Offshore wind resource in the Dutch North Sea 2022: developing a long-term measurement campaign and understanding wind conditions
report
The Netherlands has set clear ambitions to accelerate the energy transition. By 2050 all energy used in the country shall come from sustainable sources and offshore wind energy plays a vital role in the transition to a carbon-free energy supply. The government has defined a roadmap for the Dutch offshore wind portfolio aiming to add 4.5 GW by 2023 in a first phase, to further expand to 21.5 GW by 2030 . The Netherlands is moving ahead with yearly tendering rounds for upcoming development areas. To further meet the revised European frameworks for 2050, in May 2022 the Netherlands has signed the Esbjerg Offshore Wind Declaration and in April 2023 the Ostend declaration, together with other European countries to reach offshore wind capacity of about 120 GW by 2030 in the North Seas and at least 300MW by 2050. TNO performs for The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy measurement campaigns in the North Sea since 2014 at different strategically chosen locations. Currently, the locations of the measurements are Lichteiland Goeree platform (LEG), Europlatform (EPL) and Wintershall Noordzee B.V. platform K13a, under the program “Wind op Zee”. Besides the currently available locations TNO also hosts data from previous locations like offshore Meteorological Mast IJmuiden (MMIJ) and the offshore Meteorological Mast OWEZ (Offshore Wind Farm Egmond aan Zee). This report presents a series of analyses that provide insight into the correlations, long-term wind speed predictions, and other use cases that leverage both the on-site LiDAR data across the LEG, EPL, and K13a platforms in the Dutch North Sea for the period 2014-2022, and different reanalysis and modelled data from wind atlases, namely DOWA, KNW, and ERA5.
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TNO Identifier
984399
Publisher
TNO
Collation
36 p.
Place of publication
Petten