Oceans of Energy

🌍 Happy #EarthDay from Oceans of Energy!🌞 As we continue our journey towards a sustainable energy future, it's crucial to recognize the interconnectedness between renewable energy and our planet's ecosystems. 🌊 #OffshoreSolar technology offers more than just renewable energy: it presents an opportunity to positively impact marine ecosystems. Over the next few months, we're excited to share insights into how offshore solar systems can contribute to enhancing biodiversity and supporting marine life. Let's celebrate #EarthDay by reaffirming our commitment to deliver abundant and affordable clean energy to the world. Stay tuned for updates on our journey towards a greener future!   #RenewableEnergy #OffshoreSolar #EnergyTransition #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #SolarPower #EcoFriendly #EarthDay2024

Hello from Oslo! This week we participated in one of the final sessions on shaping the new #guidelines for floating solar at DNV's office in Hovik Oslo. These first guidelines in the world mark a significant milestone, being the world’s first to also focus on  #offshoresolar. With the vast potential of offshore solar on the horizon, there’s a pressing need for such standards. Oceans of Energy is proud to be part of this #JointIndustryProject, contributing to the development of new guidelines for anchoring, mooring and floats for floating (and offshore) solar. If you're interested in learning more about our quest reach out to Fabian Koppes and Laura Colomer.   📖Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eDRTTRim  #guidelines #offshoresolar #renewableenergy #energytransition

Oceans of Energy onderzoekt in een consortium de opschaling van zon op zee. Doel is te komen tot een standaard zonnepark van een vierkante kilometer en 150 MW. In 2028 moet het eerste exemplaar geplaatst worden.

#OffshoreSolar scaling up to #Gigawatts!   Oceans of Energy together with fifteen leading European partners announce the start of an EU #JointIndustryProject, in which #offshoresolar technology is scaled up to standard formats of 150 MW enabling to build #GigawattScale farms. These building blocks are to become a new standard in offshore energy farms. Placing solar farms within offshore wind farms makes better use of the sea space, increases energy output, provides more continuous power over the seasons, and will drive down costs for green electricity production and the energy system.   “Oceans of Energy is proud to advance offshore solar further towards a real #gamechanger in the renewable energy transition, by bringing these standardized, large scale offshore solar farms to the world,” says Allard van Hoeken, Founder and CEO of Oceans of Energy. He continues: “Offshore solar is becoming a major contributor to the energy transition in the North Sea. We are kickstarting the development of a standardized offshore solar building block, which fits right in-between four offshore wind turbines. This allows for optimized #MultiSourceOffshoreEnergy farms without competing for scarce and limited land space.”.   Oceans of Energy is a pioneer in offshore solar, the company deployed the first in the world offshore solar farm for high waves in the rough Dutch North Sea in 2019. The company is building the first offshore solar farm to be installed within the Shell/Eneco Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm in the #NorthSea. Its mission is to bring clean and abundant renewable energy in harmony with nature to people living along the coasts worldwide.   “This project will contribute to enable feasible business cases of solar renewable energy offshore”, states Andrea Bombardi, Carbon Reduction Excellence Executive Vice President of RINA. “RINA, thanks to the leading experience in the provision of energy yield assessment services for solar plants and in floating offshore systems, will pioneer the development of a new predictive yield model applicable to this emerging technology. We will bring to the project our competence in ground-native solutions offshore, in static and dynamic analysis on dynamic export cables, in comparative analysis between different power export layouts, in the definition of recycling strategies for PVs and electrical components at the end of their life, and in the coordination of EU-funded projects.” The BAMBOO Project, funded by CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency, had a successful kick-off meeting Campusatsea. We are very excited to work with these celebrated partners to jointly scale up offshore solar! RINA, Pauwels Transformers, Solarge, TKF (BV Twentsche Kabelfabriek), SolarCleano, Aquatera Ltd, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Fraunhofer CSP, MARIN (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands), Sirris | Innovation forward, WavEC - Offshore Renewables, European Marine Board IVZW, Vattenfall.

"Offshore wind achieved great things, and now #OffshoreSolar is about to do the same." states Allard van Hoeken: "There was a great announcement at #HollandseKustNoord that Oceans of Energy will build the #first solar park there. Another highlight was Rob Jetten saying "Let’s make sure the innovations used for CrossWindHKN become the starting point for all future wind parks."."    Last week, the celebration of the operational opening of windfarm #HollandseKustNoord marked a significant milestone for the completion of the #RoadmapWindopZee2023. Our partner CrossWindHKN, grid operator TenneT, and Ministry of Economics and Climate, made this nice #wrapup of the event including an interview with Oceans of Energy Founder and CEO Allard van Hoeken.     This collaborative effort between wind and solar represents a harmonious blend, and we at Oceans of Energy are honored to contribute with the first offshore solar farm integrated in an offshore wind project. Here is to the success of #HollandseKustNoord, the prosperity of CrossWindHKN and the bright future of combined offshore wind and solar energy! 💨☀️     #RoadmapWindofZee2023 #CrossWind #HollandseKustNoord #wind&solar #offshoresolar #offshorewind #renewableenergy #energytransition 

Eén jaar Platform Offshore Solar (POS)! Deze maand vieren we het éénjarig bestaan van Platform Offshore Solar (POS), een samenwerkingsverband tussen Nederlandse offshore zonne-energie technologie-ontwikkelaars (Bluewater Energy Services, Oceans of Energy, SolarDuck) en TNO. Wat is er gebeurd in het afgelopen jaar? -     Het installeren van offshore zonne-energie capaciteit is een criterium geworden bij de offshore wind tender voor IJmuiden Ver en daarmee belangrijk voor het verkrijgen van exploitatievergunningen van offshore wind kavels; -     De Nederlandse overheid onderzoekt actief de mogelijkheid om rond 2030 3GWp zon-op-zee te realiseren; -     Vanuit het Klimaatfonds is een substantieel budget gealloceerd voor onderzoek en demo’s van offshore solar. POS positioneert zich als een gesprekspartner namens deze groeiende Nederlandse sector. We willen bijdragen aan de verdere ontwikkeling en uitrol van zonne-energie op zee en de interactie met mens en natuur. Dit houdt onder andere in het samen met de overheid aanjagen van een zon-op-zee innovatie roadmap, het wegnemen van belemmeringen in wet- en regelgeving, het benadrukken van de noodzaak voor het integraal ontwerpen van een toekomstbestendig energie-exportsysteem, tijdelijk additionele financiële instrumenten en uiteraard het gezamenlijk werken aan onderwerpen als milieu-effecten, maatschappelijke acceptatie en integratie-kansen binnen windparken. We zijn blij met de statements vanuit het Ministry of Economics and Climate (Ezk) op het Zon op Water congres van 10 januari: “Zon-op-zee kan de Nederlandse energietransitie versnellen, zorgt voor een betere benutting van de bestaande infrastructuur en meer continue levering van elektriciteit, heeft een grote exportpotentie en kan eventueel als back-up dienen voor wind-op-zee indien ecologie daarvoor beperkend blijkt te zijn”. Platform Offshore Solar zal ook in 2024 weer samen optrekken, natuurlijk met een uitgestoken hand naar de offshore sector en de overheid. Alleen door samen te werken kan offshore solar het succes worden dat Nederland verdient! #POSAnniversary #OffshoreSolar #RenewableEnergy #CollaborationInnovation #energytransition

Today we celebrate the United Nations International Day of Clean Energy! ☀️    On this day, we reflect on the importance of providing the world with clean and abundant energy, and the role Oceans of Energy is playing in meeting renewable energy demand now and in the future.     In support of that, we are looking back at a successful event last Tuesday, hosted by WWF European Policy Office: ‘Expanding EU Renewable Energy in a Nature Friendly way’. Many insights were gained, and meaningful discussions took place on sustainable practices in the offshore energy industry. We met with policymakers, market leaders and environmental experts. The event underscored the significance of collaboration, legislation, enforcement and integration of nature enhancing designs.     We’d like to extend a big thank you to WWF for fostering dialogue on blue and green policies in this industry. We look forward to seeing the positive impact of these discussions on our sustainable future.     In the light of International Day of Clean Energy, our team at Oceans of Energy continues to strive to power a greener and more sustainably charged future 🌱⚡️  #internationaldayofcleanenergy #UN #WWFeurope #SustainableEnergy #BlueEconomy #EUconference #offshoresolar #renewableenergy #energytransition 

Allard van Hoeken, Founder and CEO of Oceans of Energy, expects the #floatingsolar market to be really big, as big as the #onshoresolar sector. At #OEEC2023, Van Hoeken stated that floating solar is an “offshore engineer’s dream”, maintenance will be much lower than in #offshorewind, there are no moving parts, and monitoring and maintenance technologies will be different since they can be done much more remotely. ⬇️Watch the full session on multi-source #offshoreenergy parks, also featuring speakers from DMEC (Dutch Marine Energy Centre), SolarDuck, FLASC B.V. and The North Sea Foundation (Stichting De Noordzee): #marineenergy #renewableenergy #renewables #solarenergy

We are happy to share our recently released peer-reviewed publication on the marine growth that was sampled and analyzed by Wageningen Marine Research on world's first offshore solar farm in high waves, installed in the North Sea in 2019 by Oceans of Energy.  In this paper we report on the temporal colonization patterns and community changes of the fauna growing on the bottom of our floaters that were treated with various eco-friendly anti-fouling techniques. Even though the fouling communities had not yet reached their final successional stage by the time of the last sampling event, we can be reasonably sure to conclude that there were no significant differences in the antifouling tests. All floaters saw an increase in species richness, and, during our regular inspections we also observed an increase in the presence of fish, being attracted by the floating reef that was being formed! We soon realized this floating reef effect could be an opportunity, as the marine growth was - and still is - not jeopardizing the structural integrity of our floaters.     This pioneering research has solidified our belief that our design provides an exciting nature-enhancing opportunity for the local ecosystem. Our environmental research team is determined to keep monitoring and quantifying these effects in the coming years.  We thank Wageningen Marine Research for their long-lasting partnership and excellent scientific work and give special thanks to Joop Coolen, Ninon Mavraki and Oscar Bos for their pioneering mindset and help out in the field!  Link to publication 👇  https://lnkd.in/e58ndsqm Photo taken by Oscar Bos: Joop Coolen sampling the underside of one of the floaters of Oceans of Energy #offshoresolar, #naturepositive #collaboration #northsea #energytransition #environmentalresearch

We are excited to share the "#BestPracticeGuidelines for #FloatingPV report by SolarPower Europe ☀️🌊   This comprehensive guide responds to intertwined climate, energy, and water scarcity challenges while addressing land competition. In response, the industry's turning towards the efficiency of inland and #offshore floating solar. This collaboration of 30+ experts has set a gold standard for high-quality #floating solar projects 🏅.   With a dedicated chapter on #offshoresolar, this report highlights the potential showcased by Oceans of Energy projects like #NorthSeaTwo, EU-SCORES, and #HKN1 CrossWindHKN. It's a testament to industry collaboration fostering extensive insights on implementation possibilities.   Now, the next important step is - Urging policymakers and markets to amplify this momentum for #offshoresolar. Oceans of Energy stands ready for large-scale deployment, aiming for #3GWby2030 💪   Let's drive the future of renewable energy together! Link in original post 👇 https://lnkd.in/eZ-DsQGU #offshoresolar #industrycollaboration #SolarPowerEurope