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Smulders and NEPTUN WERFT join forces to build offshore converter platforms in Rostock
Smulders is joining forces with the MEYER Group, which includes NEPTUN WERFT in Warnemünde, to build offshore converter platforms at the Warnemünde site. To this end, they have the intention to jointly found the companies NEPTUN SMULDERS Offshore Renewables and NEPTUN [...]
Parkwind and partners to complete installation of final towers and turbines at Arcadis Ost 1 despite stormy weather
Parkwind and partners defy autumn storms to complete installation of final towers and turbines at Arcadis Ost 1. The final three turbines of Parkwind’s 27-turbine Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm were installed during the stormy autumn season in less than [...]
21st WINDFORCE Conference: Achieving climate targets, creating jobs, strengthening industry
The 21st WINDFORCE Baltic Sea Conference will take place from November 20-21 in Warnemünde under the motto "Offshore wind: from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. Implementing climate protection targets, creating jobs, strengthening industry". This year's conference partner is the [...]
Hansa PowerBridge between Germany and Sweden: planning approval granted for land and territorial sea sections
Hansa PowerBridge is a cross-border high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system, intended in future to connect the power grids of Germany and Sweden. This will improve security of electricity supply in both countries and allow closer integration of renewable energies. It will [...]
Iberdrola and Masdar close their 1.6 billion euros alliance to develop offshore wind in the Baltic Sea
Iberdrola has signed a strategic agreement with Masdar, a major renewable energy group based in Abu Dhabi, to co-invest in the 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm, located in the German Baltic Sea. Following confirmation that all the necessary regulatory [...]
BEMIP Electricity, Offshore and Hydrogen on the draft list of Projects of Common Interest
European Union is working on new list of Projects of Common Interest (PCI) and Projects of Mutual Interest (PMI) in the areas of electricity, offshore, hydrogen, smart grids and cross-border carbon dioxide networks. According to draft list –it identifies, among others, [...]
Jumbo transports and installs Baltic Eagle Transition Pieces for Van Oord
Jumbo Offshore has been contracted by Van Oord for the transportation and installation of transition pieces for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea. Operations on the project are to commence in October 2023. Due to the [...]
50Hertz signs contracts with NKT and Prysmian Group for at least 3.500 km of submarine and land cable
50Hertz signed project and framework contracts with two leading European manufacturers of high-performance cables for the production and installation of submarine and land cables covering a total length of 3,500 km, with an option for an additional 2,700 km. The contracts [...]
Greater transparency: transmission system operators relaunch joint information platform ‘netztransparenz.de’
The four German transmission system operators 50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT and TransnetBW adapted their joint information platform ‘netztransparenz.de’. From now on, it offers a clear insight into the daily workings of the electricity market, complemented with information about German and European legal [...]
Online game brings green hydrogen research to life
Leuna, September 20, 2023. The production of green hydrogen at sea researched in the H2Mare Flagship Project can now be experienced in the form of a browser game. In »Offshore - the H2Mare Game«, players can build their own offshore wind [...]
NKT secures framework agreement and record order for five power cable projects supporting the German Energiewende
NKT has been awarded a combination of five on- and offshore power cable projects embedded in a long-term framework agreement by the German TSO 50Hertz. With a combined value of approx. EUR 3.5bn, the order is a new company record for [...]
Iberdrola installs all fifty monopiles of the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm
Iberdrola has successfully installed all fifty monopiles for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm together with its partner Van Oord. The next step in the ongoing construction phase now involves the installation of the transition pieces. These were manufactured by the [...]
Denmark and Germany together on wind and hydrogen
The strong Danish-German cooperation within wind and hydrogen was thoroughly discussed at the German Danish Business Forum in Hamburg on 6 September. With the decision to establish the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link, a new business forum saw the light of day in [...]
Public participation for Ostwind 3 onshore route section launched
The Ministry of Economics of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is accepting position statements up to and including 16/10/2023. The object of the public participation that is hereby announced is the third approval section, i.e. the onshore route section. The subject at hand [...]
50Hertz awards contracts for cables to connect the Baltic Sea wind farm Gennaker to the transmission grid
Following an international tender, the electricity transmission system operator 50Hertz has awarded two major contracts for submarine and land cables in the Baltic Sea to the suppliers Hellenic Cables and Jiangsu Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTT). The company's supervisory board, which [...]
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