The Netherlands will attain, and exceed, the goal set in its Offshore Wind Vitality Roadmap 2023 by the tip of this yr. The nation’s first offshore wind roadmap, created following the Dutch Vitality Settlement signed ten years in the past, units a purpose of 4.5 GW of put in capability by the tip of 2023 – and the Netherlands is on its solution to having 4.7 GW up and working within the North Sea in December.
The brand new nationwide offshore wind purpose is for 21 GW by 2030, as confirmed within the North Sea Programme 2022-2027. To succeed in this, a fast and cost-effective rollout of large-scale tasks within the subsequent few years is crucial.
“To succeed in 4.5 gigawatts is loads since we solely began engaged on constructing massive offshore wind farms within the North Sea from 2017. Initially, we noticed a decline within the demand for subsidies after which we noticed no demand for subsidies – and that was an actual market change,” stated Peter Lambooij, Advisor Offshore Wind Vitality on the Netherlands Enterprise Company (RVO), a part of the Ministry of Financial Affairs and Local weather Coverage.
“Offshore wind didn’t take off in a significant method till 2015/2016, when the Dutch authorities made modifications and that has led us to the place we’re at the moment. Most significantly, we began to be in control of the location characterisation and in addition modified parts in our tender programs.”
This modified the way in which the builders noticed offshore wind improvement within the Netherlands, particularly as a result of this method additionally helped mitigate the dangers, decrease the prices and create higher market situations, in keeping with Lambooij.
The premise on which the present Dutch method has been constructed is aggressive tendering with a young system open to any offshore wind developer who desires to bid for improvement rights for a selected challenge website. The system has progressed from the way it was designed to start with when the primary necessities revolved round monetary, feasibility and technical standards.
“Ecology and system integration have now grow to be essential components of our offshore wind tenders. Which means that our tender system can be a driver for R&D and innovation and that it pushes each the market and us within the authorities to at all times suppose forward and be a bit like entrepreneurs ourselves,” Peter Lambooij stated.
The Dutch authorities has a really clear coverage and can be very clear on what the necessities are, so there may be not numerous uncertainty from the federal government’s facet and from the laws perspective, Lambooij identified and added that there was additionally a really secure funding local weather within the Netherlands, which contributes to reaching the goal(s).
One of many main elements can be that the offshore grid, for which the transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT is accountable, has been standardised.
Moreover, having an skilled provide chain that transferred the experience from the offshore oil and fuel sector into offshore wind and superior it there introduced a further enhance to the event of offshore wind within the Netherlands, along with the data that comes from the Dutch data establishments, in addition to the SMEs from the provision chain.
What additionally performs an essential function is the collaborative atmosphere that RVO has created, which incorporates the federal government, traders/builders, the provision chain, and the stakeholders.
RVO has established collaborations with all of the market events, commerce organisations, local weather organisations and the general public. With this collaborative method in place, there’s a fixed dialogue that helps the nation obtain offshore wind targets whereas making certain offshore wind farms are being constructed and operated in a method that advantages the general public, the economic system and safeguards the atmosphere as a lot as attainable, in keeping with Peter Lambooij.
The 4.7 GW of offshore wind capability, for which RVO estimates will meet roughly 15.8 per cent of the overall present electrical energy demand within the Netherlands, will likely be reached as soon as the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm is put into operation on the finish of this yr.
The share of offshore wind-generated electrical energy on the Dutch grid is poised to considerably improve over the subsequent many years, with the 2030-2031 goal set at 21 GW and the federal government aiming for 70 GW by 2050.
The targets past 2031 will likely be formally established within the upcoming Nationwide Vitality System Plan, which can element the capacities for offshore wind power in 2035, 2040 and 2050.
RVO will rejoice attaining the goal below the 2023 offshore wind roadmap on the Offshore Vitality Exhibition & Convention (OEEC) on the twenty eighth and twenty ninth of November in Amsterdam.
“Years in the past, we began with a sales space on the Offshore Vitality Exhibition & Convention and our presence has grown over time with the event of offshore wind, each within the Netherlands and worldwide. However this yr is particular. We will likely be celebrating our profitable finalisation of the 2023 offshore wind roadmap at OEEC 2023 in Amsterdam as effectively, the place we can have an summary of what now we have achieved along with the market at our pavilion,” RVO’s Peter Lambooij stated.
