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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 [...]
Wind jobs in numbers: 180,000 offshore roles, a Pomeranian skills push and the Lindø layoffs
From 443,000 European wind jobs and 180,000 offshore roles to Germany's inland supply chain, Pomerania's training push and Vestas' cuts at Lindø: a roundup of what the employment figures mean for the Baltic.
F2E releases wake2e 4.0 with unified sectoral turbulence method for German onshore wind planning
Hamburg consultancy F2E has released wake2e 4.0, moving its onshore site suitability software to a single revised method for sectoral effective turbulence intensities aligned with current wake models.
Blade specialists We4Ce and ADIOS Technology merge commercial operations under eProWind brand
Dutch blade specialists We4Ce and ADIOS Technology have combined commercial operations under the eProWind brand, pairing on-site root bushing repairs with electrothermal de-icing, as We4Ce hands over leadership.
Routing Energy and Vestas agree procurement partnership for smaller German onshore developers
Husum-based purchasing cooperative Routing Energy and Vestas have agreed a strategic partnership giving small and mid-sized German onshore developers access to Vestas turbines, including the EnVentus platform.
The Baltic hydrogen map: a subsea collector, a Helsinki corridor and the projects meant to turn offshore wind into molecules
An explainer on the pieces of the Baltic Sea hydrogen build-out: the Baltic Sea Hydrogen Collector study, the Helsinki producer–buyer corridor, Vetyalfa's EUR 224 million Cloudberry project and the ENGIE–European Energy plant in Denmark.
EnBW inaugurates 960 MW He Dreiht, Germany’s largest offshore wind farm, built without subsidy
EnBW, Allianz, AIP and Norges Bank Investment Management have inaugurated the 64-turbine He Dreiht wind farm in the German North Sea, the first commercial site for Vestas' 15 MW turbine and financed entirely through PPAs.
Former Deutsche Windtechnik chief Matthias Brandt to lead Saxovent Renewables from October
Matthias Brandt, CEO of Deutsche Windtechnik from 2005 to 2025, becomes managing director of the Berlin developer Saxovent Renewables as Thorsten Freise departs at the end of September.
Finland proposes priority queue for grid connections of large consumers and storage from 2027
A draft amendment to Finland's Electricity Market Act would sort connection requests from large consumers and storage into four priority groups when grid capacity is scarce. Comments close 9 October; entry into force is planned for 1 January 2027.
Qualitas Energy rebrands German platform as Navaris with 3 GW pipeline and 1 GW tender target for 2027
The Berlin-based platform takes over Qualitas Energy's German portfolio, 200 staff and a 3 GW pipeline, with a focus on onshore wind development and repowering.
windpunx adds 287 MW in 2026 and now manages 2.85 GW of wind turbines across Europe
The Berlin operations manager has grown its portfolio by 287 MW since January, with 161 MW more under contract, and now runs technical operations for over 1,200 turbines.