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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 [...]
Bałtyk 2 and 3, step by step: how Polenergia and Equinor’s offshore build went from rock on the seabed to first foundations
A tracker of the Bałtyk 2 and 3 offshore wind build: rock placement, first foundations, substation topsides, the onshore grid link and the milestones still ahead before first power in 2027.
Estonia and Latvia’s offshore wind is still on the drawing board: what ELWIND and Liivi have done, and what comes next
Estonia and Latvia have no offshore turbines yet, but the ELWIND and Liivi projects now have design contracts, a seal survey and a year of wind data. Here is where they stand and what comes next.
Skyborn closes €2.1bn financing for 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm in German Baltic
Skyborn Renewables and the EIB announced financial close on Gennaker, a 976.5 MW offshore wind farm off Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, with €2.1 billion of debt from 16 banks and the EIB. Commercial operation is targeted for the end of 2028.
How Poland’s offshore wind year began: Baltic Power, Baltica 2 and Baltic East in one sequence
A roundup of the early-2026 milestones across Poland's three offshore wind projects, from Baltic Power's fishermen compensation to Baltica 2's seabed works and Baltic East's auction price, with a look at what comes next.
wiwi consult wins 80 MW in German solar tender and shifts to wind-solar-storage hybrid projects
The Mainz developer won support for all three of its bids in the July PV tender, is building nine wind projects totalling 180 MW by 2027, and will plan every future project with battery storage.
From national to regional: how 2026 rewired cooperation around the North Sea and the Baltic
Four early-2026 forums, from the Hamburg North Sea Summit to a 47-region declaration in Stockholm, converged on cross-border offshore planning. A roundup of what they decided and what the Baltic can borrow.
600 industry representatives sail to German North Sea wind farms; Husum Wind and WAB commit to repeat excursion in 2028
Around 600 wind-sector representatives toured German North Sea wind farms aboard the FRS Halunder Jet on 31 August; Husum Wind and WAB now plan a repeat excursion in 2028.
Klaipėda deploys sensor buoy to guide ships through GPS jamming and improve port forecasts
A sensor buoy four nautical miles off Klaipėda now streams sea and GPS-interference data to shore, serving as a fixed reference for ships when satellite navigation fails.
Poland’s PLN 214 billion onshore wind plan, revisited: the assumptions behind the number
The industry strategy values Poland's onshore wind market at up to PLN 214 billion by 2040, but the figure rests on 1.5 to 2 GW of annual additions, a turbine supply chain still 75 per cent foreign, and a grid that already curtails 5 to 10 per cent of renewable output.
FGW publishes blueprint for component-based grid certification of wind turbines and storage
Germany's FGW e.V. has released the final document of its working group on component-based unit certification, proposing early validation of grid behaviour at converter and component level to cut recertification costs for turbines and storage.