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Negative Bidding Continues to Burden Offshore Wind Development
Germany and the Netherlands have recently issued the results of their latest offshore wind auction. They awarded a total capacity of 6.5 GW. That’s good for Europe’s energy transition. But the auction...
French Auction Results are not the new Benchmark for Floating Wind in Europe
Last month France published the results of its 250 MW floating offshore wind auction off South Brittany (AO5). The winning bid was awarded at 86 euros /MWh – a record-low for floating...
EBRD is Supporting Renewable Investments in Romania
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending over 46 million euros as part of a 93 million euros financing package to build and operate a 102 MW onshore wind...
France Commits to Big Offshore Wind Volumes
Last year France raised its offshore wind target for 2050 to 45 GW, with an intermediate target of 18 GW by 2035. On 2 May the Government published a new offshore auction...
France Announces Winners of World’s First Commercial-Scale Floating Offshore Wind Auction
France announced the winners of the 250 MW South Brittany floating offshore wind auction, the world’s first commercial-scale floating offshore wind auction. This is a major milestone for floating offshore wind technology....
Romania adopts offshore wind law
The Romanian Parliament adopts the country’s first Offshore Wind Energy Law.
This bill comes at a time when the country needs to assert its energy independence and resilience. The deployment of its offshore...
Denmark opened an offshore wind tender which could award up to 10 GW. If successful, the awarded capacity would be enough to meet all of the country’s electricity demand. It could also...
German onshore wind is going from strength to strength. In a blockbuster announcement the German Federal Network Agency Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) has just raised the onshore wind auction volumes for 2024 to almost...
EBRD and Erste Approve Financing for new Windfarm in Serbia
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), together with Erste Group Bank AG and its local bank Erste Bank a.d. Novi Sad (Erste), have approved a financing package worth 91.4 million...
Slovenia passes a regulation to boost the use of wind energy in municipalities
Slovenia has passed a regulation that stipulates the development of wind energy. The regulation aims to promote wind energy production facilities through a system of one-time financial compensations intended for municipalities, considering...
Launching the Wind Energy Initiative
The annual onshore and offshore wind event organized by WindEurope brought together over 10,000 participants and features dozens of conference sessions, hundreds of speakers and over 500 exhibitors from the field. Held...
CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES REDUCED THE GROWTH OF GLOBAL CO2 EMISSIONS
Although there was an increase in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2023, due to the large droughts that damaged hydropower plants, it was still a smaller increase compared to 2022. Smaller growth of...
Net Zero Industry Act threatens to be a backward step for Europe’s wind industry
Wind is 19 per cent of the electricity consumed in Europe. Nearly all of Europe’s wind turbines are made in Europe. Europe’s wind energy supply chain is big – over 250 factories...
According to WindEurope data, the EU built 17 GW of new wind farms in 2023: 14 GW onshore; 3 GW offshore. These numbers are slightly up on 2022 and are the most...
New Wind Charter and national wind pledges underline ambition for wind power in Europe
The EU’s ambition to advance wind energy took two further steps forward in the margins of Energy Council in Brussels, following up on two of the measures outlined in the recent European...
Top 10 things you didn’t know about wind power
10. Human civilizations have harnessed wind power for thousands of years. Early forms of windmills used wind to crush grain or pump water. Now, modern wind turbines use the wind to create electricity....
