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Virginijus Sinkevičius: Eutrophication remains a major environmental threat to the Baltic Sea and affects the entire ecosystem
Paweł Wróbel: The Nature Restoration Law will set restoration targets and obligations across a broad range of ecosystems at land and sea in the EU. How is this to work in practice for marine areas? Virginijus Sinkevičius, Commissioner for Environment, [...]
WindEurope: Negative bidding in German offshore wind law threatens supply chain
The German Parliament has adopted a new Offshore Wind Law (WindSeeG). It makes important changes to the design of Germany’s offshore wind auctions. It established two different types of auctions, one of which involves negative bidding with no caps on the [...]
Vos Prodect to be Cable Hang-Off supplier for Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm
Vos Prodect continues to support the major offshore wind farm projects in 2022. The company will be the Cable Hang-Off supplier for the TKF cable project Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm. […]
Cloudberry partners with Hafslund for the Stenkalles offshore wind project
Cloudberry Clean Energy has entered into a binding term-sheet for the sale of 50% of shares in Cloudberry Offshore Wind AS, to form a 50/50 joint venture with Hafslund AS. Cloudberry Offshore Wind AS indirectly owns the 100 MW shallow-water wind [...]
Port of Tallinn and Sunly establish cooperation in offshore wind area
Port of Tallinn and Sunly, an investor in the renewable energy sector, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to accelerate offshore wind development in the Baltic Sea countries. Sunly has plans to develop offshore wind farms in Estonia, Latvia and [...]
PKN ORLEN and Klaipėdos Nafta establish cooperation in the field of offshore wind energy
KN (Klaipėdos Nafta AB), the operator of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, and the companies of the largest Polish oil group ORLEN, ORLEN Neptun I and Energa Wytwarzanie, signed a letter of intent on the possibility of cooperation in [...]
wpd starts implementation of the Gennaker offshore wind project
With the conditional order of 103 Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbines with up to 9 MW capacity each and the start of the main soil investigation at each individual turbine location, wpd has started the realization of the Gennaker offshore wind [...]
50Hertz: Starting shot for Ostwind 3 approval procedure
The application documents for the section in the EEZ relate both to the construction and operation of the approximately 24-kilometre-long submarine cable and to 50Hertz’s own transformer platform at the Windanker wind farm. The planning approval authority – the BSH – [...]
European Energy to start deliver green hydrogen to Port Esbjerg
European Energy is going to start delivering green hydrogen to Port Esbjerg starting from the first half of 2023 from its production facilities in Esbjerg. The supply of green hydrogen to Port Esbjerg will be produced at European Energy’s wind farm [...]
Lithuania invites to consult EIA solutions for offshore wind farms
Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy is inviting for public consultations on alternative solutions for the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of offshore wind farms to be built in the Baltic Sea. […]
Tomasz Lisiecki: The offshore wind industry is at its beginning and we are at the start of the training road
For the offshore wind industry, besides dedicated study programs and technical schools, the training offer is also crucial. One of the training centres in Poland uses VR (virtual reality) technologies. Tomasz Lisiecki, Chairman of the Board of the New CompetencIes Centre [...]
Waldemar Tarczynski: The University of Szczecin will educate RES market specialists in Poland
The University of Szczecin attentively follows the changing energy market in Poland, in particular the growing role of the RES sector, which plays a key role in the energy transition. Prof. Dr. Waldemar Tarczynski, Rector of the University of Szczecin, answers [...]
Małgorzata Sikora: Koszalin University of Technology provides a versatile offer of studies for the offshore wind sector
Koszalin University of Technology is one of the Polish universities that wants to educate future specialists of the offshore wind energy industry. In an interview with BalticWind.EU Małgorzata Sikora, PhD, Eng., Professor of the Koszalin University of Technology, talks about the [...]
Piotr Stepnowski: University of Gdansk is committed to the development of the offshore wind energy sector
The University of Gdansk (UG) is the largest university in the Pomeranian region. It employs 1810 research and teaching staff, who conduct education and research at 11 faculties for 24,000 students and PhD students. – The University of Gdansk treats the [...]
Giles Dickson: Biodiversity and renewables go hand in hand
The European Commission has published its Nature Protection Package. The package implements the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy, part of the European Green Deal. It’s also supporting the REPowerEU Action Plan, the measures to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels and [...]
Tomas Milašauskas: We hope to see more regulatory development to accelerate renewables projects
2022 is a landmark year for the offshore wind sector in Lithuania. At the end of March, the Lithuanian Parliament gave a green light for the regulations necessary for the emergence of first wind farms in the Baltic Sea. The regulations [...]
Jakub Budzyński: Effective cooperation between business and young specialists is the key to offshore wind development
On BalticWind.EU we spoke to Jakub Budzyński, Vice-President of the Polish Offshore Wind Energy Society (PTMEW). We ask about Polish staff in the offshore wind sector and the state of their preparation. How many specialists are employed in the Polish offshore [...]
Wójcik: To overcome challenges in Lithuania is necessary to think about offshore wind as a regional market
Lithuania is mobilizing for the development of offshore wind. Mariusz Wójcik, Director Project Development & Advisory for Offshore Wind, Poland and Baltics in Ramboll Polska, in his comment for BalticWind.EU points out the challenges Lithuania is facing, the opportunities arising from [...]
BalticWind.EU Country Report POLAND Q1 2022
BalticWind.EU Country Report POLAND / Q1 2022 Dear Readers, It is my pleasure to present to you the next in a series of reports summarising the Polish offshore wind energy market. In the passing [...]
Save the date! DNV Technical Seminar on Electrical Systems for Offshore Wind
Electrical interconnection systems are crucial for efficient energy production from offshore wind farms which is why DNV chose the technical approach as the key focus of the Technical Seminar on Electrical Systems for Offshore Wind organised in Gdynia on the 20th [...]
BalticWind.EU Country Report LITHUANIA Q1 2022
BalticWind.EU Country Report LITHUANIA / Q1 2022 Dear Readers, It is my pleasure to present to you the next in a series of quarterly reports summarising the Lithuanian offshore wind energy market. In the [...]
Simon Redfern: Poland is very much high up the list of countries where SSE Renewables see opportunities
Simon Redfern is a senior executive with over 35 years’ experience on a range of large, high-value infrastructure projects in the offshore wind, telecoms and offshore oil & gas sectors. For the last 20 years he has focused on the offshore [...]
Top 20 Leaders of the Offshore Wind Industry in the Baltic Sea announcement
Today, at Wind Europe Annual Event 2022 in Bilbao, BalticWind.EU is proud to announce the first Baltic Offshore Wind Awards 2021 winners. The list contains 20 names that have been selected based on an extensive list of nominations submitted by [...]
Need for greater involvement of the Baltic Sea in talks on offshore wind
After the North Sea, the Baltic Sea will be the next driving market for the offshore wind sector in Europe. As BalticWind.EU we observe that the wind industry from the Baltic countries is not sufficiently involved [...]
WindEurope Bilbao 2022 – what will the wind energy industry talk about?
One of the most important events of the wind energy sector – WindEurope Bilbao 2022 – starts today. BalticWind.EU is a regional partner for discussions about the future of wind turbines in Europe, especially in the [...]
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