Stiftung Offshore Windenergie

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• 15. July 2021

  No expansion of offshore wind energy in the first half of 2021 - retain skilled workers and enable even capacity utilisation now

  Berlin/Bremerhaven/Frankfurt, 15 July 2021 – For the first time in more than ten years, there will be no expansion of offshore wind energy in Germany this year. This expansion gap is not the expression of a lack of interest on the part of investors or a lack of strength on the part of the industry, but a consequence of political decisions, the effects of which are now becoming visible for the offshore wind industry in Germany. This development can only be counteracted by raising the expansion targets for offshore wind energy, retaining skilled workers, and concretising expansion plans for green hydrogen.

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• 11. February 2021

  German Foundation OFFSHORE WINDENERGY launches in cooperation with the WORLD FORUM OFFSHORE WIND (WFO) export promotion project titled "OFFSHORE HOCH 3" FOR GERMAN COMPANIES IN JAPAN, TAIWAN AND THE USA, FUNDED BY THE BMWI

  The German Foundation OFFSHORE WINDENERGY and its cooperation partner the World Forum offshore Wind (WFO) launched a project at the beginning of January funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) to provide export support for German companies in the offshore wind energy sector.

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• 4. February 2021

  OLAF LIES: "GREEN HYDROGEN AND OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY ARE CENTRAL PILLARS OF THE ENERGY TRANSITION AND CREATE INDUSTRIAL JOBS IN LOWER SAXONY" - ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY OF LOWER SAXONY SUPPORTS NEW PROJECT OF THE FOUNDATION OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY

  Today, the German Foundation OFFSHORE WINDENERGY received the funding decision from the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection for the project "Green Hydrogen and Offshore Wind Energy" at a virtual handover. In the future, this project will be dedicated to the implementation of the North German and National Hydrogen Strategy and thus promote the development of a domestic hydrogen economy.

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• 21. January 2021

  Offshore wind industry defines fields of action for policy makers: Impetus for the offshore wind value chain urgently needed

  The German Foundation for OFFSHORE WINDENERGY and its partners BWE, BWO, VDMA and WAB e.V. presented the annual status report of offshore wind energy development in Germany today. According to the report, no new installations of offshore wind energy took place in the second half of 2020. In total, 1,501 turbines with a capacity of 7,770 MW deliver clean, safe and cost-effective electricity from the sea to the mainland. In the eyes of the industry, it is important to enable the tendering of potentially usable areas  as soon as possible to enable earlier construction activities and thus preserve existing innovation potential, employment and the value chain in Germany. Furthermore, the report emphasized that the positive market dynamics invoked by the EU strategy for renewable offshore energy need to be utilized in order to trigger an investment push.

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• 23. November 2020

  Industry Conference WindEnergy Hamburg 2020 Goes Online

  The industry conference WindEnergy Hamburg, which takes place every two years, will begin  on December 1st online this year due to Covid-19 restrictions. The exposition will enable an exchange of the global onshore- and offshore wind industry until December 4th via an innovative streaming tool, WindTV.

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• 30. September 2020

  Eight Governments pledge to kickstart offshore wind in the Baltic Sea

  At an Offshore Wind Conference, hosted by the Polish Wind Energy Association (PSEW), high-level representatives of eight Baltic Sea countries and the European Commission signed a joint declaration to accelerate the build-out of new offshore wind capacities in the Baltic Sea.

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• 21. September 2020

  EU research project PROMOTioN presents project results in online final conference

  The EU-funded Horizon2020 project ‘Progress on Meshed HVDC Offshore Transmission Networks’ (PROMOTioN) presented its research results at a final online conference today. The event, titled ‘North Sea Grid for the European Green Deal: How to unlock Europe's Offshore Wind potential - a deployment plan for a meshed HVDC grid’, marks the culmination of over four years of practice-oriented research and full-scale technology demonstrations on integrated offshore HVDC transmission grids by 34 international project partners who represent the whole industry value chain. 

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• 16. September 2020

  Promotion final conference on September 21 (Online event)

  The EU-funded Horizon2020 project ‘Progress on Meshed HVDC Offshore Transmission Networks’ (PROMOTioN) will present its research & demonstration results and recommendations at a final online event on September 21st, 2020. Keynote speakers inclue Catharina Sikow-Magny (Director of Internal Energy Market of the European Commission) and Andreas Feicht (State Secretary of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy). Videos from the technical and non-technical breakout sessions regarding detailed, conclusive findings are now available online. A last live Q&A session on the topic 'Offshore Grid Planning' will take place on September 18th at 10 AM CET. Registration for the Final Conference remains open until the event begins.

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• 19. August 2020

  Online final event: EU research project PROMOTioN presents final results on September 21 / Break Out Sessions starting from August 24

  The EU-funded Horizon2020 project ‘Progress on Meshed HVDC Offshore Transmission Networks’ (PROMOTioN) will present its research & demonstration results and recommendations at a final online event on September 21, 2020. Technical and non-technical Break-out Sessions on conclusive detailed findings will take the weeks before the online final event from 24 August – 18 September 2020. Each Breakout Session will be dedicated to a certain theme and consist of pre-recorded presentations that can be accessed online as well as a live Q&A session.

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• 17. July 2020

  Despite expansion gap - offshore wind energy industry in Germany with positive prospects

  As forecast at the beginning of the year, only 32 offshore wind turbines with a capacity of 219 MW were connected to the German grid in the first half of 2020. This figure corresponds to around 11 percent of the installed capacity of 2 GW that the domestic value chain implemented in 2015.

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