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Rostock to build offshore converter platform in EUR 2.5 billion boost for German supply chain
Grid operator 50Hertz will have an offshore converter platform built at the NEPTUN shipyard in Rostock, in contracts worth up to EUR 2.5 billion that could create more than 500 jobs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
German Bundesrat backs offshore wind reform as BWO renews call for two-sided CfDs
Germany's Bundesrat has adopted a resolution backing offshore wind reform, taking up BWO proposals for an indexed two-sided CfD auction design, cross-border cooperation and a route to return non-viable awarded sites.
wpd brings its first Japanese onshore wind farm online under corporate PPA
wpd has started commercial operation of Higashi Izu Furusato, its first onshore wind farm in Japan, a 7.48 MW project supplying a corporate buyer in Tokyo under a power purchase agreement.
4:energy marks five years and moves into wind with 46 MW of new mandates
O&M specialist 4:energy has marked five years by taking on two wind farms totalling 46 MW in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, crossing 500 MW under management across more than 100 special-purpose vehicles.
Why health scares about wind turbines stick — and what actually counters them
Experts told a Warsaw debate that wind-turbine health scares work by sowing doubt, and that trusted local voices — not technical papers — are what counter them.
Iberdrola: residents won’t listen to the facts on wind farms until they hear the benefits
Iberdrola's Agnieszka Pakula told a Warsaw debate that residents only engage with the facts on wind farms once they hear about concrete local benefits.
The Grajewo playbook: how a Polish mayor turned wind farms into tangible local wins
Grajewo mayor Grzegorz Gorski told a Warsaw debate that 19 turbines bring his municipality PLN 3.2m a year, and that visible local benefits beat fake news.
Over 400 steel structures bound for Baltica 2 as foundation works advance
More than 400 additional steel structures for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm are on their way to the installation port at Rønne, with over 75% supplied by Polish manufacturers.
From 70,000 fake publications to attacks on staff: the real cost of wind-energy disinformation in Poland
Figures presented in Warsaw show nearly 70,000 disinformation publications on energy since 2022 and a PSEW study in which one in four wind firms reported physical violence.
Operators study Baltic Sea Hydrogen Collector to link regional offshore wind to a hydrogen market
Gasgrid Finland, Nordion Energi, OX2 and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners will study an offshore hydrogen pipeline linking Finland, Sweden and Germany by 2030 to turn Baltic offshore wind into a hydrogen market.
Roll Group adopts Spinergie data platform to track offshore wind logistics
Heavy-transport specialist Roll Group will use Spinergie's vessel-tracking Supply Chain module to map offshore wind logistics and spot new opportunities as the sector scales.
Repowered Scheid wind farm opened in the Eifel with citizen participation
MLK Gruppe and the eegon cooperative have opened the repowered Scheid wind farm; the first two of four Nordex N163 turbines lift capacity from 4 to 14 MW, with 27.2 MW once complete.
German wind body warns planned energy law changes could trigger crisis worse than 2017
BWE president Bärbel Heidebroek says strong permitting numbers mask a looming bottleneck: auction volumes and a flawed CfD design could stall Germany's wind boom.
Russian disinformation against wind power is a national-security threat, Polish experts warn
Officials and analysts told a Warsaw press conference that disinformation against wind power is a funded Russian operation, with a record 2026 propaganda budget and energy named as a deliberate target.
Onshore wind could cut Polish power bills, but barriers must go, PSEW 2026 panel says
Experts at PSEW 2026 said onshore wind is among Poland's cheapest power sources and could cut energy bills, but warned that grid limits, permitting and public opposition still hold it back.
Poles back renewables but overestimate offshore wind’s cost, Ørsted survey finds
An Ørsted survey presented at PSEW 2026 found strong Polish support for renewables but widespread misperceptions about the cost and efficiency of offshore wind.
WindEurope warns draft EU rules could weaken community benefits from wind farms
On Global Wind Day, WindEurope urged EU policymakers to protect flexible community participation models, warning that draft EU rules could weaken the local benefits wind farms deliver.
Facts versus myths: experts map Poland’s fight against wind-energy disinformation
A Warsaw press conference brought together ministers, analysts, scientists, an investor and a mayor to confront wind-energy myths and the funded disinformation behind them.
‘A slow drip of poison’: Minister Zielinska calls wind-energy disinformation a state-security threat
Opening a Warsaw conference, Minister Urszula Zielinska called wind-energy disinformation 'a slow drip of poison' and a deliberate, funded operation that is a matter of state security.
Global Wind Day 2026 puts community benefits in focus as WindEurope warns against rigid EU rules
On Global Wind Day, WindEurope spotlights how communities share in wind farm revenues — and warns that draft EU participation rules could undermine the very models that build local support.
PGE Baltica picks consortium to design onshore grid connection for Baltica 9+
PGE Baltica has signed a contract with a consortium led by PROJMORS ASE Group to design the onshore grid connection for the roughly 1.3 GW Baltica 9+ offshore wind project, with power routed to the Krzemienica substation.
ORLEN and Szczecin-Świnoujście ports begin analyses on expanding Poland’s first offshore installation terminal
ORLEN Neptun and the Szczecin-Świnoujście ports authority have signed a letter of intent to study expanding the Świnoujście Offshore Terminal, Poland's first offshore wind installation terminal, one year after it opened.
Gull tracking shapes turbine plans at Finland’s Ebba offshore wind project
Metsähallitus has used GPS tracking of the globally threatened Baltic gull to map feeding areas and flight paths around its planned Ebba offshore wind farm in Finland.
RWE clears Nordseecluster A for turbine installation after DNV certification
DNV has certified the third BSH milestone for RWE's 660 MW Nordseecluster A, clearing the German North Sea project for turbine installation.
ORLEN Neptun plans expansion of Świnoujście offshore terminal
ORLEN Neptun and the Szczecin–Świnoujście ports authority have signed a letter of intent to expand Poland's first offshore wind installation terminal after a strong first year.
