Stiftung Offshore Windenergie

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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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• 2. July 2020

  The birth of offshore wind in Poland

  On 1 July 2020 representatives of the Polish government and Polish wind energy industry signed a “Letter of Intent on cooperation for development of offshore wind power in Poland”. The letter lays out the foundation for the development of offshore wind in Poland.

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• 30. June 2020

  Baltic InteGrid project presented as exemplary Interreg project

  Within the Interreg programme, the Baltic InteGrid project was presented as an exemplary project. The OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY FOUNDATION as project partner was responsible for project communication and stakeholder management.

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• 24. June 2020

  Transmission system operator Amprion presents concept for the Europe-wide networking of offshore wind farms

  The Dortmund-based transmission system operator Amprion has presented Eurobar - a concept for the Europe-wide networking of offshore wind farms. The aim of Eurobar is to integrate offshore electricity into the European power grid in such a way that it makes an optimal contribution to the climate goals in Germany and Europe.

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• 11. June 2020

  PROMOTioN Online Event: MMC Test Bench Demonstration (WP 16)

  A core objective of the PROMOTioN project is the investigation and demonstration of operation and control of HVDC networks as well as their interaction with offshore wind power plants. While previous work packages of the project, i.e. WP2, WP3 and WP4, focused on simulation-based investigations regarding the challenges associated with the control and protection of future MTDC networks and the connected offshore wind power plants, WP16 continuous their analysis using a laboratory-scaled MTDC demonstrator in a power-hardware-in-the-loop environment.

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• 27. May 2020

  EU-funded PROMOTioN project postpones final event to 21 September

  Due to the current pandemic crisis, the Horizon 2020 project PROMOTioN (Progress on Meshed HVDC Offshore Transmission Networks) has postponed its final event, which is now going to take place on 21 September 2020 as an online event.

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