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WindEurope Report: New offshore installations are accelerating
The latest annual statistics and seven-year outlook published by WindEurope reveal significant advancements in the European wind energy sector, particularly in the offshore market and among countries bordering the Baltic Sea. The report indicates that the European Union is on track [...]
RWE set up new team to deliver Offshore Wind Fleet Servicing
RWE, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, is to establish an initial 30 person dedicated Fleet Servicing Team for the UK and Germany to support its growing international offshore wind fleet. Initially focused on five operational projects off the [...]
RWE announces winner of global Innovation Competition
Indeximate Ltd., a start-up founded in the UK in 2022, has won RWE’s second global Innovation Competition. The competition was launched with the aim to find innovative solutions in the domains of system integration, circularity and environmental protection in offshore wind [...]
Give your views on the Offshore Network Development Plans 2024
The Offshore Network Development Plans (ONDP) is a new component of the TYNDP, delivering a high-level outlook of the needs of offshore transmission infrastructure. The first edition of the ONDP has been published on 23 January 2024. The plans translate EU [...]
50Hertz receives planning approval decisions for the Ostwind 3 offshore route
Authorisations have been granted for the grid connection of the Windanker offshore wind farm in territorial waters and in the EEZ. Transmission system operator 50Hertz has received the planning approval decisions for the offshore route of the Ostwind 3 grid connection. [...]
IPCEI Hy2Infra: Advancing European Hydrogen Infrastructure for Green Transition
The Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a third Important Project of Common European Interest (‘IPCEI') to support hydrogen infrastructure. This IPCEI is expected to boost the supply of renewable hydrogen, thereby reducing dependency on natural gas and helping [...]
Maximizing Renewable Energy Efficiency: Insights from CEO of RWE Offshore Wind
Sven Utermöhlen, CEO of RWE Offshore Wind GmbH, sheds light on the imperative need to address grid congestion challenges in Germany, which resulted in the wastage of over 4,000 GWh of offshore electricity in 2022 – an amount exceeding the annual [...]
50Hertz holding company Eurogrid successfully places Green Bonds with a volume of 1,5 billion euros
Eurogrid, the parent company of transmission system operator 50Hertz, secured funds totaling 1,5 billion euros with its third and fourth Green Bond to continue the necessary grid expansion for the energy transition. It is the highest bond amount in the history [...]
German offshore wind industry: 2023 expansion overview and policy considerations
The industry associations of the German offshore wind industry and the non-profit OFFSHORE-WINDENERGIE foundation presented yesterday the expansion figures for the full year 2023. The figures prepared by the consulting company Deutsche WindGuard show that a total of 27 turbines with [...]
Network regulation to become faster and less bureaucratic
On January 18, The Bundesnetzagentur published a key elements paper on the future of cost and incentive regulation in the electricity and gas network sectors. "Network operators are successfully making considerable efforts to meet the challenges of the energy transition. We [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Dr. Dennis Kruse, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of WAB
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
Germany Approves 1.2 GW Offshore Grid-Connection Projects
Germany has granted approval for two significant offshore grid connection projects, marking a milestone in the country's renewable energy goals. The approvals, granted by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), pertain to the 300 MW Ostwind 3 project by 50Hertz [...]
Van Oord starts cable installation at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm
After Van Oord’s heavy lift installation vessel Svanen completed installation of all fifty monopiles for Iberdrola Deutschland’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm, Van Oord now continues installing transition pieces and starts cable installation. This week the inter-array cable loading onto Van [...]
Electricity Grid Operators are Strengthening Regional Cooperation in the Baltic Sea
The electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) of the nine Baltic Sea Region countries will continue to cooperate actively to ensure the reliability of the region's electricity supply, the implementation of the project to synchronise the Baltic electricity grids with continental Europe [...]
Arcadis Ost 1 wind farm has been inaugurated
The Arcadis Ost 1 wind farm off the coast of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is now supplying its full capacity to the German electricity transmission system, providing consumers with an additional 250 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy. 50Hertz built the submarine [...]
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