German Onshore Wind Auction Under-Subscribed - Again

The latest German onshore wind auction brought another setback as just 476 MW worth of wind farm projects won capacity while a total of 700 MW was on offer.

Belgium Still Has a Long Way to Go

Belgian energy and climate plan proposes renewables target of 18.3% by 2030

European Offshore Wind Capacity Grew by 18% in 2018

Last year, 2.6 gigawatts of new offshore wind energy capacity were installed in Europe, as the European Wind Energy Association WindEurope announced today.

ENTSO-E (the association of European Transmission System Operators) has published a new report providing data and analysis in order to guide clear decision-making in Europe’s energy transition, supporting the further electrification of Europe’s energy mix Major ENTSO-E report

EU countries discusss a proposal from the European Commission on protective measures on steel imports to the EU today. WindEurope warns that this could have drastic consequences

Second Greek Renewables Auction Brings New Lows

The average price level is even lower than in the last French and German onshore auctions.

High level political negotiations are ongoing at COP24 in Katowice, with countries struggling to reach agreement on the key elements of the Paris Agreement like the so-called ‘rulebook’ and the level of ambition to be deployed by EU Member States in the effort to combat climate change.

Almost 100 organisations led by major corporates today signalled their willingness to do more on climate action calling on European governments to make it easier to invest and directly source renewable energy. The group signed this declaration at the RE-Source 2018 event in Amsterdam.

The European Parliament today gave its final approval for a binding EU-wide renewable energy target of 32% for 2030. The Parliament cast its final vote of adoption on the Renewable Energy Directive and Governance Regulation, two key parts of Europe’s Clean Energy Package that sets the EU legal framework for renewables up to 2030.

Wind energy is set to overtake coal, nuclear and gas to become the EU’s largest power source well before 2030. This is according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) 2018 World Energy Outlook released today.

On Wednesday 7 November, WindEurope participated in the Key Wind conference in Rimini, Italy, organised by the Italian Wind Energy Association, ANEV. As the only reference wind power show in the Mediterranean basin, the Balkans and the Middle East, the event gathered high-level speakers from the Italian government, associations, businesses, banks and TSOs.

Poland marked its return to wind energy today with the announcement of ambitious plans to develop 8 GW of offshore wind by 2035. It came as Poland opened a 1 GW onshore wind auction on 5 November.

Romania should harness onshore wind to meet growing demand for electricity instead of investing in conventional power – this was the message WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson told the annual meeting of the Romanian Wind Energy Association in Bucharest on Tuesday.

Last week WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson participated to the 18th Inter-Parliamentary Meeting on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency organised by the European Forum for Renewable Energy (EUFORES) in Vienna.

On 17 October WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson spoke at the France Energie Eolienne (FEE) conference in Paris and delivered a clear message: if France doesn’t get its house in order soon the costs of unrealised potential will be significant.

A report published yesterday by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that that urgent and unprecedented measures are required to keep global temperature rises to below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Alpha-I and Power2U hacked their way to a €5000 prize each on the second edition on the hugely successful wind energy hackathon, held under a deal between industry advocacy body WindEurope and European sustainable energy innovation outfit InnoEnergy. The prizes were awarded during the WindEurope Conference at the Global Wind Summit2018, held from 25 till 28 September at the Hamburg Messe.

Investments of €0.5-€1bn in new port infrastructure could help the offshore wind sector to cut costs by up to 5.3%. This is according to figures released by the WindEurope Ports Platform at the Global Wind Summit in Hamburg.

Wind energy in Europe is on track for solid growth over the next five years. But policy uncertainty and lack of ambition in many countries mean clouds on the horizon. This is according to WindEurope’s ‘Wind energy outlook in Europe’ report that is released today.

WindEurope presses the case for offshore wind in Poland at Krynica Economic Forum

Poland’s premier Forum for business and policy leaders addressed the prospects for the development of offshore wind in the Baltic.

Exploring the prospects for offshore wind in Norway

WindEurope was at the Offshore Northern Seas (ONS 2018) event in Stavanger last week to promote the future prospects of offshore wind.

With record temperatures being reached across the continent this summer, power plants have needed the intervention of renewables to compensate for serious shutdowns and curtailments over the summer months.

Wind energy breaking new ground

Everywhere we look – geographically, politically, technologically and financially – wind energy is breaking new ground.

First Polish PPA is also Europe’s first automotive renewables deal

Mercedes Benz has announced Europe’s first automotive Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with a Polish wind farm. It is also the first such deal signed in Poland.

Europe added 4.5 GW of wind energy capacity in the first half of 2018, according to figures released today by WindEurope. The figure is down on the same period last year (6.1 GW) though is in line with expectations.

On 12 July, 3E organised a workshop in Istanbul entitled “Leveraging the EU offshore wind expertise in Turkey”, with the support of the Turkish Wind Energy Association and WindEurope.

Electrification is the key to decarbonising Europe’s economy, according to WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson, who was speaking yesterday at a European Commission event on long-term emissions reductions.

Alcoa signs another PPA deal in Norway

Alcoa has signed another corporate renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) deal for its aluminium manufacturing facilities in Norway.

InnoEnergy’s ‘Hack the Wind’ to return to WindEurope Conference

€20,000 hackathon returns to spark innovation and create new start-ups to solve industry challenges

Competitive prices in first Greek onshore wind auction

The Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) has awarded seven wind projects with a total capacity of 171 MW in the country’s first onshore wind auction.