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Presentation Windpark Fryslân by Bart Ummels

23 June 2022

On July 7, 2022, Bart Ummels of Windpark Fryslân will share his lessons learned from developing the …

News item with the spinning geo-centrifuge of GROW partner Deltares

15 June 2022

This geo-centrifuge reaches fifty times the g-forces as experienced in a rollercoaster and is used …

GROW project in the spotlight: Sensor Assisted Wind farm Optimisation

08 June 2022

A smart way to measure the wind field and produce more energy

New partners are joining the SIMOX-project

31 May 2022

Ocean Winds, Ørsted and Vattenfall decided to participate and actively contribute to the project.

New project: Silent Installation of MonoPiLEs IIB (SIMPLE-IIB)

24 May 2022

On May 16, 2022, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) announced that the GROW project SIMPLE-IIB …

Succesful exchange of nacelle lidars halfway through the measurement campaign of SAWOP

20 May 2022

Get a foggy impression!

Install, Load, Repeat

10 May 2022

Meet the team who loves spinning around monopiles and listen to the seventh edition of GROW-to-GO …

FlexH2 starts today

01 April 2022

Our Flexible Offshore Wind Hydrogen Power Plant Module (FlexH2) project starts today. With this …

GROW congratulates associate project partner GBM Works

22 March 2022

GBM Works is the winner of the jury award of the Offshore Wind Innovators Award 2021. The company …

New project to assess co-use options in offshore wind farms (Road2SID)

21 March 2022

The North Sea is one of the most used seas worldwide and home to various functions such as nature, …

Power up!

01 March 2022

Listen to the sixth edition of GROW-to-GO with Jan Coelingh (lead engineer wind resource at …

Vattenfall joins research program in offshore wind GROW

04 February 2022

Vattenfall, one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat has joined the …

"Within 10 years, the slip joint will be the most commonly used connection in the offshore wind industry"

02 February 2022

An interview with Reinder Jorritsma and Robert Hasselaar (DOT) about the SJOR project.

Twist and shake it fast!

01 February 2022

Listen to the fifth edition of GROW-to-GO with Andrei Metrikine, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor, …

Millions of collisions at 300 km/h - Ouch!

21 December 2021

Listen to the fourth edition of GROW-to-GO with Harald van der Mijle Meijer (TNO), and Julie Teuwen …

GROW consortium to start innovation project FlexH2

14 December 2021

A Flexible Offshore Wind Hydrogen Power Plant Module

It’s like connecting steel tubes with duct tape

29 November 2021

Listen to the third edition of GROW-to-GO with Marko Pavlović, assistant professor at TU Delft, and …

Turbine control strategies to mitigate leading-edge erosion reduces O&M costs significantly

18 November 2021

In this way, the lifetime of wind turbine blades is significantly extended.

Wind and salty water: corrosion and fatigue. Not so fast!

09 November 2021

Listen to the second edition of GROW-to-GO with Richard Pijpers and Joke Luyten of TNO.

Listen to the first edition of GROW-to-GO

26 October 2021

A podcast magazine on offshore wind innovation

Gentle Driving of Piles Documentary released

20 September 2021

Get an impression of the development and testing of this new installation technique.

New project to develop a PRecipitation atlas for Offshore Wind blade Erosion Support (PROWESS)

16 September 2021

The life of wind turbine blades is currently greatly shortened by leading-edge erosion. The erosion …

GROW-to-GO

27 July 2021

Follow the podcast about offshore wind innovation

Wrapped composite joint for jacket foundations for offshore wind

29 June 2021

Due to lighter structures and shorter manufacturing time wrapped joints can significantly reduce …

Follow-up project: HyPE-ST 1.2

28 June 2021

Hydraulic Pile Extraction Scale Tests for testing the removal of piles from the soil at the end of …

We innovate: Dynamic Wind Farm Flow Control project launched

15 April 2021

Minimizing wake effects for wind farms by closed-loop active wake steering and novel active wake …

Sustainable and low-cost installation of monopile foundations for future very large wind turbines

02 February 2021

Within 5 years, the GROW research project SIMOX (Sustainable Installation of XXL Monopiles) aims to …

Niels Bijkersma, Program Council member of RWE on the project HyPE-ST

29 September 2020

"We can say that the hydraulic extraction technique works. All important objectives have been …

Monopiles dismantle themselves with water pressure

04 June 2020

At the end of their service life, monopiles used for the foundation of offshore wind turbines can …

Two pre-proposals submitted under MOOI-call

25 May 2020

Monday 18 May was the first deadline for submitting pre-proposals for the MOOI call for tender. …

To develop a proven methodology for the improved design of monopiles under environmental cyclic loading

11 May 2020

The GROW partners Deltares, Eneco, IHC, innogy, Shell, TU Delft, Van Oord and associate partner …

World’s first full-sized submerged Slip Joint successfully installed

25 April 2020

On 25 April, Van Oord installed successfully the first foundation with a Slip Joint at the Borssele …

New project: Bubbles JIP

01 April 2020

To achieve more efficient and effective use of bubble curtains for noise mitigation in offshore …

Project in the spotlight: HyPE-ST

02 March 2020

Sustainable monopile decommissioning, one step closer to circularity

GROW project in the spotlight: Gentle Driving of Piles

24 December 2019

Twist the cork and it becomes thinner

GDP DEMO Day Successful

07 November 2019

On Friday the 1st of November the Gentle Driving of Piles (GDP) project hosted a demonstration day …

Video of successful decommissioning slip joint connection

19 September 2019

After a year of offshore testing, the turbine with the slip joint connection was removed.

After a year of successfully testing the Slip Joint connection, the DOT wind turbine is decommissioned

16 August 2019

With the removal of the DOT wind turbine all phases of this concept’s lifetime are investigated and …

GROW side-event at the WindDays - Foundation Innovation: Presentations are available now

13 June 2019

Did you visit our side event on foundation innovation at the WindDays and do you want to have an …

GROW side-event at the WindDays - Foundation Innovation

15 April 2019

Interested in the developments in offshore wind foundations? Visit the GROW side event at the …

GROW and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy sign collaboration agreement to strengthen innovation in offshore wind energy

22 March 2019

Offshore wind energy is a key technology in the transition of our energy system towards sustainabil…

Innovation doesn’t stop with subsidy-free tenders

22 March 2019

In the coming years, offshore wind energy in the Netherlands will get a big boost. By 2030, the …

First offshore wind turbine using the Slip Joint connection successfully installed

30 September 2018

SJOR project tests innovative connection offshore: ready-to-use installation within an hour.

David de Jager is GROW’s new Director

15 May 2018

As of today David de Jager succeeded Ernst van Zuijlen as Director of GROW.

GROW consortium officially launched at Wind Days 2016

16 June 2016

The GROW consortium was officially launched at the WindDays 2016 conference held in Rotterdam, the …

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