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This week in Baltic Offshore Wind in 5 minutes – Episode 51
Episode 51 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, [...]
Metsähallitus to lease water area to Tahkoluoto Extension offshore wind farm
Metsähallitus and Suomen Hyötytuuli have signed an access right contract by which Metsähallitus leases the public water area off the coast of Pori Tahkoluoto to Suomen Hyötytuuli for wind power production. The agreement is the first long-running access right contract for [...]
Development of RES education – key to exploiting wind potential in the Baltic Sea
Europe wants wind power capacity to increase from the current 190 GW to 510 GW by 2030. This means a large increase in the number of investments to be made in the near future. Consequently, the importance of education and labour [...]
WindEurope: Investments in wind energy are down – Europe must get market design and green industrial policy right
Investments in wind energy in Europe fell in 2022. Orders for new wind turbines were down 47% on 2021. There was not a single investment in an offshore wind farm. The problem is inflation, with costs rising at a higher rate [...]
German Federal Network Agency launches tenders in order to achieve 30 GW offshore wind energy by 2030
The Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) put out to tender four areas in the North Sea and Baltic Sea with a total capacity of 7,000 MW for offshore wind turbines that have not been centrally pre-screened. "The tenders are an important step [...]
BalticWind.EU Country Report POLAND Q4 2022
BalticWind.EU Country Report POLAND / Q4 2022 Dear Readers, I am pleased to present to you the next in a series of reports summarising the Polish offshore wind energy market. In Q4 2022, energy [...]
Baltic Power with first permit for onshore construction section
Baltic Power wind farm has obtained the first of the required construction permits for the onshore part. This is the first such decision issued for offshore wind power projects in Poland, ORLEN Group CEO Daniel Obajtek announced on social media. The [...]
Green light for OX2’s Galatea-Galene offshore wind farm
The County Administrative Board of Halland has announced that the Galatea-Galene offshore wind farm can be granted permission to be built under the Swedish Economic Zone Act. The wind farm can start construction as early as 2026 without state subsidies. The [...]
OX2 to develop 1,400 MW offshore wind farm outside the coast of Finland
OX2 has initiated the development of the offshore wind farm Tyrsky in the Gulf of Bothnia in the Finnish economic zone. The project that is estimated to have a total installed capacity of 1,400 MW and will be included in OX2’s [...]
Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2022 Summary & 2023 Outlook
Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2022 Summary & 2023 Outlook Dear readers I am pleased to present special report summarising series of interviews„Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2022 Summary & 2023 Outlook”. The year [...]
