Stiftung Offshore Windenergie

News

• 6. February 2020

  Europe installs a record 3.6 GW of offshore wind in 2019

  Europe installed 3.6 GW of new offshore wind capacity in 2019, according to statistics released today by WindEurope. This is a new record in annual installations.

  Read more
• 23. January 2020

  10 years of successful offshore wind expansion in Germany - Getting increased expansion volumes off the ground quickly

  Read more
• 4. December 2019

  North Seas Energy Cooperation Meets in Brussels - Germany to Chair the Cooperation from January

  In the run-up to the meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels on 4th December the member countries of the North Seas Energy Cooperation met to promote the further development of joint offshore wind projects.

  Read more
• 28. November 2019

  New report sets out how to exploit offshore wind potential in Baltic Sea

  WindEurope’s Baltic Taskforce has released a new report, ‘Boosting offshore wind energy in the Baltic Sea’, at the WindEurope Offshore Conference & Exhibition 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The report ist meant to facilitate the exploitation of offshore wind energy potential in the Baltic Sea.
  

  Read more
• 6. November 2019

  EU-funded PROMOTioN project delivers recommendations to overcome regulatory and financial barriers to realizing a North Sea Transmission Grid

  Countries around the North Sea need to implement a harmonized regulatory and economic framework to fully exploit the potential of a meshed offshore grid in the North Sea. This is a key conclusion of the EU-funded research project PROMOTioN (Progress on Offshore Meshed HVDC Transmission Networks).

  Read more
• 31. October 2019

  EU Commission adopts new energy projects

  Today, the European Commission adopted the fourth list of Projects of Common Interest (PCI) for a connected European energy grid, fit for the future providing clean, affordable and secure energy for Europeans.

  Read more
• 24. October 2019

  PROMOTioN project: Side Events at WindEurope Offshore conference

  The PROMOTioN project will be present at the European WindEUROPE Offshore exhibition and conference from 26 to 28 November in Copenhagen. Two side events will present important regulatory and technological interim results.

  Read more
• 9. October 2019

  "We need an alliance of government and business" - Summit on offshore wind power highlights urgent need for action

  Bremerhaven/Berlin, 9 October 2019 - At the invitation of Lower Saxony's Environment Minister Olaf Lies, the northern states, representatives of the federal government and industry met on 7 October in Hanover for a joint conference on the future of the offshore wind industry. Olaf Lies explained that there is a great need for action after the German government had set clear goals in motion with the climate package. This need for action is acute from the point of view of WAB and the Offshore Wind Energy Foundation.

  Read more
• 22. September 2019

  German OFFSHORE-WINDENERGIE Foundation: Raising the expansion targets for offshore wind energy is an important signal for climate and industrial policy - implementation must now start quickly

  The German OFFSHORE WINDENERGIE Foundation welcomes the decision of the Climate Cabinet on Friday to increase the expansion targets for offshore wind energy to 20 GW by 2030: "Increasing the expansion targets is an important signal for climate and industrial policy. In this way, additional jobs can be created while protecting the climate at the same time," said Andreas Wagner, managing director of the foundation.

  Read more
• 20. September 2019

  Offshore wind in the UK: Six offshore projects awarded - cost reduction continues

  On 20th September the British government announced the winners of the CfD contracts for offshore wind farms of the "Round 3" projects. A total of 5,466 MW were awarded to 6 projects, the average price for all projects being 40.67 GBP/MWh (4.6 cents/kWh), with grid connection in the UK being part of the scope of the project. This represents a further cost reduction of around one third compared to the last round in 2017.

  Read more

Pages