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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 [...]
Batteries are becoming the other half of the wind build-out in Germany and the Baltics
Grid-scale storage is scaling alongside wind in Germany and the Baltics. A look at what Kyon Energy's three-state start and Latvenergo's record investment year say about where flexibility is heading.
ESVAGT service vessel to get motion-prediction radar for safer turbine transfers
NextOcean will fit its WavePredictor motion radar to the ESVAGT NJORD, a service operations vessel working at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm, to widen safe transfer windows.
Perigus Energy takes over permitted 21 MW Olpe-Rehringhausen wind project from ABO Energy
Perigus Energy has bought the rights to the 21 MW Olpe-Rehringhausen wind farm from ABO Energy. The three-turbine project was permitted in March 2026.
Renewables support 31,000 jobs in the Hamburg metropolitan region, study finds
A study for the Renewable Energies Hamburg cluster puts the sector at around 31,000 jobs and 5.3 billion euros in gross value added, with wind the largest segment at about 13,000 jobs.
Reef panels, bat sensors and gull trackers: how offshore wind builds its biodiversity evidence
From reef panels on a floating platform to ultrasonic bat sensors in Latvian waters and GPS-tagged gulls off Finland, offshore wind's environmental surveys are becoming applied marine science.
Capcora appointed to sell SOWITEC’s 32 GW renewables project portfolio
Frankfurt advisory firm Capcora will run the sale of wind project rights totalling about 32 GW held by the insolvent SOWITEC Group, including roughly 330 MW in Germany.
Świnoujście and Szczecin: how West Pomerania became Poland’s offshore wind industrial base
With 2.6 GW installed, Poland's first dedicated offshore installation port and a 6 GW project pipeline offshore, West Pomerania has the infrastructure. Whether it becomes an industrial base or a transit hub depends on local content.
Security by design: how the Baltic’s offshore build-out became a defence question
Summit declarations, a NATO-funding proposal and a Finnish intelligence assessment now point the same way: Baltic offshore wind is being treated as critical infrastructure. Poland shows what that means on the ground.
Electric cranes make up more than 80% of MacGregor’s order intake in first half of 2026
Electric cranes accounted for more than 80% of MacGregor's crane order intake in the first half of 2026, with heavy-lift and multipurpose vessels driving most of the demand.
Electrum passes 4 GW of Polish renewables under operations and maintenance contracts
Electrum says the renewable capacity it services under O&M contracts in Poland has passed 4 GW, up from close to 3 GW less than a year ago.