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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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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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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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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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23. January 2020
10 years of successful offshore wind expansion in Germany - Getting increased expansion volumes off the ground quickly
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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).
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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.
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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.
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17. July 2019
Expansion of offshore wind energy on schedule in the first half of 2019 - urgent demand to increase the expansion targets

On behalf of the German wind industry associations, Deutsche Wind-Guard today published the expansion figures for offshore wind energy in the first half of 2019 for Germany. With an increase of 252 MW and 42 turbines, the industry is still on track. A total of 1,351 offshore wind turbines with 6,658 MW are currently connected to the grid. In the first half of 2019, renewable energies accounted for 47.6 percent of power generation1; com-pared to the first six months of the previous year, offshore wind recorded an increase of around 30 percent.
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28. February 2019
Joint workshop of the EU research projects MIGRATE and PROMOTioN in Berlin focuses on grid stability in the future energy system

The two energy research projects MIGRATE and PROMOTioN, funded within the framework of the EU research programme HORIZON 2020, are holding their first joint workshop today in Berlin under the title "Technical challenges and recommendations for the future European power grid".
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