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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 [...]
Green Genius places EUR 65 million green bonds in the Nordic market
Green Genius has placed EUR 65 million of four-year green bonds in the Nordic market to refinance construction loans. The company operates 595 MW of solar, wind and storage assets.
Finnish yard delivers SWATH personnel vessel CASTOR to German Navy at Neustadt in Holstein
Finnish shipbuilder Uudenkaupungin Työvene has delivered the SWATH vessel CASTOR to Neustadt in Holstein for the German Navy. She will carry up to 60 personnel to ships in Lübeck Bay.
Boralex acquires UK developer Wind2, adding about 350 MW of onshore wind projects
Boralex has acquired UK developer Wind2, which has brought forward around 350 MW of wind projects in Scotland, England and Wales. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Elia contracts required capacity in three Belgian CRM auctions, with batteries winning around 0.5 GW for 2028-29 and 2030-31
Belgian grid operator Elia has contracted the capacity required in three CRM auctions for 2027-2031, with offers exceeding demand and new batteries making up about 0.5 GW in two of them.
First BC-Wind monopiles arrive at Świnoujście offshore terminal
The first monopiles for Ocean Winds' 390 MW BC-Wind farm have reached the Świnoujście terminal, the first time foundations of this size have been handled at a Polish installation port.
EU energy ministers to debate network charges, winter security and post-2030 framework
Ministers meet in Luxembourg on 29 October to debate the Commission's network charges proposal, winter supply security and post-2030 energy rules, with a BEMIP meeting alongside.
EU Innovation Fund selects Stillstrom’s offshore charger for electric service vessels
Stillstrom by Maersk has won EU Innovation Fund backing to build the first commercial 8 MW offshore charger for electric service operation vessels in wind farms.
Nordex to supply nine N149/5.X turbines for 51 MW Bredenbek wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein
DenkerWulf has ordered nine Nordex N149/5.X turbines totalling 51.3 MW for the Bredenbek wind farm, with commissioning of the first unit planned for December 2027.
Finland received more than 200 comments on grid-connection priority draft, sets up working group
Finland's economy ministry received over 200 comments on its grid-connection priority draft act and will send it to Parliament in December. A working group will propose further market-law changes by March 2027.
Finland grants world’s first operating licence for spent nuclear fuel disposal facility
The Finnish Government has licensed Posiva to operate its Olkiluoto encapsulation plant and Onkalo repository until 2070, the first such licence worldwide according to the ministry.