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🆕 Position paper: 1️⃣ year after - what happened to the EU Grids Action Plan? 🏗️ One year ago the EU presented its Grids Action Plan. It comprised 14 immediate actions to accelerate the build-out of Europe's electricity #grids and optimise the use of existing grid connections. 📢 For WindEurope one thing is clear: Infrastructure drives competitiveness. Europe's economy will not be competitive unless it is underpinned by the electricity infrastructure it needs. The EU Grids Action Plan was the right initiative and the right time. But it's not implemented fast enough. We need more action from the EU, Member States and TSOs. 🆘 A recent WindEurope study found that hundreds of gigawatts of new wind energy are stuck in grid permitting queues: https://lnkd.in/dzbZnEme 📝 In our new position paper we are breaking down what Europe needs to do now to accelerate grid build-out and unlock valuable wind energy capacity: https://lnkd.in/egsUdgGA

🏠 🏗️ You can now live inside a wind turbine! Vattenfall and the design studio Superuse converted a nacelle into a tiny house. This nacelle is four metres wide, ten metres long and three metres high. It comes from a turbine that stood in Austria for 20 years. 💙 Now this tiny house has everything you need: a kitchen, bathroom and living space. The house has smart features such as a heat pump, solar panels and a solar water heater. Wind turbines are made of standard materials such as concrete, steel, and composite materials for blades. The foundation, the tower, part of the gearbox and the generator are made of metal or concrete. These are easily recyclable. But the nacelle is challenging. It is made of materials such as glass fibre and reinforced plastics- which are difficult to recycle. Vattenfall and many others are looking for the best ways to reuse and repurpose the turbines. With this project Vattenfall demonstrates how materials can be reused in innovative ways. Get in the tiny house 🎥 https://lnkd.in/eSsCxijr 📷 Vattenfall

📣 Join our team as a Senior Receptionist! We are looking for a Senior Receptionist to join our Office Management Team. Be the ambassador that sets the tone for our guests and colleagues in a leading advocate organisation shaping the future of wind energy in Europe! 👉 See the full job description and apply here: https://lnkd.in/e8ZEr6EM Key responsibilities: - Greeting guests and managing calendars - Organising catering and travel arrangements - Handling complaints and ad hoc queries Qualifications: - 3+ years of relevant experience - Proficiency in Microsoft Office - Excellent English skills; other languages are a plus What we offer: - Competitive remuneration package with extra-legal benefits - Multicultural and stimulating environment - Open to individuals with disabilities 🗣 Please feel free to share the job with your friends or family members! Eline Post Marie Janiec #WindEurope #Jobs #Hiring

🇩🇰🌊 No offshore bids in Denmark - disappointing but sadly not surprising 0️⃣ Denmark’s latest 3 GW offshore wind auction round, the largest auction in Danish history, ended without any bids. 🗨️ “The failed Danish offshore wind auction was disappointing but sadly not surprising. Uncapped negative bidding is not a good system. It raises costs and risks. And it’s even harder when the bidders don’t know who’s going to be buying the energy they produce and how it’ll get to them. The Danish Government have got to change their auction design. Most other countries in Europe use 2-sided CfDs in their offshore wind auctions”, says Giles Dickson, WindEurope CEO. 🔜 The Danish Government must now quickly retender the lost volumes. And they must adapt their auction design to market realities. The industry needs healthier pricing and fairer risk allocation. 📝 Read our full press release: https://lnkd.in/ee9CkYVW Green Power Denmark State of Green Denmark

🌲♻️ Sustainability and innovation in action: could you ever picture wooden wind turbines? On the sidelines of our #EoLIS2024 event, Paula Rey Garcia and Giles Dickson yesterday visited Modvion’s factory in Gothenburg for a tour with Modvion CEO Otto Lundman. 👷 Modvion is a leading manufacturer of wooden wind turbine towers, replacing steel and concrete with renewable materials. This is great for sustainability. Wooden modules come with a much lower carbon footprint and the material itself stores carbon. The result is a carbon-negative tower, storing more carbon than is produced during manufacturing, transport and installation. And Modvion sources its wood only from regional European partners. 🚚 The wooden modules are also easier to transport thanks to their lower size and weight. This will one day allow us to build large wind turbines in locations that would have been otherwise inaccessible due to transport infrastructure restrictions. 🇸🇪 This year Modvion launched its first commercial wind turbine with a wooden tower in Skara, Sweden. It is 105m high and has a capacity of 2 MW. The company is currently working on a 6 MW turbine and says there’s no limit for their wood in terms of wind speed and height. ♻️ Modvion’s factory in Gothenburg is a great testament to the European wind industry’s constant drive to innovate and become more sustainable. The Swedish Wind Energy Association (SWEA)

🌬️♻️ Do you know all the cool ways to repurpose old wind turbine blades? ❇️✅ Wind farms have a standard lifetime of 20-25 years - with some turbines lasting up to 35 years and longer. 85-90% of a modern wind turbine's mass is fully recycled. 💡 But blades are harder to recycle. Many companies are now trying new ways to repurpose and reuse old blades. 🤝💚 An excellent example of innovation in turbine sustainability is BladeBridge. The company showcases how decommissioned turbine blades can be repurposed for a circular economy. ♻️ Through advanced inspection and reverse engineering, projects like BladeBridge turn blades into sustainable products for green infrastructure, such as cycling bridges or furniture. This approach not only reduces carbon emissions but also embraces circular economy principles. 🔜 It's the second day of our “End of Life Issues and Strategies” seminar #EoLIS2024 - stay tuned for more real-life repurposing solutions to enhance the sustainability of wind energy. Learn more about BladeBridge 👉 https://lnkd.in/esE5FW_6

As we launch into the second and last day of #EoLIS2024, WindEurope's seminar for wind turbine end-of-life issues and strategies, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our content partners Q ENERGY & Statkraft, and sponsors IX Renewables & ReWind, for supporting our event! For those still onsite in Gothenburg, find them at the decommissioning session at 11:15, or pass by their table-top exhibition stands in the coffee area. Find out all about our partners and sponsors here: https://lnkd.in/e5w58VET

🤔🏗️ Europe is not yet reaping the benefits of repowering old wind farms. 🎤 Today at our “End of Life Issues and Strategies” seminar (#EoLIS2024) in Gothenburg: more and more wind turbines start to reach the end of their operational lifetime. Repowering them - replacing them with new turbines - is proving to be very effective. Repowering on average reduces the number of turbines in a wind farm by 25%, while nearly tripling the output of the wind farm and quadrupling the output per wind turbine. 💬 “More electricity with fewer turbines – repowering is a no-brainer. But Governments are not doing enough to drive it. Most old wind farms just carry on with inefficient turbines”, said Giles Dickson, WindEurope CEO. ⏩ Paula Rey Garcia of the European Commission stressed the need for Member States to implement the EU permitting and repowering provisions in the revised Renewable Energy Directive. Read more about repowering and find out the latest developments in wind turbine recycling in our press release: 👉 https://lnkd.in/daXW5reH Daniel Badman Svensk Vindkraft / Swedish Wind Power Tobias Bogeskär RES Johan Terpstra ENERCON Lorenzo Morselli Alexander Vandenberghe

🔋⚡ Repowering Ukraine with renewables and storage Today WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson moderated a panel at "Repower Ukraine with Energy Storage and Renewables" hosted by the Energy Storage Coalition. #Renewables like wind and #energystorage are cornerstones of Ukraine's sustainable, secure, and independent energy future. Ukraine must integrate these sectors into the rebuilding processes. By doing so it will reduce its dependence on external energy sources and increase its energy security. The event explored the deployment of renewables and storage in the country. Panelists discussed financial viability and regulatory frameworks. Vadym Utkin Ievgeniia Kopytsia

🆕What does the new European Commission mean for wind energy deployment in Europe? 📹 In our latest 'Giles & Pierre' episode WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson and Chief Policy Officer Pierre TARDIEU discuss the new European Commission. The new College of Commissioners took office on 1 December and they’ve unveiled their agenda for the next five years – with a big focus on #competitiveness. Giles and Pierre explain what this means for #windenergy. But that's not all - they also analyse recent national developments in 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇷 France and 🇸🇪 Sweden. Watch the video here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXVKd7XM