On March 18, 2026, HCSS Deputy Director Michel Rademaker will give a presentation at the 5th Anniversary Kuressaare Offshore Wind Conference in Estonia. The conference is organized by Saare Wind Energy & Van Oord, the Netherlands Embassy in Estonia, the Estonian Wind Power Association and Saaremaa Development Centre.
The 5th Kuressaare Offshore Wind Conference 2026 takes place from 17–19 March 2026 in Saaremaa, Estonia. It brings together industry leaders, policymakers, and experts to discuss the future of the Baltic offshore wind sector, covering infrastructure, investment, and maritime energy development.
Session | Offshore wind as security infrastructure – protecting the sea through monitoring and intelligence
Offshore energy installations are increasingly seen not only as assets to be protected but also as platforms that can support security. This session explores how wind parks, substations and cables can host monitoring, acoustic sensing and surveillance functions and contribute to maritime domain intelligence and security. It will focus on practical applications such as seabed sensing, vessel tracking, anomaly detection and data sharing and what capabilities can realistically be integrated into future offshore projects to strengthen resilience without disproportionate cost or operational burden. The new method, legal base and risk sharing methods for the collaboration between governance and operational authorises is needed.
Rademaker will give a presentation on “Protecting the seas: is offshore energy part of the solution?”, followed by a panel discussion with Mr Thomas Hornum Jeppesen, Manager Security Sales, Terma A/S, Mr Marc Doorduin, Commercial Director, MSGusto, and a speaker from Fugro, Maritime Security & Surveillance (TBC).
About the 5th Anniversary Kuressaare Offshore Wind Conference
Offshore wind is in an adjustment phase: financing conditions have tightened and risks are being reassessed which makes regional collaboration, political leadership and long-term vision even more crucial. At the same time, the demand for clean local energy generation and stronger maritime situational awareness has grown. This was also reflected through encouraging signals from the North Sea Summit in Hamburg in January 2026, where leaders and energy ministers renewed their commitment to speed up stable, secure and affordable offshore energy production. This underlines that offshore wind remains a strategic priority at the highest level in Europe and it is why discussions in the Baltic States and Estonia remain timely. Offshore wind can strengthen energy security and help balance the energy trilemma in the Baltic region by bringing affordability, resilience and sustainability closer together.
In 2026, the program in Kuressaare will focus on three key topics: affordability and financing of offshore wind, the role of offshore wind in the future Baltic energy mix and on what offshore infrastructure can contribute to maritime security. Next to that, we aim to bring you the latest overview of developments at both the European and the regional level. As always in Kuressaare, we´ll keep the discussions open and the Chatham House Rule will be followed with no recordings nor streaming online.
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