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Pioneering SME: Periplus

Marine Performance Systems is the winner of the Offshore Wind Innovation Challenge 2019. This company has found a solution for noise reduction during piling. For an interested audience their presentation convinced the jury the most. The three other finalists were Arc Marine, Witteveen & Bos and Tribosonics.

On November 21, InnovatieLink successfully brought innovative entrepreneurs in the energy sector in contact with investors. Six companies were selected for corporate finance for this InvestorDay. There were around 25 investors in the room who showed a lot of interest. Serious follow-up agreements have been made.

A jury of experts has nominated three companies for the Offshore Wind Innovation Award 2019. On December 11 the entrepreneurs of MO4, Seaqualize and Amphibious Energy will present themselves for representatives of the wind industry during the Q-meeting of Van Oord and SiemensGamesa.

GE Renewable Energy announced today that its Haliade-X 12 MW prototype, the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine, located in Rotterdam-Maasvlakte, has successfully produced its first kWh. Local teams will now proceed with the testing phase, during which GE will perform different types of measurements to obtain a Type Certificate for the Haliade-X in 2020.

Companies and knowledge institutes that visited the Topsector Energie Werkconferentie on 31 October 2019 can find the presentations given during the work sessions of TKI Wind op Zee and TKI Urban Energy here.

2020 is the start of our Multi-annual Mission-driven Innovation Program (MMIP) for offshore renewable energy. This MMIP includes funding possibilities for R&D and Innovation projects.

Pioneering SME: MO4

When founding, CAREER's goal was to make itself redundant as soon as possible. In the intervening period, CAREER has acted as a connector and driver for putting education, business and employment issues on the agenda for education and business.

On Wednesday, October 9th,  The Netherlands' Long-Term Offshore Wind R&D Agenda was presented at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference in the RAI in Amsterdam.