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ECN’s integrated approach to offshore wind farms in seven research lines

Our partners

Support structures Optimisation of wind power stations Electrical infrastructure and connection to the electricity grid

Transport, installation and logistics Operations and maintenance Facilities and experiments

Design of innovative turbines ...

Reduce costs of offshore wind energy

Support industry with state-of-the-artwind farm services

Make Dutch industry more competitive through innovations

Wind turbine developers

Developers and operators of offshore wind farms

Installation and maintenance companies and suppliers

Knowledge institutes

Development of future-proof offshore electricity grids

Improvement of support structures through an integrated approach

... and the layout of wind farms

Evaluation and identification of innovative installation concepts

Monitoring and prediction of damage to turbines

Optimisation of the plan and strategy for wind farm installation

Development of advanced wind farm simulation services that reduce maintenance costs and improve performance

Provision of research facilities such as:

Optimal controllers for wind turbines and wind farms

Monitoring of the support structures

Development of novel concepts such as floating offshore wind turbines

Research focused on the social and spatialintegration of offshore wind

2010 2020

40%

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WIND ENERGY

Wind supply measurement and yield calculations for wind farms

Optimisation of the strategy for the maintenance and management of offshore wind farms

Offshoremeasurement stations

LiDAR calibration

Our goals

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Offshore wind and the environment

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