WindEnergy Hamburg 2020 | Day 1

The opening day of the first virtual WindEnergy Hamburg is off to a racing start with opening ministerials this morning flagging the vast, transformative potential European wind power can have for the region and wider world as the energy transition accelerates.

Recharge, as exclusive media partner of the WindTV conference organised by WindEurope and exhibition run by Hamburg Messe, is on hand reporting through the week. Get up to speed with the news you need to know now via the links below and watch for our ten-minute briefing each day at Business News Live on the OpenStream platform.

Vestas CTO: 'The more industrialised we can be as a sector the bigger the role we can play'

As the Danish wind giant buys out offshore venture partner MHI, technology chief Anders Nielsen talks with Darius Snieckus about innovation, the company's energy transition mission, and catching the market's 'fat fish'

GE takes wraps off biggest-ever onshore wind turbine with 6MW Cypress

Modular-bladed 6.0-164 model will have an annual energy production 11% higher than the US OEM’s 5.3-158

2020 Eurovision: the year offshore wind became Europe's great shared project

Ambitions for wind at sea are now common ground from the continents' north to south and across Brexit boundaries

'A question of time': Is onshore giant Enel softening towards offshore wind?

CEO repeats concerns over wind at sea but comments appear to leave door ajar for change of view

Siemens Gamesa CEO Andreas Nauen named new WindEurope chairman

EDF Renewables executive vice president Nicolas Couderc to serve as vice chairman of the industry group

'Floating wind potential is huge, but without government buy-in will be jeopardised'

There's no doubting the scale of the global opportunity represented by deepwater wind, writes Dan Kyle Spearman. The next ten years is key to it joining the mainstream energy mix