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Installed capacity in offshore wind farms in Swedish waters reaches 192 MW
According to Wind Europe data, at the end of 2020, the installed capacity in offshore wind farms in Europe amounted to 25 GW. There were 5 offshore farms in operation in Sweden with a total capacity of 192 MW. The [...]
Giles Dickson CEO Wind Europe: Message to BalticWind.EU
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Morten Petersen: We need to shift up a gear in the deployment of offshore wind
The European Union has adopted an offshore wind energy development strategy. What are the biggest challenges facing this industry? Where is the place of the Baltic Sea on the offshore wind map? How does Denmark perceive this region in the [...]
Dorota Bastrikin: Marine growth and alien species monitoring on offshore underwater structures
In the planning stages of the offshore wind developments various monitoring schemes are considered during lifetime of the structures. Some, like structural monitoring are obvious. Other, like marine growth and alien species monitoring may not be so obvious but if planned and scheduled regularly could be cost-saving by allowing practical and effective management of maintenance and decommissioning processes[...]
For projects Långgrund 1 and 2 still against the wind. The Swedish Armed Forces say “no”
The investor Svea Vind Offshore plans to build two wind farms Långgrund 1 and Långgrund 1 in the waters of the Baltic Sea. Swedish media reports that the armed forces continue to refuse to approve the projects. Långgrund 1 (1,395 [...]
The Finnish Metsähallitus will build an offshore wind farm. Currently it is looking for a partner
Metsähallitus is a Finnish state-owned forestry company with the ambitious goals of developing the Korsnäs offshore wind farm, which will be located 15 km from the coast of the municipality of the same name, in the waters of the Baltic [...]
The Swedish government wants to reduce the costs of connecting offshore wind energy farms to the power grid
In February, the Swedish Ministry of Infrastructure proposed to reduce the costs of connecting offshore wind farms to the electricity grid, which are borne by electricity producers. On February 2, 2021, a proposal for regulations announced four years ago was [...]
A decade ago Germany launched the first commercial wind farm in the Baltic Sea
Ten years ago a breakthrough was made in the offshore wind energy sector in Germany - the energy group EnBW commissioned the first commercial offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. Baltic 1 is a 48.3 MW wind power plant [...]
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan for Poland includes the construction of ports for offshore wind energy sector
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (KPO) is the basis for the payment of money from the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility for projects to revitalize the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Polish project also includes support for offshore [...]
Polish LOTOS Petrobaltic wants to create ships for the construction of Polish offshore wind farms
The Polish company LOTOS Petrobaltic from Grupa LOTOS is the only Polish mining company that deals with the exploration and production of oil and gas deposits on the Polish shelf of the Baltic Sea. The company wants to join the [...]
