For the earlier version of the journal, Windpowernl spoke to a number of younger professionals who’re a part of the East Meets West community to listen to their expertise in enjoying a task within the Dutch vitality transition and the significance of data sharing between totally different nationalities. Whereas we launched the community in an earlier article, we are going to now current interviews that have been recorded with particular person members, beginning with Mónica Yus Santana from Spain.
Mónica is initially from Spain the place she did her bachelor on vitality engineering. She needed to achieve some worldwide expertise as she was to learn the way the vitality sector is ready up in different
international locations. When she realized concerning the Grasp Sustainable Vitality Expertise at TU Delft, she determined to maneuver to the Netherlands. Different standards additionally performed a task in her determination. Beside the welcoming perspective in the direction of worldwide college students and the provision of English language schooling, she was drawn to the various developments which can be going down within the Dutch vitality sector.
The Dutch vitality transition gives lots alternatives for younger professionals
With the Netherlands being a small, densely populated nation with a relative excessive electrical energy demand, this brings fascinating challenges alongside that require progressive options. This gives younger professionals loads of alternatives.
She presently works in offshore wind, for Dutch transmission system operator TenneT. In her function as challenge lead for the brand new progressive 2GW HVDC offshore platforms within the Dutch and German North Sea, she will probably be in command of the execution of a few of these initiatives within the Netherlands, along with contractors and different stakeholders.
Spain could be very a lot energetic in renewable vitality, with final yr sourcing round half of the vitality manufacturing from renewable vitality. Much less so in offshore wind however the nation is taking steps into floating wind, extra appropriate for the seabed circumstances there. However for the second, Mónica is glad within the Netherlands the place there are nonetheless many alternatives for her to develop professionally. And though not
collaborating in her house nation straight, she looks like she is doing this not directly, by contributing to the European vitality transition.
One of many variations she will be able to inform is the best way college students within the Netherlands broaden their horizons by collaborating in aspect initiatives, examine associations and networking occasions, but additionally typically by taking a spot yr to work for organisations. In Spanish tradition it’s maybe much less widespread for younger individuals to take part whereas nonetheless learning. The Netherlands additionally supply graduates higher beginning positions. Networking offers the chance to be taught from one another and assist one another in future careers.
Extra consciousness and function fashions wanted
Usually she thinks extra consciousness is required, concerning the significance of younger individuals contributing to the vitality transition, and in addition amongst highschool kids. To sort out the vitality transition, all kinds of profiles are wanted: gender, origin and background. And though she sees an increase in ladies beginning engineering and technical research, there’s nonetheless work to be carried out on this space.
She was fortunate to have had a grandfather as a task mannequin and the assist of her household to pursue this schooling path. Maybe that’s contributing to the low variety of ladies within the vitality transition: the dearth of function fashions. She has one advise to younger individuals contemplating technical research: be courageous and simply do it.
The East Meets West community is an initiative by Vitality Funding Administration. Watch the interview with Mónica under. The interview was carried out by iMarketingBiz by order of Windpowernl.
