A Wageningen Marine Research study conducted around the Gemini Offshore Wind Farm north of the Dutch isle of Schiermonnikoog, shows that razorbills and guillemots avoid wind farms in the North Sea in their flight path. The study used a new...
During a biodiversity monitoring in the offshore wind farm Borssele, the orange pistol shrimp was found in a sample. This is a species of shrimp not previously found in Dutch waters. In wind farm Borssele, The Rich North Sea (De...
A new consortium of some of Europe’s leading ecological consultancies with extensive expertise in wind and solar energy development and its impacts on wildlife, including Waardenburg Ecology and its subsidiary BESE from the Netherlands, has been formed with the aim...
In the Dutch IJsselmeer lake, northeast of Lelystad, stands the nearshore part of the new Windplanblauw wind farm. Ballast Nedam, as contractor involved in the construction of the 24 new wind turbines in the IJsselmeer, explains what was involved in...
GBM Works has been awarded a contract by Ecowende to demonstrate its noise reducing technology, the Vibrojet®, to install monopiles in three selected locations in the Hollandse Kust West VI offshore wind farm. GBM’s innovative technique is based on the...
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) announced last week that it has received several applications for both permits to build a wind farm on sites Alpha and Beta in the IJmuiden Ver Wind Farm Zone in the Dutch North Sea. After...
Ecowende, a joint venture of Eneco and Shell, is teaming up with Dutch companies Robin Radar Systems, MIDO and DHI for its 760 MW Hollandse Kust West VI Offshore Wind Farm. Together, they will implement the most advanced framework for...
Ørsted and Van Oord, through their initiative Ocean Health, will install innovative droppable oyster structures to introduce European flat oyster and enhance biodiversity in offshore wind farm Borssele 1&2, using a new innovative installation method. The new installation method will...
TenneT, in collaboration with contractor Equans/Smulders, has placed several artificial reefs near the offshore transformer platform Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) to gain further knowledge about nature-inclusive construction. This offshore transformer platform will connect the Ecowende (Shell/Eneco) consortium wind farm to...
Pension fund ABP, SSE Renewables, and Naturalis Biodiversity Center have signed an agreement to work on biodiversity at sea. ABP and SSE Renewables, together with APG pension investor, are participating in the tender for wind energy area IJmuiden Ver through...
