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• 25. May 2020

  WindEurope: Renewable hydrogen is key to unlocking the complete decarbonisation of European industries

  WindEurope has partnered with seven leading industry companies as well as SolarPower Wurope to launch "Choose Renewable Hydrogen", a joint initiative highlighting the crucial role of renewables to ensure economic recovery and effective climate policy in the European Union.

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• 6. May 2020

  WindEurope calls on Germany to advance climate and energy plans

  WindEurope has published a call to action addressed to the German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Peter Altmaier. In the letter, the wind industry association calls on the minister to implement a National Energy and Climate Plan for 2030 before the beginning of the German presidency of the European Council in July.

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• 20. April 2020

  Offshore Wind Energy Foundation demands secure refinancing of offshore wind projects

  In view of the current discussions on the future refinancing of offshore wind energy projects, the Offshore Wind Energy Foundation calls for the creation of framework conditions for the secure refinancing of future offshore wind projects.

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• 16. April 2020

  GWEC and GWO: Global offshore wind industry will require over 77,000 trained on-site workers by 2024 to power growth in emerging markets

  The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Global Wind Organisation (GWO) have published a new report that highlights the need for over 77,000 trained on-site workers to deliver forecast installations in six key emerging markets for offshore wind between 2020-2024.

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• 6. April 2020

  Technology maturity of HVDC circuit breakers proven by successful full-scale high-power demonstration

  A full-scale prototype of the ABB hybrid HVDC circuit breaker was successfully tested on the 27th of February 2020 in the independent KEMA Laboratories as part of the PROMOTioN HVDC technology demonstration programme. The EU-funded PROMOTioN project aims to tackle technical, regulatory, financial and legal challenges to the implementation of meshed HVDC offshore transmission networks.

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• 3. April 2020

  innogy paves the way for its third Offshore wind farm off the German coast

  Energy company innogy SE paves the way for its third German offshore project Kaskasi: The company took the final investment decision (FID) for the construction of the 342 megawatt (MW) wind farm, which is located 35 kilometres north of the island of Heligoland.

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• 1. April 2020

  Hollandse Kust Noord Tender Set to Open

  On Tuesday, April 2, the Dutch government opened the tender to develop the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind park located 18.5 kilometres off the west coast of the Netherlands. The two-site farm will have a capacity of up to 760 Megawatt.

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• 19. March 2020

  Record offshore wind capacity installed worldwide in 2019

  New data released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) shows that global installed offshore wind energy capacity grew by 6.1 GW over the course of 2019 - more than ever before in a single year. Total offshore capacity now stands at 29 GW globally.

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• 14. March 2020

  Eight winners of Scottish Government funded floating wind competition announced

  The Floating Wind Technology Acceleration Competition has announced eight technologies which will now receive funding and development support from the Scottish Government. The competition has been implemented by climate organisation The Carbon Trust.

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• 20. February 2020

  WFO published Global Offshore Wind Report

  The World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO) today published its annual Global Offshore Wind Report. According to the report, 5,194 megawatts of offshore capacity were added worldwide in 2019 - more than ever before in a single year.

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