Overview
- Chancellor Friedrich Merz convenes the third North Sea summit in Hamburg with leaders and energy ministers from nine countries to advance cross‑border offshore wind, hydrogen development, and grid links.
- IG Metall Küste urges the federal government to deliver concrete project orders at the summit, warning that without contracts German industry could miss the offshore build‑out.
- Environment ministers from Niedersachsen and Schleswig‑Holstein call for urgent reform of federal auction rules after an August tender for North Sea sites drew no bids.
- The German shipbuilding association VSM warns of a looming shortage of specialist installation and cable‑laying vessels, noting limited domestic capacity and heavy reliance on foreign—especially Chinese—operators.
- Germany’s targets remain 30 GW of offshore capacity by 2030, 40 GW by 2035, and 70 GW by 2045, compared with about 9.2 GW installed today.