Today, the new 2020 subsidy scheme MOOI, Mission-driven Research, Development and Innovation, was officially announced in the Dutch Staatscourant. The new scheme, with a budget of 65 million Euro, is offered by Topsector Energie and the TKI Wind op Zee organisations, together with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). The MOOI subsidy scheme supports integral solutions that…
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) has granted Fugro a geotechnical site investigation contract for the 700 MW Ten Noorden van de Waddeneilanden Wind Farm Zone. The activities will take place from February to May this year. The Ten Noorden van de Waddeneilanden (North of the Wadden Islands) Wind Farm Zone is located 46 nautical miles off…
On 14 November the SDE+ round of applications for autumn 2019 was closed. RVO.nl (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) received 7,525 applications for subsidies of which 113 were received for wind energy projects. The SDE+ round of applications for autumn 2019 ran from 9 AM on 29 October to 5 PM on 14 November. The total value of…
The autumn 2019 Stimulation of Sustainable Energy Production (SDE+) subsidy application round will start on 29 October. According to RVO.nl, a budget of 5 billion euro is made available for this autumn round. The SDE+ round of applications for autumn 2019 runs from 9 AM on 29 October to 5 PM on 14 November. The…
On Wednesday, 10 July, at the Netherlands Offshore Wind Q-meeting, TKI Wind op Zee presented the new report on employment in the Dutch offshore wind industry. The report provides insight into the number of people and the competences that are required to sucessfully enroll offshore wind in Dutch waters up to 2023. The objective of the…
Today, 10 July, RVO.nl (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) announced the winner of the tender for the 760 MW Hollandse Kust (zuid) 3 & 4 offshore wind development site. It will be the second subsidy-free offshore wind farm to be built in Dutch waters. In March 2018, the Swedish company also won the permit for the subsidy-free…
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy will announce the winner of the Hollandse Kust (zuid) 3 & 4 wind farm zone sites next Wednesday, July 10, at 6PM (CET). Four interested parties submitted their bids in the subsidy-free tender for the two offshore wind zone sites, which closed in March of this year.…
During the SDE+ Spring 2019 subsidy application round, RVO.nl received applications for 43 wind energy projects with a combined power of 143 MW. The total subsidy claim for these projects is 309 million Euro. Interested parties could submit their applications for subsidies between March 12 and April 4. RVO.nl received applications for a total of…
The subsidy-free tender for the offshore wind farm sites Hollandse Kust (Zuid) 3 & 4 has closed. RVO.nl reported that four parties have submitted their bids, the same number as previously seen with the first subsidy-free offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (Zuid) 1 & 2, which was won by Swedish developer Vattenfall. Vattenfall, Ørsted and…
Fugro will perform a geotechnical site characterisation programme for the 1,400 MW Hollandse Kust (west) Wind Farm Zone, 51 km off the west coast of the Netherlands. The geo-data specialist was awarded the contract following a tender by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy). Contract finalisation is expected soon. The…
