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Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment granted EUR 30 milion for project in Tahkoluoto
Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy was granted EUR 30 000 000 for an offshore wind power investment in Tahkoluoto, Pori. The investment project would involve two offshore wind turbines located in deeper waters than the offshore wind turbines previously built in Finnish waters. [...]
PWEA: Offshore wind power could meet as much as 57% of Poland’s total electricity demand, and local content could reach 65%
Poland's offshore potential is up to 33GW of clean, green energy Electricity from the first Polish wind farm in the Baltic Sea will flow as early as 2026. There has not yet been such a dynamically developing renewable energy technology in Poland, or [...]
Vestas unveils circularity solution to end landfill for turbine blades
Vestas is presenting a new solution that renders epoxy-based turbine blades as circular, without the need for changing the design or composition of blade material. Combining newly discovered chemical technology developed within the CETEC initiative, and partnerships with Olin and Stena [...]
Another locations from Phase II of Polish Offshore Wind for PGE Baltica 5 and 9
The Minister of Infrastructure announced today that, in the adjudication procedure for two, the qualifying minimums were achieved – in order of the points received respectively area 60.E.4: 1. Elektrownia Wiatrowa Baltica 5 2. EDF Renewable Offshore Polska I 3. Cremona [...]
Baltic Power will start the main works for the construction of the farm in 2024
Paweł Wróbel, BalticWind.EU: Offshore wind energy is becoming increasingly important in Poland's energy transition. What is your role within the PKN Group in the context of the companies you manage, i.e. Orlen Neptun and Baltic Power? What is the role of [...]
BalticSeaH2 – Southern Finland’s hydrogen valley development project is progressing as planned
The BalticSeaH2 hydrogen valley project will develop the first significant cross-border hydrogen valley in Europe. The goal is to create an integrated hydrogen economy in the Southern Finland and Estonian region, which enables the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from various [...]
Baltic Power has selected the main contractor for its offshore wind farm service base
Baltic Power has selected the main contractor for the Orlen Group and Northland Power offshore wind farm service base. Its construction will start later this year and will end in 2025. As of 2026, the base will provide service of 76 [...]
Offshore wind energy is not a sprint, but a marathon
Key challenges for offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea in 2023 were the topic of a webinar hosted by BalticWind.EU. Offshore industry experts from the Baltic countries of our region discussed what actions should be taken next year, summed up [...]
Mette Cramer Buch, DEA: We’ve done a lot of investor dialogue in order to understand the concerns of the industry
Paweł Wróbel, BalticWind.EU: What is the history of location allocation for farm investors in Denmark? How does it currently look like for new sites? Mette Cramer Buch, Chief Advisor, Centre for Global Cooperation of the Danish Energy Agency: Historically, de-risking has [...]
MEP Morten Helveg Petersen: Denmark has yet to harvest the economic fruits of its visionary wind policy
On 1. December 2021, the first tendering procedure for offshore wind energy in Denmark without state aid was completed. It was widely celebrated in Denmark as it marked a milestone in Danish offshore wind policy - 30 years after Denmark constructed [...]
CLIMATE CLASSIC POLAND GDAŃSK 2023: a rally for the climate like a peloton, everyone fights for our common goal
The Climate Classic Poland 2023 rally, which aims to raise awareness of the dangers of climate change and motivate participants to take action to reduce their carbon footprint, is starting in Gdańsk on the 28th of May. We talked about the [...]
Ole Toft, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to Poland: There must be a strong political commitment to drive change and development
Paweł Wróbel, BalticWind.EU: What are the elements of the Danish formula for offshore wind energy success? Ole Toft, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to Poland: Denmark has a long experience with the development of offshore wind. Many mistakes have been made [...]
Denmark puts offshore ambitions at risk as it suspends processing of projects under the Open Door scheme
Most new offshore wind farms in Denmark are established after a tendering procedure, however, the Open Door procedure is also applicable. In the Open Door procedure, a project developer takes the initiative to establish an offshore wind farm of a self-selected [...]
Port of Tallinn and Utilitas Wind to cooperate on the development of offshore wind farms
Port of Tallinn and Utilitas Wind have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of accelerating the development of offshore wind energy in Estonia and the Baltic States. Cooperation in the development, construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms will [...]
OX2 and the Bank of Åland plan a Mega Green Port project in Åland
OX2 and the Bank of Åland’s fund management subsidiary Ålandsbanken Fondbolag, which are developing the Noatun North and Noatun South offshore wind power projects near Finland’s Åland archipelago in the Baltic Sea, have initiated a feasibility study for the planning and [...]
Metsähallitus to lease water area to Tahkoluoto Extension offshore wind farm
Metsähallitus and Suomen Hyötytuuli have signed an access right contract by which Metsähallitus leases the public water area off the coast of Pori Tahkoluoto to Suomen Hyötytuuli for wind power production. The agreement is the first long-running access right contract for [...]
Development of RES education – key to exploiting wind potential in the Baltic Sea
Europe wants wind power capacity to increase from the current 190 GW to 510 GW by 2030. This means a large increase in the number of investments to be made in the near future. Consequently, the importance of education and labour [...]
WindEurope: Investments in wind energy are down – Europe must get market design and green industrial policy right
Investments in wind energy in Europe fell in 2022. Orders for new wind turbines were down 47% on 2021. There was not a single investment in an offshore wind farm. The problem is inflation, with costs rising at a higher rate [...]
German Federal Network Agency launches tenders in order to achieve 30 GW offshore wind energy by 2030
The Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) put out to tender four areas in the North Sea and Baltic Sea with a total capacity of 7,000 MW for offshore wind turbines that have not been centrally pre-screened. "The tenders are an important step [...]
Baltic Power with first permit for onshore construction section
Baltic Power wind farm has obtained the first of the required construction permits for the onshore part. This is the first such decision issued for offshore wind power projects in Poland, ORLEN Group CEO Daniel Obajtek announced on social media. The [...]
Green light for OX2’s Galatea-Galene offshore wind farm
The County Administrative Board of Halland has announced that the Galatea-Galene offshore wind farm can be granted permission to be built under the Swedish Economic Zone Act. The wind farm can start construction as early as 2026 without state subsidies. The [...]
OX2 to develop 1,400 MW offshore wind farm outside the coast of Finland
OX2 has initiated the development of the offshore wind farm Tyrsky in the Gulf of Bothnia in the Finnish economic zone. The project that is estimated to have a total installed capacity of 1,400 MW and will be included in OX2’s [...]
This week in Baltic Offshore Wind in 5 minutes – Episode 50
Episode 50 of our weekly podcast, summarising the most important news of the week, is ready to listen. You can listen to the new episode of "This week in Baltic Offshore Wind in 5 minutes" on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, [...]
EU 2023 Call for Cross-Border RES, including offshore wind projects is open
Offshore wind projects may receive support from 2023 Call for Cross-Border RES (CB RES) projects opened by the European Union. So far two offshore wind projects in the Baltic Sea benefit from a newly established EU programme under Connecting Europe Facility whose [...]
Another location from Phase II for PGE Baltica 1
The Ministry of Infrastructure announced on 25 January 2023 the results of the determination procedure for the location permit for another area from Phase II of the Polish offshore. The decision concerns area 60.E.3 located on the Central Shoal of the [...]
