TU Delft is launching the Floating Renewables Lab, a lab facility that will use numerical models and artificial intelligence to connect all elements of the development chain for floating wind turbines and other offshore renewables. According to the European Commission,...
The Dutch research organisation TNO is collaborating with Politeknik Negeri Bali (PNB), an Indonesian institution for vocational training, to create a ‘Renewable Energy Training Centre Indonesia’ (RETC). The RETC addresses one of today’s major challenges: a lack of renewable energy...
On Wednesday 15 December, the new coalition agreement was presented. One of the pledges made by the new four-party coalition of D66, VVD, CDA and ChristenUnie is to fight climate change. A budget of 35 billion euros will be made...
A preliminary result shows that €12 billion worth of subsidy has been applied for in the 2021 opening round of the Stimulation of Sustainable Energy Production and Climate Transition (SDE++) subsidy scheme. The available budget is €5 billion. This means...
The electricity production from renewable sources in 2020 amounted to 31 billion kilowatt hours (kWh). This is an increase of 40% compared to 2019. Of the total renewable electricity produced, the largest part was generated with wind turbines, 45%. This...
The annual monitoring of the Gelderland Energieakkoord (GEA) shows that the use of renewable energy sources in the province of Gelderland is going well. However, due to a growth in energy consumption, the reduction of greenhouse gases is behind the...
Last month showed a record in the production of wind energy in the Netherlands. This is evident from the monthly figures of Energieopwek.nl. The record high production is caused by the addition of new wind turbines to the grid and...
The Dutch government and industry should take action to keep a healthy business case for offshore wind energy in the future. According to the research ‘The Offshore Wind Business Case and Supporting Intervention’, an inbalance in renewable electricity demand and...
February storms like Dennis and Ciara have contributed to a record in wind energy production in February 2020 in the Netherlands. According to Energieopwek.nl, an average of over 3.6 GW of wind energy was produced daily in the Netherlands. Onshore...
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...
