quarter power production up 21 per cent year on year.
Renewables neared half of EU electricity in July 2026, with solar almost level with nuclear as heat and low water constrained European reactors.
Sustained heat and low river levels cut European nuclear output, leaving Romania without nuclear generation for the first time since 2003.
SuedLink's 5.2 km ElbX tunnel under the Elbe is complete. Cable pulling starts late 2027 and the 700 km link enters service at the end of 2028.
Germany added 3,948 MW of wind between January and July 2026, up 53 per cent year on year, with 1,194 MW of it offshore after a year with no offshore commissioning at all.
Germany's grid connection package faces a constitutional opinion against it, doubts over EU-law compatibility, a Bundeskartellamt warning and an EU complaint against the capacity market law.
Ørsted will reinstate dividends for the 2026 financial year with a first payout in 2027, following a USD 9.35bn rights issue and a completed divestment programme.
Turkey has released a draft 1 GW offshore wind YEKA tender covering four Aegean areas, with the auction due in Q1 2027 and a 5 GW target for 2035.
All 64 Vestas 15 MW turbines are installed at EnBW's 960 MW He Dreiht, Germany's largest offshore wind farm, built without subsidy and backed by corporate PPAs.
After Germany's offshore auction drew zero bids, the WindSeeG draft proposes 2,000-4,800 MW annual volumes, two-sided CfDs and 35-year operating lives. Industry says it does not go far enough.
With 111 foundations in place at Baltica 2, more than 400 secondary steel units follow — around 75 per cent of them made in Poland — in work running to the end of 2026.
Abstracts for WindEurope's Annual Event 2027 in Copenhagen, 20-22 April, close on 4 September. Commercial content will be rejected; Startup Pavilion applications are open.
Polish offshore wind has moved local content from strategy documents into signed contracts — towers, foundations, FEED work and permits. A look at which parts of the chain Poland has captured, and which remain out of reach.
An IWR analysis argues that Germany's capacity market, EEG amendment and grid connection package shift system control to regulated monopolies and will push electricity prices up rather than down.
BWO hosts an online panel on 26 August with Peter Liese MEP, Steelwind Nordenham, Salzgitter and Ørsted on what ETS revision means for offshore wind steel.
DNV has certified MacGregor's Horizon gangway for floating-to-floating personnel transfer, using a redesigned tip and LiDAR motion tracking to connect two independently moving vessels.
Eurowind Energy has bought two permitted onshore wind projects in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania totalling 86.7 MW across thirteen turbines.
Two Limburg wind farms have been fitted with aircraft detection lighting by Dark Sky and ENERTRAG Systemtechnik, with Dutch regulator approval and test flights to follow.
ABB will deliver four 3.5 MW Azipod units and a full power system for Grand Tour, a 230-metre semi-submersible built to move offshore converter stations for Allseas.
A DNV-witnessed trial at Esbjerg has shown Stillstrom's cable control system managing offshore charging automatically while a vessel holds position on DP.
PGE and Ørsted have installed all 111 monopile foundations at the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm on schedule. Secondary steel work now runs to the end of 2026, with turbines due in 2027.
CS Wind Offshore has replaced manual flame-cutting with a magnet-mounted CNC gantry machine for cable penetrations in transition pieces, achieving 0.3 mm tolerance.
BrestPort has secured over €58 million from France 2030 to convert its offshore renewables terminal for floating wind assembly, with Lorient taking on mooring logistics and maintenance.
The 23rd and final caisson is in place at the Princess Elisabeth Energy Island off Belgium, completing foundation works. Cable connections follow in 2027–2028, with full completion due in 2031.
The BWO is holding an online talk on 26 August 2026 on the EU's proposed emissions-trading reform and what it means for steel procurement and the offshore wind supply chain.
Nordex Group reported a 10.3 per cent EBITDA margin, a 32 per cent jump in order intake and €165m of free cash flow in the second quarter of 2026, and confirmed its full-year guidance.
The Baltic is too shallow to need Neretek's BC90 foundation. But the factories, quays and welders that a 60-90 metre foundation class would draw on are already working on Baltica 2.
Alterric has lifted its syndicated green loan from €300m to €350m, with Crédit Agricole CIB joining Commerzbank and ING, to match a development pipeline of around 11,000 MW.
Nordex will supply twelve turbines totalling around 82 MW for community wind projects at Erlte-Endel and the Bad Essen cluster in Lower Saxony, with commissioning planned for spring 2028.
Germany's 70 GW offshore target now hinges less on ambition than on money. Three reforms — CfD auctions, the AgNes network-charge overhaul and cross-border grid links — are reshaping the economics, with clear lessons for the Baltic.
Germany's 2026 onshore wind auctions are heavily oversubscribed. A look at the volumes, prices and the developers — Qualitas, UKA, Alterric — shaping the market, and what it means for the Baltic.
ENOVA has set up ENOVA Generation GmbH, majority-owned by Sosteneo, taking on eleven German wind farms (~350 MW) with a target of 1 GW.
WindEurope is backing two Cycling4Climate rides in September: Brussels on 12 September and Szczecin on 19 September, the latter with PSEW.
"First power to the grid" sounds like flipping a switch, but it is the visible tip of offshore wind commissioning — a sequence running from seabed surveys and cable trenching to onshore substation tests and grid-operator compliance. Baltic Power and Baltica 2 show how it works.
RWE will receive USD 1.22 billion for returning its US offshore wind leases, the latest project buy-back under the Trump administration. Capital freed from cancelled US commitments could flow toward European and Baltic pipelines instead.
Germany's BMWE has opened consultation on the 2026 WindSeeG amendment, introducing two-sided CfDs and a 35-year operating life. The offshore association BWO backs the direction but says the two-stage tender model must not turn price protection into a last resort.
Poland's first purpose-built offshore wind installation port anchors a supply chain forming along the West Pomeranian coast. A look at how installation terminals work and why they set the pace of the build-out.
ENOVA has finished repowering its Gehrde wind farm near Osnabrück, replacing four 2002-era Enercon E-66 turbines with three E-138 machines for a combined 12.6 MW.
ENERTRAG has opened a wind-service training centre in Dauerthal, training apprentices fully in-house and recruiting technicians from abroad as the sector's skills shortage bites.
Nordex has won an order for around 525 MW — 72 N175/6.X turbines — from Türkerler Holding for the YEKA-5 Sivas project, its largest single order in Turkey.
Nordex will supply 11 N175/6.X turbines for OX2's 77 MW Urleasca wind farm in Romania, now sold to Scatec, with construction starting in Q3 2026.
Germany's cabinet has passed the EEG 2027 amendment and grid-connection package. Wind developer Alterric warns the rules could seriously slow the renewables build-out and urges the Bundestag to revise them.
VSB has finished the Vockenrod wind farm expansion in Hesse, adding two Nordex N149-5.X turbines to reach five machines and 28.5 MW in total.
Qualitas Energy has started building the 42 MW Ingstetten repowering in Baden-Württemberg, swapping five old turbines for six Enercon E-175 machines.
The science on wind turbines and health is settled: no confirmed harm, and noise at a safe distance comparable to a fridge. So why does the health scare persist — and what actually counters it?
Alterric says Germany's cabinet-approved EEG amendment and grid connection package risk raising generation costs and stalling the renewables build-out, and has urged the Bundestag to make corrections.
Qualitas Energy has started construction on the repowering of the Ingstetten wind farm, replacing five old turbines with six 7 MW Enercon E-175 machines for a total of 42 MW.
VSB Deutschland has completed the expansion of its Vockenrod wind farm in Hesse, taking the site to five turbines and 28.5 MW of installed capacity.
With Baltic Power online, the PGE–Ørsted Baltica programme is Poland's next offshore frontier — from the Choczewo substation to 150 km of seabed cable routes and 107 turbines bound for Gdańsk.
Sweden approved over 5 GW of battery parks in five years, Kyon Energy is building across three German states at once, and Alterric is co-locating storage with wind — a snapshot of the Baltic–German battery boom.
WindEurope has opened applications for Hack the Climate 2026 in Dublin, a 28–30 September hackathon tackling renewable curtailment with partners ESB, Hitachi Energy, Microsoft and SSE Airtricity.
The Nordex Group has closed a €2.475 billion ESG-linked syndicated guarantee facility running to 2031, arranged with 15 banks, which its CFO calls the completion of the company's turnaround.
Deepwater foundations, floating platforms designed to host marine life, and hybrid wave-wind-solar units point to an offshore toolbox built for the Baltic's crowded, contested seas.
Sweden has rejected Eolus's Vaestvind and Najaderna offshore wind projects on defence grounds, part of a round rejecting 11 projects and a shift to tenders.
WindEurope has opened its call for abstracts for the 2027 Annual Event in Copenhagen (20-22 April), with a submission deadline of 4 September 2026.
RWE has sent first power to the German grid from Nordseecluster A, the 660 MW opening phase of its 1.6 GW North Sea offshore wind project.
After a failed 2025 auction and suspended 2026 rounds, Germany has moved to reset its offshore wind market — through a North Sea investment pact, regulatory protection for existing projects, a Bundesrat reform push and cross-border cooperation that increasingly runs through the Baltic.
Ports, factories and a growing supply chain are turning Poland's West Pomeranian coast into the industrial base for the country's offshore wind expansion.
Familiar claims paint Polish wind power as unhealthy, unreliable and uneconomic. A growing body of research maps where those narratives come from, what they cost, and why Poland's own Grajewo model points to the answer.
Poland's first offshore wind farm has gone from empty seabed to first power in under two years. Here is how Baltic Power was built — and what comes after the turbines are switched on.
energy grid service has received the final VDE component certificate for its self-developed P6-EnergyControlSystem 3.1 grid controller, clearing it for use in wind, solar and hybrid plants.
Battery storage additions in Germany hit a new record in the first half of 2026, with IWR warning that the market is outpacing federal energy policy.
The European Commission wants to double electricity's share of the EU energy mix to 46% by 2040, but the wind industry warns that a parallel reform of the Emissions Trading System could slow the shift.
Finland's economy ministry has issued its competent authority statement on the EIA programme for Kuopion Energia's planned small modular reactor plant for district heating in Kuopio, asking the developer to further specify the assessment.
Lithuania's outgoing deputy energy minister Airidas Daukšas has reviewed his term, citing a 55% renewables target for 2030, more than 193,000 prosumers and installed capacity heading towards 7 GW by year-end.
France and Germany awarded more than 3 GW in heavily oversubscribed onshore wind auctions at falling prices, but WindEurope warned that limited auction visibility is pushing developers to rush projects to market.
Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal visited Finland on 16–17 July 2026, with clean energy and sustainability among the central themes and two cooperation agreements signed ahead of the EU–India trade deal.
German aircraft-detection lighting specialist Lanthan Safe Sky has relaunched as NOLITE, bringing its wind-turbine night-marking technology, operations and services together under one brand.
GEOMAR researchers are studying seagrass carbon sinks and phytoplankton across three Baltic legs aboard Team Malizia's converted research sailing vessel.
Innovate UK combines a £10m competition, a £5m Wind Innovation Hub and the £12m first phase of the LSIC centre, with Vestas as launch partner.
Saitec has installed shell-filled habitat elements and an oyster, mussel and algae aquaculture pilot on its DemoSATH floating wind demonstrator.
The Norwegian cluster's 18–20 August visit takes suppliers to the Świnoujście Offshore Terminal and other West Pomeranian sites, with B2B meetings included.
Szczecin and Świnoujście are developing into major offshore wind bases, with ORLEN Neptun's installation terminal already booked at 70% of capacity.
Wood Thilsted and COP Frontier have launched Neretek, whose BC90 foundation targets the 60–90 m depth gap between fixed-bottom and floating offshore wind.
Capcora and suena energy have published a whitepaper analysing how offtake strategies, risk allocation and financing structures determine whether battery storage projects can secure debt financing.
Light:Guard will fit 83 turbines across 21 NOTUS energy projects with demand-controlled night marking under a new multi-year framework agreement.
Developers brought wind projects totalling around 900 MW to the UKA Group in the first half of 2026, adding to roughly 1.5 GW the company has under construction.
Poland's first offshore wind farm has delivered its first electricity to the national grid. Baltic Power, with 54 of 76 turbines installed, is due for completion this autumn.
Baltic Power has installed 50 of its 76 Vestas 15 MW turbines. Mandatory testing and commissioning works begin in the coming weeks, ahead of completion in H2 2026.
Tion Renewables has acquired an operational 69 MWp agri-PV park in Schwarzholz, Saxony-Anhalt, from FEFA. The plant is expected to generate around 87 GWh annually.
The Nordex Group booked 3.1 GW of new orders in the second quarter of 2026, bringing first-half order intake to 4.9 GW, led by Germany, the US and Türkiye.
Danish developer Eurowind Energy has won 70 MW across three onshore wind projects in Germany's latest auction and plans to expand its team.
Registration has opened for RE-Source 2026, the tenth edition of Europe's corporate renewable energy sourcing event, taking place in Amsterdam on 4-5 November.
European Energy has won permits for six German wind projects totalling around 145 MW, spread across Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt.
Vattenfall has installed the first monopile for Nordlicht I in the German North Sea, starting offshore construction of what it calls Germany's largest offshore wind project.
The IEA, IMF, World Bank and WTO have jointly warned that the Middle East war is straining global energy supplies, with record oil-stock draws through the Strait of Hormuz and higher fuel and fertiliser prices.
The Nordex Group has secured orders totalling around 700 MW from German developer UKA, covering 100 Delta4000-platform turbines for projects across several federal states.
wpd has won 156.9 MW in Germany's latest BNetzA onshore wind auction, a heavily oversubscribed round in which average award prices fell to a record low of 5.06 ct/kWh.