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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 [...]
Oversubscribed and unbuilt: what Germany’s onshore wind auctions tell the Baltic markets
Germany's onshore wind auctions are bid 2.6 times over and clearing at record lows. The winners share locked-in turbine supply and secured grid connections — and the harder constraint now sits between the award and the first foundation.
Fourteen transformers reach Baltica 2 site after six-month heavy transport from Türkiye
COLI Group has completed a six-month transport of 14 power transformers from GE Vernova's Turkish factory to the onshore site for Poland's Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, using three vessels, two ports and temporary structures over bridges too weak to carry the load.
Europe on course for record wind year with 8.8 GW installed in first half of 2026
Europe installed 8.8 GW of new wind capacity in the first half of 2026, 30% more than a year earlier. WindEurope now expects 24 GW for the full year, but warns that falling permitting volumes outside Germany could stall the ramp-up.
Onshore wind costs 8.2 cents. Getting permission still costs years
German data puts new onshore wind at 8.2 cents per kWh against gas backup at three to four times that. Auctions are oversubscribed and capital is queueing. The bottleneck has moved entirely to permitting.
Subsea Cable Assets opens carousel rental with 4,000 and 6,000-tonne systems
Subsea Cable Assets has begun renting out cable carousels, starting with 4,000 and 6,000-tonne systems already contracted to a European client.
Port of Klaipėda designs 800-tonne green methanol bunkering vessel
The Klaipėda State Seaport Authority has completed a concept design for an 800-tonne green methanol bunkering vessel, alongside a study of Baltic demand for alternative marine fuels.
From the seabed to the airspace: what actually protects Baltic energy infrastructure
Mine clearance, anti-submarine patrols, air defence and a defence-tech accelerator each protect Baltic energy assets in part. None of them was designed to, and the financing question is still open.
Why onshore wind’s next megawatts are coming from sites that already exist
Repowering and life extension are becoming a mainstream route to new onshore wind capacity in Germany and the Nordics, as permitting and grid constraints slow greenfield development.
Klaipėda port moves its largest-ever expansion into construction
Site preparation has started in the southern part of the Port of Klaipėda, with breakwater construction to follow this autumn under a EUR 24.5 million contract with Tilsta.
Batteries are becoming the other half of the wind build-out in Germany and the Baltics
Grid-scale storage is scaling alongside wind in Germany and the Baltics. A look at what Kyon Energy's three-state start and Latvenergo's record investment year say about where flexibility is heading.