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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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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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