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Baltic Power has selected the main contractor for its offshore wind farm service base
Baltic Power has selected the main contractor for the Orlen Group and Northland Power offshore wind farm service base. Its construction will start later this year and will end in 2025. As of 2026, the base will provide service of 76 [...]
Offshore wind energy is not a sprint, but a marathon
Key challenges for offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea in 2023 were the topic of a webinar hosted by BalticWind.EU. Offshore industry experts from the Baltic countries of our region discussed what actions should be taken next year, summed up [...]
Mette Cramer Buch, DEA: We’ve done a lot of investor dialogue in order to understand the concerns of the industry
Paweł Wróbel, BalticWind.EU: What is the history of location allocation for farm investors in Denmark? How does it currently look like for new sites? Mette Cramer Buch, Chief Advisor, Centre for Global Cooperation of the Danish Energy Agency: Historically, de-risking has [...]
MEP Morten Helveg Petersen: Denmark has yet to harvest the economic fruits of its visionary wind policy
On 1. December 2021, the first tendering procedure for offshore wind energy in Denmark without state aid was completed. It was widely celebrated in Denmark as it marked a milestone in Danish offshore wind policy - 30 years after Denmark constructed [...]
CLIMATE CLASSIC POLAND GDAŃSK 2023: a rally for the climate like a peloton, everyone fights for our common goal
The Climate Classic Poland 2023 rally, which aims to raise awareness of the dangers of climate change and motivate participants to take action to reduce their carbon footprint, is starting in Gdańsk on the 28th of May. We talked about the [...]
Ole Toft, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to Poland: There must be a strong political commitment to drive change and development
Paweł Wróbel, BalticWind.EU: What are the elements of the Danish formula for offshore wind energy success? Ole Toft, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to Poland: Denmark has a long experience with the development of offshore wind. Many mistakes have been made [...]
Denmark puts offshore ambitions at risk as it suspends processing of projects under the Open Door scheme
Most new offshore wind farms in Denmark are established after a tendering procedure, however, the Open Door procedure is also applicable. In the Open Door procedure, a project developer takes the initiative to establish an offshore wind farm of a self-selected [...]
Port of Tallinn and Utilitas Wind to cooperate on the development of offshore wind farms
Port of Tallinn and Utilitas Wind have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of accelerating the development of offshore wind energy in Estonia and the Baltic States. Cooperation in the development, construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms will [...]
Ireneusz Zyska, Deputy Minister for Climate and Environment: The biggest challenge for the development of the sector is cost efficiency and profitability of projects
Pawel Wróbel. BalticWind.EU: More than a year ago, a sectoral agreement was signed for the development of offshore wind energy in Poland. What has been achieved since then? Ireneusz Zyska, Deputy Minister for Climate and Environment, Government Plenipotentiary for RES Development: [...]
OX2 and the Bank of Åland plan a Mega Green Port project in Åland
OX2 and the Bank of Åland’s fund management subsidiary Ålandsbanken Fondbolag, which are developing the Noatun North and Noatun South offshore wind power projects near Finland’s Åland archipelago in the Baltic Sea, have initiated a feasibility study for the planning and [...]
