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63.3 million euros to support investment in Swinoujscie seaport’s capacity
Poland has received PLN 4.4 billion in funding from the EU's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for transportation projects. June 21, 2023, a meeting of the CEF Coordinating Committee was held to approve the results of the competition. Poland repeated its success [...]
Hexicon’s joint venture Freja Offshore submits application for the 2 GW Cirrus Offshore Wind Farm in Sweden
Hexicon, a project-developer and technology provider within the floating wind industry, is proud to announce that the joint venture with Mainstream Renewable Power, Freja Offshore, has submitted an application for an offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea named Cirrus off [...]
Public participation started for Ostwind 3 for the coastal sea section (12 nautical mile zone)
The Ministry of Economic Affairs of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is accepting comments up to and including 28.7.2023. The Coastal Sea section comprises the cable route starting from the connecting element of the land cable to the submarine cable section [...]
Basis laid for further international cooperation in the North and Baltic Seas
Transmission System Operators Energinet and 50Hertz welcomed on Tuesday 20th June 2023 public marking of the signing of an intergovernmental agreement relating to the German-Danish Bornholm Energy Island project. The German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, and [...]
Deutsche Windtechnik’s inspection body to use drone technology at the Butendiek offshore wind farm
At the beginning of June, the experts from Deutsche Windtechnik were among the first to carry out a large-scale offshore inspection campaign using automated drone technology. The deployment included the periodic inspection of the rotor blades at the Butendiek offshore wind [...]
Sweden – A New Energy Policy Goal
On June 20th, the Swedish parliament approved the government's proposal to amend the energy policy goal for the composition of electricity production from "100 percent renewable electricity production by 2040" to "100 percent fossil-free electricity production by 2040." However, the majority [...]
RelyOn Nutec enters Polish market
RelyOn Nutec, a global leader in safety training, invests in Poland and acquires GoRopes, a respected Tri-City training center specializing in Global Wind Organization (GWO)-compliant wind power courses, rope access training, and PPE sales, rentals and inspections. The investment in Poland [...]
Research on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: the Lithuanian area is suitable for developing an offshore wind farm
The structure of the bottom of the Baltic Sea territory with an area of more than 136 km2 is suitable for the development of an offshore wind farm, confirming the last stage of geological and geotechnical seabed research. The tender for [...]
Future of cPPA contracts from Offshore Wind Farms: Unlocking the potential
European market for corporate Power Purchase Agreements (cPPA) with offshore wind farms is experiencing substantial growth, with notable contracts being signed by large energy consumers in the years 2022 and 2023 like Google, Amazon, Mercedes Benz or Umicore. Recognizing this evolving [...]
This week in Baltic Offshore Wind in 5 minutes – Episode 70
Episode 69 of our weekly podcast, summarising the most important news of the week, is ready to listen. You can listen to the new episode of "This week in Baltic Offshore Wind in 5 minutes" on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, [...]
