Netherlands Enterprise Agency wishes to know what is needed, in terms of ecological site investigations, to set up a good offshore wind farm tender and reduce risks. It is starting a market consultation for this purpose. Anyone wishing to state...
Alfen, an energy solutions specialist in Europe, is to build one of the first large scale 4-hour battery energy storage systems in the Netherlands. The company has signed an agreement with FlevoBESS for this purpose. Alfen will supply a system...
Kitepower, a pioneering Dutch company in airborne wind energy (AWE), and Beyond the Sea, a French startup specialising in marine propulsion systems, are launching a new, ambitious project aimed at revolutionising kite design, simulation, characterisation, and control. Following the success...
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 2023, renewable energy accounted for 17 percent of gross national energy consumption in the Netherlands. That was up from 15 percent in 2022. The increase was mainly due to higher consumption of wind and solar energy. This is according...
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered the third in an order of three Fast Crew Suppliers (FCS) 2710 Hybrids to Purus. The latest delivery, Lowestoft, joins recently delivered sister vessels Tenby and Padstow. Purus has the ambition to operate the most...
Independent European private equity firm InfraVia Capital Partners (InfraVia) has acquired a majority shareholding in GIGA Storage, a Dutch player in Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) development, construction, and operations in the Netherlands and Belgium. Through this partnership, the companies...
Results of initial studies into the possibility of wind turbines in locations managed by the Dutch national Goverment along the A28 highway and the Leusderheide and Vlasakkers defense sites show that configurations that meet noise and shadow standards are possible...
In 2023, 48 percent of electricity in the Netherlands was generated from renewable sources, an increase of 21 percent compared with the previous year. Production of electricity from wind energy increased by over a third. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this...
Seaway7, Jan De Nul Group and ZonUnie are joining the IRBC Agreement for the Renewable Energy Sector. In the agreement, solar and wind energy companies, trade unions, NGOs and the Dutch government work together with the aim of promoting international...
