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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 [...]
Europe has the tech. So why isn’t it a renewable superpower yet?
By Luke Haywood, Head of Climate and Energy at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), a EUSEW partner organisation For a long time, the shift to renewable energy was seen as a virtuous but arduous task – good for the climate [...]
Sea-to-land horizontal directional drilling for Baltica 2 completed
The sea-to-land directional drilling campaign for the Baltica 2 project—a joint venture between PGE and Ørsted—has been completed. Thanks to the use of advanced HDD technology, it will be possible to lay export cables under the shoreline without trenching and connect [...]
Statement by President von der Leyen at the joint press conference with President Costa following the meeting of the European Council of March 2026
Good evening, let me start with the Middle East. The situation in the region is extremely serious. It is causing great instability, suffering, and growing risks far beyond the region itself. This is why we need de-escalation and maximum restraint, the [...]
Construction of Poland’s first offshore power station, built entirely in Poland, enters next phase
CRIST Offshore kicked off the production phase of the offshore power station for the BC-Wind project with a symbolic steel-cutting ceremony. With this, the project has entered its next phase of implementation. The first steel-cutting ceremony is a significant milestone in [...]
County Administrative Board positive toward parts of Eolus’s offshore project Västvind
The County Administrative Board has recommended that the government grant a permit for part of the offshore wind farm Västvind, located in the sea outside Gothenburg. The County Administrative Board is handling the part of the project that is located the [...]
Extending the life of Nordic wind assets – The fund SEB Nordic Energy through Locus Energy scales it’s repowering strategy
A growing share of wind turbines installed in Sweden and Finland during the early phases of Nordic wind development are now approaching the end of their 20–25-year design life. At the same time, much of the underlying infrastructure — including permits, [...]
All transition pieces connecting the foundations to the turbines and offshore substations have been installed at the Baltic Power offshore wind farm
At the Baltic Power offshore wind farm (a joint project of the ORLEN Group and Northland Power), all 78 transition pieces connecting the foundations to the wind turbines and offshore substations have been installed. At the same time, the installation of [...]
Even more local content in the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm
Even more local content in the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, a joint project between PGE Polska Grupa Energetycznaand Ørsted. The Siemens Gamesa turbines will be mounted on towers built in Poland by Baltic Towers. The largest batch of over 100 [...]
Windar Renovables to build second wind turbine tower manufacturing facility at CTPark Legnica
Windar Renovables has announced the development of its second production facility in Poland with the construction of a new onshore wind turbine tower manufacturing plant at CTPark Legnica. The project includes the lease of nearly 29,000 sqm of industrial and warehouse [...]
First generation at Thor offshore wind farm
First Thor turbine fed electricity into the grid for the first time Delivery of Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm progressing as planned with turbine installation underway Once fully operational in 2027, Thor will be able to power the equivalent of more than one [...]