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Media Partnership: Reuters Events: Expanding Ports to Achieve Large-Scale Offshore Wind Deployment
European governments have pledged to deliver 160GW of offshore wind within the next decade, requiring €6.5bn of investment in port infrastructure by 2030 to meet these ambitions. In response to these announcements, ports are finding they will need to growing their business [...]
Fortum Acquires 4.4 GW of Finnish Wind Projects from ABO Energy
(Wiesbaden/Helsinki, 28 November 2025) ABO Energy has completed the sale of a 4.4-gigawatt (GW) wind energy portfolio in Finland to Fortum, a leading Finnish energy company. The transaction, which closed on November 28th, includes 29 wind power projects across the country. [...]
EnBW He Dreiht: First wind turbine on Germany’s largest offshore wind farm to date produces electricity
Karlsruhe/Hamburg. The first wind turbine on the EnBW He Dreiht offshore wind farm generated the first kilowatt-hour of electricity yesterday evening and fed it into the grid. Further turbines will gradually follow suit over the coming weeks. EnBW has so far [...]
Where do wind turbine blades go when they are decommissioned?
More and more wind turbines are reaching the end of their operational lifetime. Europe has 290 GW of wind energy. 80 GW of that will reach the end of its theoretical operational lifetime by 2030. Most will in fact continue operations. Some will [...]
Finnish Government tightens wind power regulation and slows solar power growth
The Finnish Government has today decided on the regulatory provisions on wind and solar power to be included in the new Land Use Act. The fixed 1,250-metre set-back-distance between wind turbines and houses would prevent wind power development in southern Finland [...]
German Wind Industry: 2026 Offshore Auctions Without Structural Reform
Germany’s Bundestag has adopted amendments to the Windenergie-auf-See-Gesetz (WindSeeG). While parts of the reform are welcomed by the offshore wind industry, one key decision is widely viewed as a strategic mistake: the continuation of 2.5 GW of offshore auctions in 2026 [...]
PGE Baltica has begun recruitment for its base in Ustka
Wind turbine technicians, electrical engineers, dispatchers – these are just some of the positions for which PGE Baltica will be recruiting. The leader in the offshore wind business in Poland will assemble a team for its operations and service base in [...]
EU agrees to permanently stop Russian gas imports and phase out Russian oil
The European Union will effectively and permanently stop the import of Russian gas and move towards the phaseout of Russian oil under the provisional political agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council today. This historic decision will end the EU's [...]
KFB Technologies launches AI-based platform for industrial emissions management
Wrocław, 5 December 2025 – KFB Technologies, a European leader in vibroacoustics and pro-environmental solutions for industry, has launched a pioneering service enabling comprehensive monitoring and management of emissions in the areas of noise, vibrations, air, water and soil quality. This [...]
Baltic Industrial Group completes its first steel structures for the Baltica 2 foundation package
Baltic Industrial Group (Grupa Przemysłowa Baltic GPB) has manufactured the first anode cages and a boat landing for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm – the largest offshore project currently under construction in Poland, being developed jointly by Ørsted and PGE. [...]
A renewables-based energy system will save Europe trillions
Renewables are the cheapest form of power generation. But this doesn’t tell the full story. What about the costs of grids, storage, and back-up? WindEurope’s latest study done in cooperation with Hitachi Energy shows that even when accounting for the grids, [...]