France is in the process of updating its maritime spatial plans, and is now revising the ‘stratégie maritime de façade’ for the four metropolitan maritime regions: Eastern Channel-North Sea, North Atlantic Western Channel, South Atlantic and Mediterranean maritime regions.Under the MSFD, the ‘stratégie maritime de… Read More »Revision of the French maritime spatial plans
Revisions of the datasets “Database of Geotechnical Surveys” and “Cone Penetration Tests (CPT)” were added in the Data Hub Preliminary Investigation of Sites (PINTA) for site N-10.1 and N-10.2 on 27 March 2025. Furthermore, “Database of the Geotechnical Surveys” was replaced for site N-10.1. The… Read More »Revisions available in the Data Hub PINTA for site N-10.1 and N-10.2
The BSH has received an application by the companies Amprion Offshore GmbH and Amprion GmbH for the planning approval procedure according to the Offshore Wind Energy Act for the construction and operation of the offshore grid-connection system „BalWin1 und BalWin alpha“ in the German EEZ… Read More »BSH announces plan documents for the offshore grid-connection system „BalWin1 und BalWin alpha“
Annex 3 of the site development plan 2025 shows a variant of future determinations in areas N-14 to N-20 (under review) in zones 4 and 5 of the North Sea EEZ for information. In preparation of the upcoming revision procedure, the BSH provides an opportunity… Read More »Site development plan: List of questions in preparation of the upcoming procedure
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) is working intensively to achieve the target of 70 gigawatts offshore wind energy by 2045. To this end, the BSH launched mid-December a multi-year measurement campaign with the German Weather Service (DWD) and the contracted company Fugro Norway.… Read More »70-Gigawatt Target: BSH launches wind and ocean measurement campaign with DWD for future offshore wind energy
The BSH issued the planning approval decision for the offshore windfarm “Windanker” on 24 January 2025 based on Section 45 of the Offshore Wind Energy Act in the version of 31 December 2022 in connection with Section 74 of the Administrative Procedure Act. A digital… Read More »BSH announces planning approval decision for the construction and operation of the offshore windfarm “Windanker”
On December 23, 2024, the Dutch Ministry of Climate Policy sent Germany the draft memorandum on scope and level of detail of the environmental impact assessment for the “Doordewind” wind energy area in the Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone of the North Sea. The planned wind… Read More »Announcement on transboundary participation according to Section 59 para. 1 Environmental Impact Assessment Act for the offshore wind farm (Site I) in the Doordewind wind energy area in the Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone of the North Sea
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has notified Germany that the developer, RWE Renewables Sweden AB, intends to apply for a permit for the construction of the offshore wind farm “Elinor” in Sweden’s exclusive economic zon of the Baltic Sea. The Elinor wind farm is planned… Read More »Announcement of the BSH on transboundary participation according to Espoo Convention regarding the planned offshore wind farm „Elinor“ (NV-06165-24)
In the Data Hub Preliminary Investigation of Sites (PINTA) for sites N-9.1, N-9.2 and N-9.3 revisions of the data sets “Multi-channel Seismics – Complementary Data and Information” were added for each for the sub-area N-09E and N-09W to the data package “Multi-channel Seismic Data”. Further… Read More »Revisions in the Data Hub PINTA for site N-9.1, N-9.2 and N-9.3
The Danish Ministry of Environment has drawn up a plan for the construction of offshore wind farms in an area in the North Sea in order to implement the political agreements for significantly greater energy production from wind energy before the end of 2030. The… Read More »transboundary participation according to Section 63 para. 1 Environmental Impact Assessment Act on the transboundary environmental impact assessment regarding the environmental report for the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the plan for the offshore wind farms at the site ‘Nordsøen I’, located in the North Sea