Fugro has been commissioned by the government of Curaçao to carry out a geophysical survey of the seabed in the waters around Curaçao as part of an exploration of wind power generation opportunities. Fugro starts the survey today and is...
OneSea Energy B.V., in collaboration with Subsea7, will investigate the technical feasibility and commercial value of coupling a large-scale floating hydrogen production system with a floating wind farm offshore Scotland. OneSea Energy, a Delft – based provider of green hydrogen...
An international team of researchers, including Johan van der Molen and Katherina Alter of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), will be investigating potential chemical contamination with dissolved and particulate pollutants from wind turbines. Several research projects on...
The EU has recognized the research proposal MERIDIONAL, which was developed by a group of 12 academic and industry partners. The project’s goal is to improve our understanding of high-altitude wind currents in order to promote the use of airborne...
Energy company Vattenfall has joined the GROW joint research program in offshore wind. Here a consortium of offshore wind industry and research partners initiate research and accelerate the innovations that are needed for the transition of the energy system. GROW...
The province of Groningen and energy company RWE are having one blade on each of seven wind turbines in the onshore wind farm Eemshaven painted black. Research will show whether this can reduce the bird mortality rate. They are doing...
A Dutch-Spanish consortium consisting of Pontis Engineering, Twenco and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, kicked-off the joint UP-WELD project seeking to demonstrate the welding of thermoplastic structures of more than 100 meters long and the feasibility of recyclable blades. New developments...
Due to the large demand for offshore wind in the future, component production, including the blades, needs to increase significantly. A consortium in Denmark has kicked-off research project AIOLOS, which aims to optimize factory output at low cost. Dutch Pontis...
Offshore wind plays an important role to achieve CO2-neutral electricity production by 2050 in the Netherlands. In 2030, the Netherlands has the ambition, outlined in the Roadmap 2030, to have 11.5 GW offshore wind installed. The roll-out of offshore wind...
A consortium of research company TNO, Heliox, Zwanendal and solar energy producers Vattenfall and Solarfields are investigating the effects of turbine shade, in particular those caused by the blades, on the energy yield of solar parks. The research project will...
