Under the German VASAB Chairmanship in 2022 the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building and the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency are hosting a webinar „Offshore wind energy: Challenges and opportunities emerging from new European expansion targets” on the 9th of June 2022.… Read More »Save the Date VASAB webinar on Offshore wind energy
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) participated in another meeting of the informal shipping group in the North Sea on the 10th of March 2022. The participants of this group were from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United… Read More »International exchange in the informal shipping group for the North Sea
On 18 January 2022, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) determined the suitability of sites N-3.5, N-3.6 and N-7.2 for tendering by the Federal Network Agency pursuant to Part 3 Section 2 of the WindSee Act by means of a statutory order. The Second… Read More »BSH has made available for inspection the 2nd WindSeeV and other documents concerning the suitability assessment
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) is a project partner in the DG Mare project “eMSP NBSR – Emerging Ecosystem-based Maritime Spatial Planning Topics in the North and Baltic Sea Regions”, which started in September 2021. We would like to draw attention to… Read More »Save the date for the Opening Conference of the eMSP NBSR project, 22/02/2022
A meeting of the planning authorities in the North Sea Region took place on the 28th of January 2022. Participants represented planning authorities from France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Furthermore, representatives from the North Sea Commission participated as well. Based on the… Read More »Meeting of the North Seas MSP collaboration group
In the procedure for amending and updating the Site Development Plan, the BSH today published the joint written statement of the transmission system operators on the preliminary draft of the plan. The other comments received on the preliminary draft of the Site Development Plan and… Read More »Update of the Site Development Plan: Joint statement of the transmission system operators and further comments published
After the Maritime Spatial Plan 2021 for the German EEZ of the North Sea and Baltic Sea came into force on 01.09.2021 after extensive participation of authorities and the public, a spatial basis for the further expansion of offshore wind energy in the EEZ is… Read More »Amendment and update of the Site Development Plan
In the procedure for the amendment of the Site Development Plan 2020, the comments received were published on the BSH website https://www.bsh.de/EN/TOPICS/Offshore/Sectoral_planning/Site_development_plan/site_development_plan_node.htm after the end of the comment period. The subject of the amendment procedure initiated on September 17, 2021 is the definition of a… Read More »Procedure for the amendment of the Site Development Plan 2020: Comments published
On 3 November 2021, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) initiated the participation of federal states and associations regarding the draft of the Second Ordinance on the Implementation of the Offshore Wind Energy Act (Second Offshore Wind Energy Ordinance – 2. WindSeeV) (deadline 15… Read More »Initiation of the participation of federal states and associations regarding the draft of the Second Offshore Wind Energy Ordinance
In order to further improve the user-friendliness and content of the Data Hub Preliminary Investigation of Sites, we would like to invite all users to participate in a short survey. The online questionnaire, which is available in German and English, and further information and can… Read More »Feedback questionnaire for further enhancement of the user-friendliness of the Data Hub Preliminary Investigation of Sites until October 31th, 2021