🌊⚓From 8 to 10 April 2025, WindEurope, in cooperation with Copenhagen and Green Power Denmark, organized a European wind industry meeting 👏 of superlatives: WindEurope2025
For me, the event with the conference and trade fair was unfortunately over in no time at all on April 9. Nevertheless, the bottom line was that the days were intense, full of content and perfect! Many thanks to the entire WindEurope team 👏all the supporters and the more than 550 companies on site who made this impressive event possible. More than 16,000 participants came to the Bella Center.
Back in Germany and still thinking about 🤔: “Scale up, Electrify, Deliver – Putting wind at the 💙 heart of Europe’s competitiveness” …. The session: “SupplyChain: Can we still make wind in Europe?” – was a particular highlight of this year’s program for me: Many thanks 🙏 to the two inspiring panels.
We will probably soon see 🔜 how far the overriding public interest extends and how much the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIAI) can achieve.
Declared 🎯goal: Competitive decarbonization for climate protection, industrial economic growth as well as the decisive RE value creation perspective and sustainable energy supply security for Europe.
There is a unique opportunity to simultaneously optimize resilience, competitiveness, energy sovereignty, climate protection, industrial growth and employment growth in Europe and to jointly achieve a truly sustainable perspective. The carbon footprint is relevant here. Wind energy is the key to a 100% sustainable energy supply, which must also be the job engine of tomorrow!
Decisive factors include the climate-protecting expansion of wind energy on land and at sea, the tendering conditions, the interaction of the different generation profiles in the electricity grid (+ rapid European grid/infrastructure expansion) and, of course, the speed of qualification and training in Europe.
Even if there are and will be (and always have been) 🌪️headwinds, there are some unbeatable🥊reasons in favor of using offshore wind energy to generate electricity and produce green hydrogen.
Challenges such as wake effects require a climate protection-oriented debate with all users that leads to harmonized, but by no means reduced, maritime spatial planning for the North and Baltic Seas in order to make the most of offshore wind.
It was fantastic 🤩 to meet so many wonderful colleagues there, especially from the offshore wind industry – thank you very much for the motivating exchange!
WindEurope in Madrid from April 21 to 23, 2026 is already firmly on the calendar and until then I am (in terms of the offshore wind industry/energy) particularly looking forward to –
- the 17th Wind Energy Industry Day in NRW at the heart of the transformation on July 8, 2025 in Düsseldorf! https://nrw-windenergie.de/
- the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW 2025), “Powering a fair and competitive green transition” from June 10 to 12 in Brussels! https://sustainable-energy-week.ec.europa.eu/index_en
- the Offshore Connect conference in Rostock-Warnemünde on October 17, 2025 (on the Baltic Sea for the Baltic Sea). The Recruiting Day will take place on October 16 for the 2nd time.
and in between there will hopefully be many more exciting offshore wind and/or mEErFrauen e.V. events for me as a participant.
