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25. July 2023
Press Release: Offshore wind energy: Strengthen capacities and infrastructures along the value chain!

The trade associations of the German offshore wind industry and the German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation today presented the expansion figures for the first half of 2023. According to the figures prepared by the consulting firm Deutsche WindGuard, 24 offshore wind turbines with a capacity of 229 megawatts (MW) were newly connected to the grid in Germany in the first six months of the year. This means that a total of 1,563 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of 8,385 MW are now in operation in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea. The Arcadis Ost 1 project currently under construction continues to make progress and will in all likelihood be commissioned before the end of the year.
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16. January 2023
Press Release: Implementation of expansion targets for offshore wind energy - planning alone is not enough!
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12. July 2022
Press release: Offshore expansion is starting up again – not yet smoothly!

With a joint press release with the Federal Association of Wind Farm Operators Offshore e. V. (BWO), the German Wind Energy Association e. V. (BWE), VDMA Power Systems and WAB e. V., the Foundation OFFSHORE-WINDENERGIE published the semi-annual status report on the expansion of offshore wind energy in Germany on July 12, 2022.
- Expansion targets of at least 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, 40 GW by 2035 and 70 GW by 2045 offer long-term prospects for offshore wind energy and the supply industry
- In the first half of 2022, the first foundations were installed in the offshore wind energy projects Kaskasi and Arcadis East, but no wind turbines have been installed yet
- New Wind Energy at Sea Act threatens to further increase costs and thus jeopardise the achievement of the new expansion targets
- German offshore wind energy sector urgently needs industrial policy support and qualified personnel
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23. March 2022
“German Chapter OffshoreWind4Kids”: German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation, Competence Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, DNV and Northland Power Europe agree on cooperation with OffshoreWind4Kids

On March 23, 2022, William Beuckelaers, managing director of OffshoreWind4Kids, DNV, Northland Power Europe (NPE), the Competence Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CC4E) at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg) and the German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation signed an agreement in Hamburg on a cooperation with OffshoreWind4Kids within the framework of “German Chapter for OffshoreWind4Kids”.
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13. January 2022
30 GW offshore wind energy by 2030: Target is good - accelerate and stabilize expansion now

The German Foundation for OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY and its partners BWE, BWO, VDMA and WAB e. V. presented the annual status report of offshore wind energy development in Germany. As expecetd, no new installations of offshore wind energy took place in 2021. In total, 1,501 turbines with a capacity of 7,794 MW are connected to the grid. This is in strong contrast to the climate ambitions of the new German government. In order to achieve the new short-term target of 30 GW offshore capacity by 2030, to fully exploit Germany's innovation potential, and to maintain and expand employment and the Germany's value chain, acceleration and stabilization of expansion is now essential.
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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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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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