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The offshore wind podcast 

Podcast - SEA ENERGY

In the MEER ENERGIE podcast series, editor Ina Brzoska talks to pioneers in offshore wind energy about visions and concepts for the future of the industry. Why do we actually need offshore wind energy and what should happen to the electricity generated at sea? What is it like to work in an offshore wind farm? And how are the animal inhabitants of the seas with the many wind turbines? This podcast is the first in Germany to deal with the topic of wind energy generation at sea. It is produced by ZEIT STUDIO on behalf of the Federal Association of Wind Farm Operators Offshore eV and in cooperation with Ørsted - the world market leader in offshore wind energy and the most sustainable company in the world. Supported by the companies RWE and WindMW.

Episode 6: Offshore Wind Energy Goes Global

19 November 2021
Nigel Slater, Managing Director of the Canadian energy company Northland Power and Gunnar Herzig, Managing Director and co-founder of the World Forum Offshore Wind, provide insights into the international offshore wind energy market. They answer questions like: is there a race on the oceans? And which markets can we learn from?
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Episode 5: Species protection in the offshore wind farm

22 October 2021
In this episode, Prof. Dr. Karen Wiltshire, Deputy Director of the Alfred Wegner Institute for Polar and Marine Research and Irina Lucke, Managing Director of Omexom Renewable Energies Offshore, about the expansion of offshore wind energy in the North and Baltic Seas. Together they think about how we can reconcile the energy transition and the protection of our sea creatures and talk about what is actually floating around in offshore wind farms.
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Episode 4: Out and about in the offshore wind farm

September 20, 2021
In this episode we listen to the world of offshore wind turbines. Michael Splett, who heads offshore operations at EnbW, explains what it takes to build gigantic offshore parks on the high seas and keep them running. In addition, Site Manager Sönke Prieß from WindMW reports what he and his team are doing and experiencing many kilometers away from the coast.
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Episode 3: How do we get the electricity price under control?

August 19, 2021
In this episode, MP Johann Saathoff (SPD) and Catrin Jung (Head of Offshore Wind, Vattenfall) about how industry and politics can prevent electricity prices for consumers from exploding and explain how large energy companies actually refinance the high investment costs, for example arise from the expansion of offshore energy.
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Episode 2: Green gas from the sea?

July 15, 2021
Member of the Bundestag Dr. Stefan Kaufmann (Green Hydrogen Innovation Officer) and Sven Utermöhlen (RWE Renewables) explain why green hydrogen is so urgently needed, how we can achieve a rapid market ramp-up in Germany and what offshore wind energy has to do with it.
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Episode 1: Offshore electricity on the rise

June 17, 2021
In the first episode of our MEER ENERGIE podcast, Jörg Kubitza, Managing Director of Ørsted in Germany and Rainer Baake from the Climate Neutrality Foundation outline the visions, opportunities and challenges of the offshore wind industry.
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