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EIB activates first tranche of counter-guarantee facility
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced it will provide a €500mn counter-guarantee to Deutsche Bank aimed at boosting Europe’s wind turbine manufacturing industry. This announcement marks the first tranche activated under the EIB’s €5bn counter-guarantee scheme which constitutes the EIB’s [...]
Energy Future “Made in Europe”: Multi-Terminal Hubs as Im-portant Building Block towards Net-Zero Grid
Bayreuth, Berlin, Dortmund, Stuttgart, 15 July 2024. An important joint project for the energy transition is becoming reality. The four German transmission system operators 50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT and TransnetBW are starting an innovation partnership with industrial partners Siemens Energy, GE Vernova and [...]
German Government adopted import strategy for hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives
The Federal Cabinet adopted the import strategy for hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives on 24 July 2024. The import strategy sets out a clear and reliable framework for the urgently needed imports of hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives to Germany. It is a key component [...]
Offshore wind auctions in the Baltic Sea region: Insights from the EU RES Auctions Platform
The European Union has launched a new platform that consolidates key data on offshore wind projects in the Baltic Sea. The RES Auctions Platform is a deliverable of the EC Communication Wind Power Action Plan (COM(2023) 669 final). This platform consolidates [...]
Installation of half the Baltic Eagle offshore wind turbines completed
As reported in Iberdrola's mid-2024 financial update, 25 out of the planned 50 wind turbines for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany have now been installed. Baltic Eagle is on track to become operational by the end of 2024, [...]
Qualitas Energy wins tender, orders Nordex turbines for 39.9 MW wind farm in Germany
Qualitas Energy, a global investment, management, and project development platform focused on renewable energy, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure investment, announced that it has secured the winning tender from Federal Network Agency’s (BNetzA) for a 39.9 MW greenfield project in Dalkendorf, [...]
Germany’s wind power surge: onshore and offshore growth in 2024
The Bundesnetzagentur has released its preliminary figures on growth in renewable capacity in the first half of 2024. From January to June capacity totalling 9.3 GW was put into operation at renewable energy installations. Taking into account the closure of older [...]
Navantia Seanergies-Windar Renovables will build 21 monopiles for Windanker offshore wind farm
Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables will manufacture 21 monopiles for Iberdrola for the Windanker offshore wind farm. This is the second monopiles contract for Iberdrola and the fourth contract of this type of foundations for the Navantia-Windar alliance to date. Production [...]
Joint call of German wind industry to strengthen supply chains and ports
Six German organizations dealing wind offshore wind energy development – Bundesverband WindEnergie e.V. (BWE), Bundesverband Windenergie Offshore e.V. (BWO), OFFSHORE-WINDENERGIE Foundation,VDMA Power Systems, WAB e.V., WindEnergy Network e.V. (WEN) - released joint pressrelease to flag the need to Strengthen supply chains [...]
Ørsted successfully pilots new technology that further optimises offshore wind monopile installation
Building on existing marine life protections, Ørsted has developed a new, lower-noise installation method that could potentially revolutionise the way offshore wind foundations are installed. The groundbreaking new technology has been successfully tested in Germany, proving that this innovative approach can [...]
NeXtWind and VSB Group enters into a cooperation for a 115.2 MW wind farm in Saxony-Anhalt
NeXtWind hosted a joint owners' event to inform the owners about the cooperation between the two project developers on the Zörbig repowering project. The future pooling of joint resources and the great expertise of both companies - and not least the [...]
Grid connection for Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm starts continuous operation ahead of schedule
In the Baltic Sea, off the island of Rügen, 50Hertz has completed the last of three cable systems for the Ostwind 2 offshore grid connection project after a four-week trial run, meaning that it will start continuous operation almost three months [...]
Ramboll to design foundations for Gennaker Offshore Wind Park
Ramboll has secured the contract as foundation designer for Gennaker Offshore Wind Park – the most powerful offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. Ramboll's mandate is to develop the basic and detailed design of 63 monopile foundations that will [...]
PNE has been successful in onshore wind energy tenders for 91.5 MW
PNE Group has once again scored successes in the tender round for onshore wind turbines of the Federal Network Agency. All four wind farms submitted were awarded the contract. The wind energy projects "Lütau”, "Wulfsdorf", "Willerstedt" and "Kuhstedt III" have passed [...]
Iberdrola reaches FID for Windanker offshore project in Germany
Iberdrola has taken the final investment decision (FID) for its Windanker offshore wind farm in Germany, progressing the project into the delivery phase. Windanker is Iberdrola's third offshore wind initiative in the German Baltic Sea, following the operational 350 MW Wikinger [...]
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