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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 [...]
Rostock to build offshore converter platform in EUR 2.5 billion boost for German supply chain
Grid operator 50Hertz will have an offshore converter platform built at the NEPTUN shipyard in Rostock, in contracts worth up to EUR 2.5 billion that could create more than 500 jobs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
German Bundesrat backs offshore wind reform as BWO renews call for two-sided CfDs
Germany's Bundesrat has adopted a resolution backing offshore wind reform, taking up BWO proposals for an indexed two-sided CfD auction design, cross-border cooperation and a route to return non-viable awarded sites.
wpd brings its first Japanese onshore wind farm online under corporate PPA
wpd has started commercial operation of Higashi Izu Furusato, its first onshore wind farm in Japan, a 7.48 MW project supplying a corporate buyer in Tokyo under a power purchase agreement.
4:energy marks five years and moves into wind with 46 MW of new mandates
O&M specialist 4:energy has marked five years by taking on two wind farms totalling 46 MW in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, crossing 500 MW under management across more than 100 special-purpose vehicles.
WindEurope to hold turbine end-of-life seminar in Bilbao in November
WindEurope's EoLIS seminar on turbine end-of-life, recycling and circular design runs on 24-25 November 2026 in Bilbao, with more than 300 industry participants expected.
Why health scares about wind turbines stick — and what actually counters them
Experts told a Warsaw debate that wind-turbine health scares work by sowing doubt, and that trusted local voices — not technical papers — are what counter them.
Iberdrola: residents won’t listen to the facts on wind farms until they hear the benefits
Iberdrola's Agnieszka Pakula told a Warsaw debate that residents only engage with the facts on wind farms once they hear about concrete local benefits.
The Grajewo playbook: how a Polish mayor turned wind farms into tangible local wins
Grajewo mayor Grzegorz Gorski told a Warsaw debate that 19 turbines bring his municipality PLN 3.2m a year, and that visible local benefits beat fake news.
Over 400 steel structures bound for Baltica 2 as foundation works advance
More than 400 additional steel structures for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm are on their way to the installation port at Rønne, with over 75% supplied by Polish manufacturers.
From 70,000 fake publications to attacks on staff: the real cost of wind-energy disinformation in Poland
Figures presented in Warsaw show nearly 70,000 disinformation publications on energy since 2022 and a PSEW study in which one in four wind firms reported physical violence.