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2023 Clean Energy Landscape: Global surge and regional disparities in solar, wind, and electric vehicles, balanced by challenges in nuclear and energy efficiency
Global clean energy deployment scaled new heights in 2023, with annual additions of solar PV and wind growing 85% and 60% respectively. Capacity additions for these two technologies reached almost 540 GW, with China accounting for the majority of both. Clean [...]
Will the IT sector power the Renewable Energy industry with workers?
The renewable energy sector is facing a looming crisis due to a shortage of workers, a fact we've been aware of for some time. The BalticWind.EU newsroom inbox is filled with impressive announcements of new job openings created by the latest investments. [...]
Transparency International EU: Alarming corporate lobbying in climate safeguard negotiations
Current developments have alarmingly revealed the extent of corporate lobbying in negotiations on safeguarding the climate. Take COP28, where a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists made an appearance, or the upcoming COP29 being hosted by Azerbaijan, a major oil and [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Lasma Livzeniece, Executive Director at Latvian Wind Energy Association
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Ditlev Engel, CEO, Energy Systems, DNV
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Ralph Savage, Director, Global Development & Stakeholder Relations, Global Wind Organisation (GWO)
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Kacper Kostrzewa, BC-Wind Project Director, Ocean Winds
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Kadri Simson, European Commissioner for Energy
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Roland Roesch, Director, IRENA Innovation and Technology Center, IRENA
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Kamil Kobyliński, Head of Offshore Wind Poland in TotalEnergies
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Daniel Badman, CEO, Swedish Wind Energy Association (SWEA)
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Otto Swanljung, Director, Wind Energy, Metsähallitus
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
Ocean Winds supports the implementation of innovative unmanned robots to operate on BC-Wind offshore wind farm
The project to implement the operation of unmanned autonomous vessels to service offshore wind farms, prepared by Gdańsk-based Blue Armada Robotics, won the European ELBE Challenge competition for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe. The Call for Financial Support to [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Dr. Dennis Kruse, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of WAB
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
Navigating Europe’s offshore wind boom in 2023 with new factories
Things are looking up again for offshore wind in Europe. 2023 saw a record 4.2 GW of new offshore wind farms come online, up 40% on 2022. And €30bn of new investments were confirmed – covering 9 GW that’ll be built [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Giles Dickson, CEO of WindEurope
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
“Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook”: Morten Helveg Petersen, Member of the European Parliament
BalticWind.EU asked industry leaders and key policy-makers for their assessment of what has been achieved in the past year and what the forecasts are for 2024. In today’s interview of the „Baltic Sea Offshore Wind – 2024 Outlook” series, we present [...]
Report: Competitive industry and stable supply chain – 10 steps for a strong wind sector in Poland
The wind industry will bring reliable and stable profits to the Polish economy in the coming decades, while increasing the involvement of domestic companies and industry. The data shows that by 2040, the onshore and offshore wind sectors can guarantee nearly [...]
TGS | 4C Offshore report: Record year in global offshore wind
TGS | 4C Offshore has declared 2023 as a record year for offshore wind investments, marking a significant rebound from the previous year's slump. The latest Global Market Overview by TGS - 4C Offshore anticipates a potential continuation of this trend [...]
WindEurope: Getting auction design right will make or break the Net Zero Industry Act
The EU Member States agreed on their position for the upcoming negotiations with the European Parliament on the Net Zero Industry Act. The European Parliament adopted its own position in November. The Council and Parliament diverge on critical points as they [...]
Piotrowicz, Iberdrola: innovation, maintaining project profitability, standardisation and scalability are key for developing offshore potential
We spoke to Łukasz Piotrowicz, Offshore Development Manager at Iberdrola, about the main challenges in the market, how to meet growing demand within supply chains, the potential of the Baltic market, as well as key technologies that will drive innovation in [...]
Daniel Badman, Svensk Vindenergi, on the profitability of wind energy
Wind power has by far the lowest production cost of the types of power that can be expanded quickly and on a large scale. Only wind power can be expanded as quickly as needed to meet the electricity demand until the [...]
WindEurope: European wind turbine manufacturing is indispensable for energy security and competitive electricity prices
WindEurope informed about their surprise with the latest statement of BASF CEO Martin Brudermüller on the quality of European wind turbines. Other wind farm developers in Europe are happy with the European turbines they have installed and would like to be [...]
WWF&BCG: Building a Nature-Positive Energy Transformation
A first-of-its kind report from WWF and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) shows the potential risks and benefits of a rapid shift to renewable energy for people and nature. A major transformation of our global energy system is crucial to ensuring [...]
RE-Source 2023 marks 7.8 GW PPA record but industry indicates bottlenecks to reach EU net zero objectives
2023 has set new records in the PPA market with 7.8 GW of renewable capacity secured year to date. By the end of Q3, companies in the ICT sector (2 GW), heavy industry (1.8 GW) and telecoms (650 MW) were responsible [...]