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Map of the top five offshore wind turbine installation ports (Esbjerg, Eemshaven, Nigg, Hull, Able Seaton) and foundation installation ports (Rotterdam, Eemshaven, Vlissingen, Rønne, Teesside) in the North Sea and Baltic since 2015, sized by GW handled.
October 27, 2026
Supply chain
Offshore wind
Europe
Poland
Denmark
Germany
Netherlands
Belgium

Are ports the biggest bottleneck for the offshore wind build-out in the North Sea and Baltic?

Table comparing five offshore wind tenders with the NZIA minimum on cybersecurity, resilience and sustainability. Belgium meets it on all three. Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands go beyond on some criteria, France on all three. Aegir Insights, 2026.
October 22, 2026
Auctions
Offshore wind
Europe
Belgium
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
France

Are upcoming European offshore wind tenders going beyond NZIA’s minimum requirements?

Bar chart of annual offshore wind FIDs outside China in GW, 2015 to 2026 year to date. 2023 is the record year, and the 2026 year-to-date bar, about 2 GW, is marked 82% below it. Source: Aegir Insights, October 2026.
October 20, 2026
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Offshore wind
Europe
APAC
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The slump of offshore wind FID volumes outside China

Map of Europe's storage projects: Batteries co-located with a wind farm (dark teal), a solar park (light teal) or another host (pale teal), and all other storage projects in grey, operating to planned. Source: Aegir Storage Database, 12 October 2026.
October 15, 2026
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Onshore wind
Solar
Storage
Europe
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Europe’s hybrid storage projects, mapped

Bar chart of approximate years from contract award to first power for offshore transmission platforms: German TSO-built about 6 in operation and about 7.8 if ordered since 2022, vs. about 5 (HVDC) and 3 (HVAC) for developer-built in Great Britain.
October 14, 2026
Supply chain
Offshore wind
Europe
Germany
United Kingdom
Denmark
Poland

Connected on paper: Europe’s offshore wind grid queue

Map of Ireland showing the probable RESS 6 bidding field: 120 grid-contracted onshore wind and solar PV projects, one dot per project sized by offer MW, wind across the west and southwest, solar in the east and midlands.
October 13, 2026
Auctions
Onshore wind
Solar
Europe
Ireland

Sizing the competition in Ireland’s RESS 6 auction

Bar chart of permitted, awarded and commissioned onshore wind capacity in Germany per year, 2018 to 2026. Permitted capacity rises 98% from 2023 to 2024 and 38% to a 2025 peak, while commissioning stays far lower. 2026 covers January to September.
October 8, 2026
Auctions
Onshore wind
Europe
Germany

Germany's onshore wind bottleneck has moved beyond permitting

Chart: cumulative offshore wind capacity by region excluding China, rising from about 55 GW in 2026 to 90 GW in 2030, 171 GW in 2035 and 260 GW in 2040, with the Q2 2026 view shown as dashed outlines.
October 6, 2026
Forecast
Offshore wind
Europe
APAC
North America
South Korea
United States

Offshore wind capacity forecast to 2040: What moved this quarter

The next generation of renewable energy intelligence, shown over a map of Europe covered in renewable energy project locations.
October 1, 2026
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Aegir Insights launches next-generation energy intelligence platform

Donut chart: Europe's offshore wind pipeline carries 60+ GW across 60+ projects without turbine orders, split by Aegir Maturity Score into Late Development (above 40), Upper Early Development (30-40, the largest share) and Lower Early Development (5-29).
September 30, 2026
Supply chain
Offshore wind
Europe
United Kingdom
Germany

Europe's early 2030s offshore wind pipeline holds 60+ GW of supplier opportunities

Contracted MW by technology in European data center PPAs. In 2015-2021, 1,465 MW across three technologies, led by onshore wind with smaller solar and offshore wind volumes. In 2022-2026, 4,360 MW across eight technologies, led by solar, then onshore wind, nuclear and offshore wind, with a small volume of other technologies. Source: Aegir Insights, September 2026.
September 29, 2026
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Data centers
Onshore wind
Offshore wind
Solar
Europe
Ireland
Netherlands
Spain
Finland

European data center power contracting has almost tripled since 2022

Map of the probable UK AR8 bid field, one dot per project sized by biddable MW: onshore wind in blue, almost entirely in Scotland, and solar PV in yellow, concentrated across England. 2.0 GW of onshore wind across 41 projects and 8.7 GW of solar across 193 projects. Source: Aegir Insights, AIR-0300.
September 22, 2026
Auctions
Onshore wind
Solar
Europe
United Kingdom

UK AR8 eligibility: Sizing the onshore bid field

Estimated IRR uplift from a co-located battery at Hesselø and Hornsea 3, post-tax and nominal, across three battery sizes from 100 MW / 200 MWh to 300 MW / 600 MWh. High price volatility lifts the uplift above the low volatility cases at every size, and Hesselø sits above Hornsea 3 in both. Source: Aegir Quant modeling, September 2026.
September 17, 2026
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Storage
Offshore wind
Europe
North Sea
Denmark
United Kingdom

Size the battery and bet on volatility: What co-located storage does to offshore wind returns

Stacked bar chart of the US onshore wind pipeline by COD year, 2026 to 2031, in GW. Pipeline to 2031 of 52.3 GW, 17.1 GW under construction and 35.3 GW still in development. Bars split into operational, construction and development capacity with the Aegir Central forecast overlaid, and a marker at end-2030, the last date to finish construction and keep the credit. Source: Aegir Projects database, Aegir Market Forecast Q2 2026.
September 15, 2026
Forecast
Onshore wind
North America
United States

Best demand, worst policy: US onshore wind enters the post-credit market

Three-panel bar chart: Denmark's current North Sea South support budget against the budget needed for an 8% project IRR, post-tax and nominal, under base and low power price scenarios. The DKK bn axis carries no printed values. Source: Aegir Quant 2026.2.
September 10, 2026
Auctions
Offshore wind
Europe
North Sea
Denmark

What budget would make Denmark's North Sea South investable?

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