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Nearly 3,000 pupils in Equinor and Polenergia’s educational project in Poland
Nearly 3,000 pupils from 11 primary schools took part in an educational project run by Equinor and Polenergia in the Słupsk region. The aim of the campaign is to spread knowledge among the youngest about offshore wind energy and its benefits [...]
Equinor seeks innovators for offshore wind sustainability challenge
Equinor, a global energy leader, is calling on innovators to join a groundbreaking initiative to revolutionize the end-of-life phase of floating offshore wind substructures. This challenge, part of Equinor's NOW Accelerator program, seeks startups and scale-ups with cutting-edge ideas on reuse, [...]
Vestas secures a 72 MW order in Germany
Vestas has received a 72 MW order from Denker & Wulf AG for the wind energy project Holtsee in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Vestas will deliver ten V162-7.2 MW wind turbines, and the order includes supply, delivery, and commissioning of the turbines. "This [...]
The first offshore wind farm in the Baltics will be called Curonian Nord
Ignitis Renewables is developing the first offshore wind farm in the Baltics, which will be called Curonian Nord. This project is particularly important to the Lithuanian energy sector and is named in the honour of Curonians, a tribe that used to [...]
FRS Windcat orders CTV vessels to service Polish wind farms
FRS Windcat Polska Sp. z o.o. has ordered two CTVs (crew transfer vessels) from the ALU International Ltd. shipyard in Gdansk, with an option for additional vessels. These vessels will support the development of Polish offshore wind farms. FRS Windcat Poland, [...]
Sweden’s Energimyndigheten cannot exclude wind power in the survey of potential energy production
Energimyndigheten has been tasked with mapping areas for fossil-free energy production and distribution. Svensk Vindenergi is critical of the fact that wind power is not mentioned in the agency's mandate. Energimyndigheten has been tasked with mapping areas with potential for fossil-free [...]
Vestas completes installation of 15 MW offshore wind turbine
Vestas has successfully installed its flagship V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine at the Port of Thyborøn, marking a significant milestone in the development of offshore wind technology. This installation comes only three months after the port placed an order for the [...]
ENMARO and Pondera Consult tighten cooperation to drive Polish offshore wind projects
Poland’s ENMARO and the Netherlands’ Pondera Consult have agreed on closer cooperation. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing to jointly source, define, and target potential offshore wind project opportunities in Poland, leveraging their combined products and services as a consortium. [...]
This was a week of the PWEA Conference 2024 in Baltic Sea Offshore Wind [Episode 121]
Episode 121 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, [...]
![© Jörge Schneemann [2024] Scanning Lidar device temporarily installed on the nacelle of a wind turbine at RWE’s offshore wind farm Amrumbank West as part of the C²-Wakes project.](https://balticwind.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Zrzut-ekranu-2024-06-7-o-00.59.50-320x202.png)
Optimized Yield in Offshore Wind Farms: Measurement Campaign in C²-Wakes Project Gets Underway
The Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, together with its project partners RWE, ForWind (University of Oldenburg – Institute of Physics), and Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, is investigating how to optimize the total energy yield of offshore wind farms in the "C²-Wakes [...]
