The department O “Management of the Sea” of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) publishes news on the current processes and procedures regarding offshore topics. Shipping, the navy, fishing, tourism, offshore wind farms, offshore activities and marine research take up space on the oceans.… Read More »Welcome to the BSH Offshore news
BSH announces plan approval decision for the construction and operation of the offshore windfarm “EnBW He Dreiht” The BSH issued the plan approval decision for the offshore windfarm “EnBW He Dreiht”on 20 December 2022 based on Section 45 of the Offshore Wind Energy Act in… Read More »BSH announces plan approval decision for the construction and operation of the offshore windfarm “EnBW He Dreiht”
Support Group 2 (SG2) of the North Sea Energy Cooperation discusses issues of maritime spatial planning and has recently published a study on the expansion of offshore wind energy until 2030 on the basis of national spatial plans and strategies. The study examines spatial conflicts… Read More »North Sea Energy Cooperation: Publication of a study on wind energy development in the North Seas until 2030
With announcement dated 20 January 2023, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) announced the publication of the site development plan 2023. With this revision the BSH secures the expansion targets for offshore wind energy, which have been increased to at least 30 GW by… Read More »Revision of the site development plan: Notice of publication of the site development plan 2023
Today, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has published on its website a report on spatially relevant developments in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the North Sea and Baltic Sea for the year 2021. The overview report summarizes all essential information on… Read More »Publication of a report on developments in the exclusive economic zone
Following extensive preparation, an Ad Hoc Study Group on offshore wind energy and shipping met for the first time on the 16th of December 2022 under the chairmanship of the Netherlands. In addition to the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) and Federal Waterways… Read More »First meeting of the Ad Hoc Study Group wind energy and shipping
As part of the amendment process of the site development plan, the BSH has published all comments received by 25 November 2022 within the consultation rounds. The comments can be accessed here.
By announcement of 28 October 2022, the BSH published a second draft of the site development plan. This second draft contains primarily amendments to the first draft of the site development plan as well as questions for consultation that have arisen in particular due to… Read More »Amendment of the site development plan: publication of the second draft
On 5 September 2022, the BSH defined the investigation framework for the site investigation and strategic environmental assessment of sites for offshore wind farms. The documents for sites N-9.1, N-9.2, N-9.3, N-10.1 and N-10.2 and N-6.7 in the North Sea EEZ were published on the… Read More »BSH publishes investigation framework for offshore sites
In the procedure of amending and updating the site development plan, the BSH today published the statements on the draft and the corresponding environmental reports for North Sea and Baltic Sea. All documents relating to the procedure are published on the BSH website.