NWEA has launched a new name: NedZero. With the new name, the Dutch wind energy association expresses the committment of the wind sector to a CO2-free energy system. Jan Vos, chairman of NedZero: ‘Our new name fits the enormous development...
The 2023 edition of the Open Energy Day (Open Energiedag) event attracted more than 7,000 visitors last Saturday. Over 60 sustainable energy projects, spread across the Netherlands, opened their doors to let citizens learn about their project. Over 60 sustainable...
A group of ten firms has signed a partnership agreement in offshore wind energy, organized by Elro van den Burg and sponsored by the Netherlands Wind Energy Association (NWEA) and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). The Partnership is bringing Dutch...
TotalEnergies is collaborating with Dutch institutions, including NWEA, DMEC, and SIMOX, to assist its offshore wind plans in the Netherlands. Together, the Netherlands Wind Energy Association (NWEA) and TotalEnergies will push for greater use of wind power in the Netherlands,...
For wind turbines higher than 150 metres, red lights are switched on at night. This lighting is required by law for the safety of air traffic but is an eyesore for local residents. The wind sector and the Dutch government...
At the moment there is no good system in place for sharing the lessons learned from incidents between the different companies in the wind sector in the Netherlands. During a first session on safety by the Dutch wind energy association...
Yesterday, 2 October 2020, Invest-NL CEO Wouter Bos handed over the new report ‘Financing offshore wind’ to Ed Nijpels, chairman of the Climate Agreement Progress Meeting (Voortgangsoverleg Klimaatakkoord). Invest-NL is positive about the long-term offer of financing for offshore wind....
While at the moment the draft Regional Energy Strategies (RES) are being drawn, the Dutch wind energy association NWEA warns for a potentially wrong choice of wind turbine to base calculations on. According to the wind energy association it has...
The Dutch associations NVDE and Energie-Nederland have presented an action plan to further reduce the cost of electricity generated by wind and solar farms in the Netherlands. The associations worked together with companies from the wind sector, united in NWEA, the Dutch wind energy association, and the...
With less than 4 GW of installed onshore wind capacity reached at the end of 2019, the Netherlands is still quite far removed from the 2020 target of 6 GW set by the Government in the Energy Agreement (Energieakkoord) in...
