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Ruslanas Sklepovičius: The offshore wind development is a great opportunity for the Baltic Sea region
Green Genius has ambitions to get involved in the offshore wind sector. BalticWind.EU asked Green Genius CEO – Ruslanas Sklepovičius – about the details in a special interview for BalticWind.EU Quarterly Country Report Lithuania Q1 2022. […]
Artur Ambrożewicz: Polish offshore wind sector needs technicians
That is the training mission of Vulcan Training & Consultancy. The representatives of the training company focus primarily on the safety of offshore workers. – We teach how to work safely at height, how to give advanced first aid, what to [...]
Rokas Masiulis: Litgrid as a transmission system operator has a very clear task in offshore wind development
Litgrid as the transmission system operator in Lithuania plays one of the key roles in the development of the energy system, including renewable energy sources. Lithuania has ambitions for the development of offshore wind energy and [...]
Kacper Kostrzewa, OW: The meeting on 9th of June is meant to be a conversation and answer specific questions from suppliers
Ocean Winds - one of the world's largest offshore developers - will hold a Suppliers Day for potential suppliers of services and components for offshore wind farms in Poland on 9 June 2022 in a hybrid format. It is an opportunity [...]
Giles Dickson: Negative bidding in wind auctions creates additional costs
A number of governments are now tempted to apply ‘negative bidding’ in their wind energy auctions, to make companies pay them for the right to develop a new wind farm – WindEurope explains in the position [...]
Simon Redfern: Poland is very much high up the list of countries where SSE Renewables see opportunities
Simon Redfern is a senior executive with over 35 years’ experience on a range of large, high-value infrastructure projects in the offshore wind, telecoms and offshore oil & gas sectors. For the last 20 years he has focused on the offshore [...]
Andrzej Konarowski: Offshore wind is the next step in Acciona Energia’s development
Today on BalticWind.EU we talk to Andrzej Konarowski, Managing Director, Acciona Energia Poland. Acciona Energia, in cooperation with SSE Renewables, has the ambition to develop offshore wind in Poland. We ask about the details. […]
Karina Würtz: Baltic Sea Offshore Wind Declaration must now be followed by visible action
Another international conference of the wind energy industry in Bilbao has started today, and BalticWind.EU has become a media partner of the event organized by WindEurope. We are convinced that actors from the Baltic Sea Region [...]
Pertti Tapio: Metsähallitus’ goal is to complete the selection of an offshore wind partner in 2022
Finnish state-owned company Metsähallitus is currently working on the Korsnäs offshore wind farm project, which will be built in 2028 at the earliest. We asked Metsähallitus wind energy project leader Pertti Tapio about the progress. In the first phase of [...]
Pomerania and Bremen are discussing the potential of regional cooperation in offshore wind
In March, a virtual meeting was held between representatives of the Pomeranian Platform for the Development of Offshore Wind Energy, the city of Bremen, and the German WAB cluster based in Bremerhaven. Participants agreed that development [...]
Prof. Wolfgang Lukas: Business administration and management skills are increasingly coming to the fore
Offshore Wind Energy Centre was established at the Maritime University of Gdynia. Breakthrough management studies for offshore wind sector staff will be launched in Poland in March. The Polish university is carrying them out in cooperation with Hochschule Bremerhaven and Business [...]
Gdynia will provide education of key personnel for the development of wind farms in the Baltic Sea
A groundbreaking Offshore Wind Energy Center has been established at Gdynia Maritime University. This is where the future workforce that will build the offshore wind sector in the Baltic Sea will be educated. In March, the first groundbreaking managerial studies are [...]
Energy sector’s responsibility in the face of war in Ukraine
Last week, when Russia brutally attacked Ukraine triggering a war just across the border of the European Union, is a moment in history when the development of the offshore wind industry must also be viewed through the prism of these tragic [...]
Ocean Winds: We have submitted 9 applications for new offshore wind farm sites in Poland
The Baltic Sea is becoming increasingly popular among foreign investors. The Baltic Sea is seen as a body of water offering opportunities for the development of offshore wind farms based on floating wind platforms. We ask Ocean Winds about their plans [...]
Ignitis Group: The offshore wind as a huge opportunity
The Baltic Sea will be one of the European regions supporting the energy transformation of the European Union. Particular potential is seen in offshore wind energy, and Ignitis Group is interested in its development. We asked the company about specific plans. [...]
Algis Latakas: We hope the Klaipėda Seaport will become an extremely important resource platform for offshore wind
The Baltic Sea needs port investments. By the end of the decade, 12.5 percent of the European offshore wind fleet could be located in this region, but it needs prepared service and installation ports. The port of Klaipeda has great aspirations [...]
Rytis Kėvelaitis: Offshore wind will be one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Lithuania’s history
Lithuania has high hopes for the development of offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea. The importance of this project is described to us by Rytis Kėvelaitis, Founder & CEO at Energy Unlimited. The interview was published in our quarterly report [...]
Jerzy Buzek: Offshore wind energy needs “all hands on deck”
The Parliament voted a few days ago on the report on the EU strategy for offshore renewable energy, prepared and adopted by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. The document was finally adopted. – Offshore wind energy needs “all hands [...]
Morten Petersen: The offshore renewables strategy will help to fulfill large CO2 reductions
During the February 2022 plenary session, Parliament voted on an own-initiative report on the EU offshore renewable energy strategy, as prepared and adopted by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. This constitutes Parliament’s response to [...]
Urtė Daškevičiūtė: The most important is the clarity and transparency in the offshore tendering processes
While some developers in the wind energy sector have a lot of experience with onshore wind parks, they lack experience with offshore wind parks. For this reason, local companies cooperate with foreign companies in order to [...]
Anna Łukaszewska-Trzeciakowska: We want to be a leader of offshore wind development in the Baltic Sea
PKN Orlen has big aspirations to develop offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea, not only in Poland. -The potential of the Baltic states’ markets is over 20 GW and, of course, if there are such [...]
Support scheme and concept for the 2nd offshore wind project – the Lithuanian Ministry of Energy targets for 2022
Lithuania, as one of the Baltic countries, wants to use the opportunities of offshore wind energy development. The first offshore wind farm will be built by 2030, while renewables auction for the first offshore wind farm is planned for 2023. [...]
GWO: The offshore wind industry can expect rapid expansion of global standard training
Offshore wind is moving fast and the workforce behind it is developing rapidly. Global Wind Organisation is at the heart of workforce development with a mission to ensure an injury-free working environment in wind. We spoke [...]
Marco Nix: Offshore hubs and hybrid wind projects could lead the way towards an increasingly growing meshed offshore grid
Electricity grid operators play a key role in offshore wind development. The future of wind turbines in European seas depends on the work and development of the grid. German operator 50Hertz knows this very well. Marco [...]
Do WWII weapons dumped in the Baltic Sea pose a threat to wind energy?
Author: Rafał Miętkiewicz, PhD, assistant professor at the Faculty of Command and Maritime Operations, Polish Naval Academy of the Heroes of Westerplatte in Gdynia, expert of the Ignacy Łukasiewicz Institute for Energy Policy Establishment of the offshore wind energy (OWE) sector in [...]
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