The North Sea Summit delivered an unambiguous message: offshore wind is essential for Europe's future. During the gathering, German Chancellor Merz and Energy Commissioner Jørgensen placed offshore wind at the heart of the continent's energy security, industrial competitiveness, and resilience.
Geopolitical tensions and conflicts that drive fossil energy price volatility have since demonstrated how critical these objectives are.
Yet the challenge is stark: meeting Europe’s 2030 climate and energy security targets requires installing 21 GW of new offshore wind capacity annually, nearly ten times the historic pace. And that requires overcoming barriers in areas such as grid access, permitting, and supply chains.
Providing scale to meet Europe's deployment needs
The EU, UK and Norway are addressing many of these challenges. The European Parliament's work on the EU Action Plan for Grids looks at how Europe’s infrastructure can absorb the rapid expansion of offshore generation capacity. The Industrial Accelerator Act looks at simplifying permitting process. And countries such as Germany and Denmark are revamping their tender processes by embracing the UK-designed CfD mechanisms, through which the UK is also accelerating its own tenders.
To effectively address supply chain bottlenecks requires manufacturing infrastructure capable of delivering at the volume and pace needed
To effectively address supply chain bottlenecks requires manufacturing infrastructure capable of delivering at the volume and pace needed. Implement Consulting Group’s recent report highlights that European manufacturers can currently meet only around 55% of 2030 monopile demand. This is consistent with a separate report recently issued by Boston Consulting Group, which observes that offshore wind additions would need to accelerate sevenfold to meet 2030 goals, whereas current capacity in Europe can only supply between 29% and 68% of required capacity depending on the project component. Supply chain reliability matters: delays in equipment delivery such as foundations create cascading effects, postponing turbine installation, grid connection, and power generation.
Our proposed solution is a “Work with Europe” approach, which should frame policies such as the Industrial Accelerator Act. As a self-funded, fully privately owned, listed company, Dajin supports and embraces a level playing field. However, we see real risks for Europe of unnecessarily restricting and limiting outside sourcing. Indeed, that could accelerate and intensify bottlenecks that will impact the entire industry’s prospects, by slowing innovation, factory upgrades, and crucially threatening jobs here in Europe.
Working within Europe's offshore wind ecosystem
Over the past seven years, Dajin has supported more than 5 GW of offshore wind deployment across Europe, delivering hundreds of monopiles and transition pieces (structural components without embedded software or connectivity) that power millions of homes with clean energy. We integrate deeply with European developers, supply chains, and infrastructure.
Strategic partnerships that combine manufacturing scale with local integration can help bridge supply gaps during this critical ramp-up period
For example, our Poland partnerships with local manufacturers Wulkan Shipyard, JWSC and Ferrum have generated over €120 million in supply chain contracts. In Spain, we are collaborating with Zima Equity on innovative floating wind technology and the possibility of establishing a manufacturing facility at the Port of Gijón.
Supporting Europe's energy transition
These partnerships illustrate Dajin’s “Work with Europe” approach as we support Europe's offshore wind acceleration.
The path to 2030 requires pragmatic solutions that address capacity constraints while maintaining deployment momentum. Strategic partnerships that combine manufacturing scale with local integration can help bridge supply gaps during this critical ramp-up period.
The North Sea Summit has reaffirmed Europe's determination. Now comes the work of delivery.
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