Offshore Wind Energy

/LONDON, July 22, 2026, 9:00 BST, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH™/ ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) has announced plans for a GBP 1.5 billion repowering project that will double the generation capacity of Whitelee, the UK’s premier onshore wind farm. This strategic investment is designed to significantly strengthen the nation’s energy security, support the creation of hundreds of skilled jobs, and unlock GBP 500 million in new opportunities for the domestic supply chain, reinforcing SPR’s leadership in the UK renewable energy sector.

/LONDON, August 28, 2025, 10:15 BST, ScottishPower Energy Networks, Iberdrola/ Iberdrola is continuing to move forward in improving and modernising its renewable facilities around the world. Through its UK subsidiary ScottishPower, the company has begun expansion works at its Arecleoch and Kilgallioch wind farms, located in the Scottish council areas of South Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway.

/LONDON, August 11, 2025, 12:20 BST, ScottishPower Energy Networks, Iberdrola/ ScottishPower Energy Networks, Iberdrola's distributor in the United Kingdom, and National Grid Electricity Transmission reached an important milestone in the development of the Eastern Green Link 4 project (EGL4), a new subsea electricity 'motorway', by choosing Siemens Energy as the preferred bidder for the project's two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter stations.

/ESSEN, GERMANY, June 10, 2025, 10:00 CET, RWE/ RWE announces the official inauguration of the Beg Ar C’Hra wind farm, located in the municipalities of Plounévez-Moëdec and Plounérin, in Brittany, France. The project was co-developed in partnership with the Lannion-Trégor semi-public company (SEM). This collaboration led to the granting of the environmental permit in 2022 without appeal. Construction of the wind farm began a year later, in the fall of 2023, with successful commissioning in November 2024.

/MADRID, November 2, 2023, 10:00 GMT, Iberdrola/ Iberdrola has signed a strategic agreement with Masdar, a major renewable energy group based in Abu Dhabi, to co-invest in the 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm, located in the German Baltic Sea. Following confirmation that all the necessary regulatory approvals have been received, Iberdrola will have a majority stake of 51% in the project, which will help to accelerate energy independence in Europe.

/LONDON, February 6, 2023, 9:30 GMT, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ Offshore wind energy has become an increasingly important renewable energy source in Germany. The German government has implemented several policies and initiatives to support the expansion of offshore wind energy. One of the most significant are amendments to Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and to the German Offshore Wind Energy Act (WindSeeG), which sets out a framework for developing offshore wind farms and provides rules for auctioning offshore wind energy projects. The country has set ambitious goals to expand offshore wind power, with…