Abstract
he Offshore Wind Implementation Working Group (IWG) is composed of representatives from relevant European countries (member states, governmental agencies from NL, BE, DE, EE, ES, FR, IT, NO, TR and UK) and stakeholders, representing both industry and academia with interests in offshore wind, as well as from representatives of the European Commission (DG RTD, DG ENER, JRC). Since the first version of the SET-Plan Implementation Plan for Offshore Wind was published in 2018, the IWG has continued its work in collaboration with the EU funded project SETWind. This collaboration has led to this updated version of the SET-Plan Implementation Plan for Offshore Wind. The updated Implementation Plan has been developed in close coordination with ETIPWind and EERA JP Wind.
The SET Plan is nested in an EU policy context consisting of the EU Energy Union, the European Green Deal, the EU Fit for 55 package and a set of strategy papers touching directly on the issue of offshore wind, namely the EU Strategy for Offshore Renewable Energy (Nov 2020), the EU Strategy for Energy System Integration (July 2020) and the EU Strategy for Hydrogen (July 2020).
The main elements of the first 2018 Implementation Plan were the cost targets for floating and bottom fixed offshore wind and the nine R&I priority actions. Both elements have been updated in the present 2022 Implementation Plan. The targets have been expanded from two to four while the priority actions have been reduced from nine to six.
The 2018 Implementation Plan stated the need for a total of €1000 million to be invested in offshore wind energy by 2030. However, an analysis by ETIPWind shows that the combined private and public investment in wind energy reached €1994 million in 2018 1 . While industry spending dwarfs public investments in wind energy R&D, the combined investments of industry and public funding bodies in wind energy R&D remains essential to bring new innovations from academia and RTOs to the industry, as well as to provide a fertile environment to educate and train thousands of future employees in the wind energy sector.
The SET Plan is nested in an EU policy context consisting of the EU Energy Union, the European Green Deal, the EU Fit for 55 package and a set of strategy papers touching directly on the issue of offshore wind, namely the EU Strategy for Offshore Renewable Energy (Nov 2020), the EU Strategy for Energy System Integration (July 2020) and the EU Strategy for Hydrogen (July 2020).
The main elements of the first 2018 Implementation Plan were the cost targets for floating and bottom fixed offshore wind and the nine R&I priority actions. Both elements have been updated in the present 2022 Implementation Plan. The targets have been expanded from two to four while the priority actions have been reduced from nine to six.
The 2018 Implementation Plan stated the need for a total of €1000 million to be invested in offshore wind energy by 2030. However, an analysis by ETIPWind shows that the combined private and public investment in wind energy reached €1994 million in 2018 1 . While industry spending dwarfs public investments in wind energy R&D, the combined investments of industry and public funding bodies in wind energy R&D remains essential to bring new innovations from academia and RTOs to the industry, as well as to provide a fertile environment to educate and train thousands of future employees in the wind energy sector.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | Technical University of Denmark |
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Number of pages | 38 |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |