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Swedish Wind Energy Association Challenges Government’s Nuclear Power Focus
The Swedish Wind Energy Association (Svensk Vindenergi) has responded to the government's inquiry into "Financing and risk-sharing for investments in new nuclear power," presented by investigator Mats Dillén. The association argues that the government should diversify risks instead of focusing solely [...]
PGE Baltica announces general contractor tender for its base in Ustka
The company in charge of PGE Group's Offshore Program is looking for a general contractor to prepare a detailed design and build an operations and maintenance base (OM base) to service offshore wind farms. The new port infrastructure will breathe new [...]
Germany Awards 5,500 MW of Offshore Wind Capacity in Latest Tender, Industry Voices Concerns
The German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has announced the results of its latest offshore wind tender for pre-investigated areas, awarding a total of 5,500 MW of capacity across three sites in the North Sea. However, the tender has raised concerns within [...]
Baltic Industrial Group and CRIST shipyard to jointly build fully-equipped transformer stations for offshore wind power industry
Baltic Industrial Group and CRIST shipyard from Gdynia have begun building a consortium that will offer, among other things, modern, fully equipped transformer stations for offshore wind power (OWE). The partners also want to cooperate in other areas of the offshore [...]
Energiequelle GmbH Advances Wind Power in Saxony with New Eulitz Project
Energiequelle GmbH has commenced construction on a new wind farm in Eulitz, Saxony. This development marks a significant step in expanding wind energy capacity in eastern Germany, a region that has seen slower growth compared to northern states. The Eulitz wind [...]
Deutsche Windtechnik Combats Skills Shortage with Successful Apprenticeship Program
Deutsche Windtechnik has reported a 100% retention rate for its latest cohort of mechatronics apprentices, signaling a positive trend in addressing the wind energy sector's ongoing skills shortage. All eleven graduates from the company's Viöl training center in Schleswig-Holstein have accepted [...]
This was a week of Investing in education in Baltic Sea Offshore Wind [Episode 130]
Episode 130 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, [...]
Ørsted Entangled in Elon Musk’s X Lawsuit Over Alleged Advertising Boycott
In a surprising turn of events, Ørsted has found itself embroiled in a high-profile lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The legal action, which also targets other major companies and the World Federation of [...]
Ørsted supports development of a new faculty in Poland
During a meeting with the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin (PUM), a global leader in offshore wind energy Ørsted pledged substantive support for the creation of a new postgraduate course on Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) in the Offshore Sector. With [...]
EMBER: Wind targets are achievable but fall short of a tripling
Tripling global renewables is the single biggest action the world can take for the climate in this decade. An analysis of 2030 national wind targets shows that governments are already planning for a doubling, but fall short of a tripling. This [...]
