The reNEWS Podcast
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Episodes
12 episodes
Does Irish offshore wind have a credibility problem?
The first live reNEWS Podcast recorded at Wind Energy Ireland Offshore 2026 in Dublin. Editor Stephen Dunne interviews Statkraft wind and solar SVP Kevin O'Donovan about the current state of offshore wind in Ireland.
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'Too much noise around energy from alpha males with big egos but little knowledge'
Vattenfall UK country manager Claus Wattendrup speaks to The reNEWS Podcast on the sidelines of All-Energy 2026 about the political climate for renewables and the company's plans in onshore and offshore wind.
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Is UK offshore wind back on track?
A dispatch from All-Energy 2026 in Glasgow featuring interviews with RWE's Adam Ezzamel, Ocean Winds' Mark Baxter, Scottish Renewables boss Claire Mack and Ewan Walker, the project director of the Ayre floating wind farm.
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RenewableUK's new CEO on the political challenges facing wind
Tara Singh is two months into her new role as chief executive of the UK's main renewables industry trade group RenewableUK. On the sidelines of WindEurope 2026 in Madrid, she sat down with reNEWS editor Stephen Dunne for a wide-ranging intervie...
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Visiting Dutch foundations fabricator Sif with CEO Fred van Beers
Take a trip inside Sif's newly-expanded monopile manufacturing plant in Rotterdam with chief executive Fred van Beers who later sits down with reNEWS editor Stephen Dunne to discuss a looming slowdown in offshore wind and the rising threat from...
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Ireland's grid problem and the implications for onshore wind
John Reilly, who heads up Irish developer BnM's renewable energy business, tells The reNEWS Podcast about the decommissioning of the country's first commercial-scale wind farm, what will replace it and how the project tells a broader story abou...
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New WindEurope CEO: 'We must back European wind supply chain in battle with Chinese suppliers'
New WindEurope chief executive Tinne van der Straeten outlines her priorities in the job, her views on the threat from Chinese suppliers, the reason why the Hamburg Declaration will come good and her concerns over growing anti-renewables right-...
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A pivotal year for Scottish offshore wind
A reNEWS dispatch from trade group Scottish Renewables' Offshore Wind Conference 2026 in Glasgow. Hear Net Zero and Energy Cabinet Secretary Gillian Martin's call to level the playing field, Crown Estate Scotland on a pivotal year for ScotWind ...
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NNG: Rising out of adversity
Matt Haag is the project director of the 450MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm off the east coast of Scotland. In this week's reNEWS podcast, Haag reflects on the challenges of a troubled five-year construction campaign.
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ORE Catapult chief Steve Foxley at the UK Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight
reNEWS Offshore Wind Editor Paul Stephen on the ORE Catapult's UK Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight event in Edinburgh and his interview with the innovation organisation's chief Steve Foxley
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