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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 [...]
The future of offshore wind in the Baltic Sea region. Meet us in Bilbao
One of the most important events of the wind energy sector, Wind Europe Bilbao 2022, is starting this week. BalticWind.EU will be also represented! We are very pleased to announce that BalticWind.EU has become a regional [...]
Lithuanian Seimas gives green light for an offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea
On 31 March 2022, the Seimas of Lithuania adopted laws on offshore wind energy development in the Baltic Sea. As a result, they gave a green light for the construction of the first offshore wind farm [...]
Poland’s first Executive MBA program for the offshore wind sector launched
March 25 marked the launch of the first Executive MBA program for the offshore wind energy industry in Poland, at the Gdynia Maritime University. Education of Polish offshore leaders was undertaken by the Offshore Wind Energy [...]
The data measurements are the way to go for designing and operating offshore wind structures
Ramboll together with Aalborg University have delivered a PhD project that provides greater reliability upon the design and operational phase of offshore wind farms. The results show how measurement data based on the digital twin technology [...]
Sweden’s climate policy framework must be a “plan to accelerate action”
Swedish Climate Policy Council presented the latest edition of its annual report assessing the effectiveness of the government’s climate change efforts to the Minister for Climate and the Environment, Annika Strandhäll. According to experts, there is [...]
BASREHRT – Sweden and Baltic countries hold roundtable talks on RES and hydrogen
There is no longer any doubt that wind energy in the Baltic Sea region will play a key role in the development of green hydrogen production. Recently, the BASREHRT project – the Baltic Sea Renewable Energy [...]
Latvia rejects Ørsted’s wind project, the government wants to look for ELWIND site
The Latvian government has decided to reject an application from Danish RES developer Ørsted, in cooperation with Estonian partner Eesti Energia, related to the construction and location of an offshore wind farm in Latvian waters. The [...]
Lithuania holds talks with potential wind farm developers in the Baltic Sea
Lithuania’s Energy Ministry said they have started consultations with potential wind farm developers in the Baltic Sea. The talks started in March 2022. […]
Green Genius and Polenergia join forces for the first offshore competition in Lithuania
Renewable energy company Green Genius, which develops solar, biogas, wind, and green hydrogen energy projects in 8 European countries, has signed a cooperation agreement with Poland’s largest private energy company, Polenergia. Together, they will seek to [...]
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