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Offshore Wind Worldwide 2023
1. STATE AND FUTURE OF
OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS
1.1 Current state of offshore wind
development and projects
In 2022, wind energy continued to be the
largest energy source for the production of
electrical power in Germany, followed by
brown coal, solar, coal, natural gas, biomass,
nuclear power and hydropower.1 Public
(net) electricity generation from offshore
wind power amounted to about 24.7 TWh
and from onshore wind to about 98.6 TWh
(123.4 TWh out of a total of 490.9 TWh of
public (net) electricity generation). 2
This constitutes an overall increase of 10.5%
compared to the previous year, leading to
ashare of 25.1% for wind generated electricity: 5.0% by offshore wind and 20.1% by
onshore wind. 3 In total, the share of renewables in the (public) net electricity generation
increased to 49.6% compared to 45.6% in
20214 and compared to 50.5% in 2000. 5
While no offshore wind turbine generator
(OWTGs) have been installed during 2021,
expansion of offshore wind power installations in 2022 was rather minimal as well: only
38 offshore wind turbines with a nominal
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capacity of 342 MW have been installed for
the offshore wind farm (OWF) Kaskasi and
started their first feed-in during 2022. By
the end of 2022, a total of 1,539 offshore
wind turbines with a capacity of 8.1 GW
were connected to the grid. Construction
of the Arcadis Ost 1 OWP with a capacity of
247 MW was also started in 2022 and it is
scheduled to be fully commissioned in the
first half of 2023. 6
1.2 Expectations as to future
developments in the market
until 2030 and beyond
The political commitment of the current
Federal Government foresees to increase
the share of renewable energy in the power
production by 2030 to 80%.7
Offshore wind energy is expected to play a
key role in achieving this target and in 2022,
the Offshore Wind Energy Act - which is one
of the major relevant legislative instruments
in the regulatory framework for the offshore wind development (see section 1.3 of
this chapter) - has been materially amended (with effectiveness as from 1 January
2023) in order to better reflect this role by
accelerating the planning and permitting
procedures (see also section 2), by earlier
1 See for the net energy production for the public power grid https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/presse-und-medien/presseinformationen/2023/
nettostromerzeugung-in-deutschland-2022-wind-und-photovoltaik-haben-deutlich-zugelegt.html.
2 Öffentliche Nettostromerzeugung in Deutschland im Jahr 2022, Frauenhofer ISE, https://www.energy-charts.info/downloads/Stromerzeugung_2022.pdf , p. 10.
3
See fn. 2, p. 10.
4
See fn. 2, p. 3.
5 Öffentliche Nettostromerzeugung in Deutschland im Jahr 2020, Frauenhofer ISE, https://www.energy-charts.info/downloads/Stromerzeugung_2020_1.pdf , p. 10.
6 Status des Offshore-Windenergieausbaus in Deutschland Jahr 2022, Deutsche Windguard,, https://www.wind-energie.de/fileadmin/redaktion/
dokumente/publikationen-oeffentlich/themen/06-zahlen-und-fakten/20230116_Status_des_Offshore-Windenergieausbaus_Jahr_2022.pdf ,
p. 3.
7 Coalition Agreement 2021-2025, https://www.bundesregierung.de/resource/blob/974430/1990812/1f422c60505b6a88f8f3b3b5b8720
bd4/2021-12-10-koav2021-data.pdf?download=1, page 56.
