Stiftung Offshore Windenergie

News

• 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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• 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.

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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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