How to create more added value to the renewable wind energy

April 24 was a busy workday at ATTA Centre, Riga, for the wind energy professionals at the Wind Works’ 2025 - the main platform for experts, policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders to network and discuss opportunities, challenges, and best practices in the wind energy sector across the Baltic States.

The Liepaja SEZ CEO Uldis Hmieļevskis introduced the industry professionals and investors to the advantages of the Port of Liepaja and those of the adjacent industrial areas, as well as on the progress of the earlier proposed renewable energy projects.

Chris Barton, Executive Director of the Port of Ronne, shared his experience of how the Danish Port of Ronne on the Island of Bornholm, transformed from a small fishing port into one of the leading ports in the Baltic Sea as a support base for construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms. He also wished that the Port of Liepaja experiences similar growth to that of the Port of Ronne.

In one of the panel discussions on the role of ports in the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms, the Van Oord Development Project Director Roger Claquin listed a number of conditions that are of vital importance among which the location plays the leading role – this is why, based on thorough feasibility studies by Van Oord, the Port of Liepaja was selected as the most advantageous offshore wind park support base project site.Also, a number of renewable energy development project developers have initiated their research and feasibility studies to implement their projects.

The offshore wind support base, the green hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production plant, the captured carbon terminal, the hydrogen-powered aircraft manufacturing plant – even though separate projects however indirectly related and contemplating each other

The Liepaja SEZ Authority, together with the municipality, local and foreign investors, the Latvian Investment and Development Agency and the Riga Technical University have established the Liepaja Sustainable Industry Hub with an aim of making Liepaja a climate-neutral city, friendly to the local community and the environment.