Webinar: Enhancing marine life around the subsea electricity grids in the Dutch North Sea

RGI and the Offshore Coalition for Energy and Nature's (OCEaN) second webinar in the Nature Inclusive Design series featured speakers from The Rich North Sea programme and TenneT, the transmission system operator in the Netherlands. In this webinar, they outlined recent examples of Nature Inclusive Design measures in the Netherlands’ marine space, the challenges faced, and the opportunities they foresee for offshore wind energy and grid infrastructure to enhance ecosystems.
  • Webinar: Enhancing marine life around the subsea electricity grids in the Dutch North Sea
  • 2023-01-26T15:00:00+01:00
  • 2023-01-26T16:30:00+01:00
  • RGI and the Offshore Coalition for Energy and Nature's (OCEaN) second webinar in the Nature Inclusive Design series featured speakers from The Rich North Sea programme and TenneT, the transmission system operator in the Netherlands. In this webinar, they outlined recent examples of Nature Inclusive Design measures in the Netherlands’ marine space, the challenges faced, and the opportunities they foresee for offshore wind energy and grid infrastructure to enhance ecosystems.
  • When Jan 26, 2023 from 03:00 PM to 04:30 PM (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
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20231101 NID webinar poster final.pngProperly planned roll-out of offshore wind and supporting grid infrastructure can provide opportunities to sustain the protection and restoration of nature in European seas. One way to achieve this is by integrating innovative solutions such as Nature Inclusive Design (NID) alongside offshore renewable energy infrastructure. NID are measures integrated in or added to the design of infrastructure which attempt to minimise risks and increase ecological opportunities by providing direct and indirect positive effects on biodiversity.

With this in mind, in 2022 OCEaN and the Renewables Grid Initiative launched a webinar series on Nature Inclusive Design applied in offshore energy and grid infrastructure for nature-positive outcomes. See previous webinars here. Our second webinar dove into recent NID measures applied in the Dutch North Sea and featured speakers from The Rich North Sea programme (a collaborative programme between The North Sea Foundation and Natuur & Milieu) and TenneT, the transmission system operator in the Netherlands.

On 26 January, Eline van Onselen (Marine ecologist at The Rich North Sea) and Annemiek Hermans (Marine ecologist at TenneT) outlined recent examples of NID measures in the Netherlands’ marine space (e.g., fish hotels and eco-scours), the challenges faced, and the opportunities they foresee for offshore wind energy and grid infrastructure to enhance ecosystems. In this 1.5-hour webinar, the speakers provided an overview of their unique experience and then opened the floor to take questions and comments from participants. See more details in the agenda below or watching the recording here.

Stay tuned for the next webinar in this series, where we will look at lessons learned from other European countries. In case of questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Roland Lleshi, Project Manager – Offshore Energy and Nature.

Recording

Agenda

15:00-15:10

Welcome

  • Cristina Simioli | Programme Manager Offshore Energy and Nature, Renewables Grid Initiative

15:10-15:30

Presentation from The Rich North Sea

Lessons from three years in the field - nature enhancement in offshore wind farms

  • Eline van Onselen | Marine Ecologist at The Rich North Sea Programme (The North Sea Foundation and Natuur & Milieu)

15:30-15:50

Presentation from TenneT

Designing Nature-inclusive measures for a rapidly expanding Offshore Grid

  • Annemiek Hermans | Marine ecologist at TenneT
15:50-16:30

Q&A

  • Discussion and questions from webinar participants

Webinar Presentations

Eline van Onselen, Marine Ecologist | The Rich North Sea Programme

Annemiek Hermans, Marine ecologist | TenneT

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