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Presentations form the Baltic InteGrid conference

Materials presented during Offshore Grid and Offshore Wind Energy in the Baltic Sea – Opportunity for Integrating Energy Markets, which took place in Warsaw on June 7, 2018.

Baltic InteGrid – Introduction (Mariusz Wójcik, Foundation for Sustainable Energy)
Baltic offshore grid concept (Pierre Ståhl, Energikontor Sydost)
Pre-feasibility studies – Introduction (Mariusz Wójcik, Foundation for Sustainable Energy)
Pre-feasibility study – Case study 1 (Andreas Möser, Lund University)
Pre-feasibility study – Case study 2 (Thilo Krupp, Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie)
Weighing costs and benefits of a meshed grid in the Baltic Sea (Rasmus Borrmann, Deutsche WindGuard and Richard Weinhold, IKEM)

Photo relation from the Baltic InteGrid conference

On June 7 in Warsaw, the Baltic InteGrid project partners met with representatives of international sector of offshore wind energy at the Offshore Grid and Offshore Wind Energy in the Baltic Sea conference – Opportunity for Integrating Energy Markets. Together with 80 participants we discussed the future of the development of the offshore grid in the Baltic Sea based on the results of a feasibility study for two cross-border connections: Poland-Sweden-Lithuania and Germany-Sweden integrated with offshore wind farms. The Baltic InteGrid conference was co-financed from the INTERREG Baltic Sea Region program.

Link: The conference was a part of the initiative of European Union Sustainable Energy Week!

REN21: 70% additions to global power is RES energy

Renewables 2018 Global Status Report (GSR) – REN21 published an annual report on statistics on renewable energy sources (RES) in the world. According to the data, last year was record-breaking in terms of RES expansion. 70% of new production capacities completed last year were renewable sources.

Renewable power generation capacity saw its largest annual increase ever with an estimated 178 gigawatts added globally: 100 GW in PV and 52 GW in wind energy. 75% of global investments were in China, UE and USA.

Despite of growing renewable energy capacity, last year global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4%. The increase in carbon emissions was the result of robust global economic growth, lower fossil fuel prices and weaker energy efficiency efforts.

Source: REN21