Autumn FIRMLY

"Without offshore rescue there is no offshore expansion" - with this statement Irina Lucke, Deputy Chairwoman of the BWO, the Vision offshore rescue 2030+ at the second time BWO Autumn Festival in Berlin before. In the coming decades, offshore wind farms are to be built at distances of up to 350 kilometers from the coast. However, with the current offshore rescue infrastructure, a quick rescue of people who have had an accident can only be guaranteed up to a distance of 180 kilometers from the coast. And the expansion of the rescue infrastructure requires a similarly long lead time as the planning and construction of an offshore wind farm together.  

"One thing is clear: we need a decision from the industry and politics now so that we have a functioning rescue chain in 10 years," explained BWO managing director Stephen Thimm. The BWO, together with experts from the industry, took up this challenge at an early stage and developed a vision for the rescue of workers in the offshore wind farms developed in the future. The options for action are a rescue platform, ship or energy islands yet to be built. The advantages of each solution can be seen in the Vision offshore rescue 2030+ ... 

In an exciting round of talks, MdB Bengt Bergt (SPD), MdB Andrew Ullmann (FDP), Energy Transition Minister Tobias Goldschmidt (Schleswig-Holstein) and Enrico Schäfer (RWE) then discussed how the political responsibilities for offshore rescue could be structured in the future. Responsibility must be assumed by a central body, and everyone agreed that a regulatory patchwork quilt should be avoided. The dialogue with the federal states initiated by the Federal Ministry of Economics could be a good first step to create clarity here soon.  

Go to the Vision offshore rescue 2030+