The aim of the study “Wind Resource Assessment” by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency was to assess the wind resource at the IJVWFZ which may inform future development in offshore wind in the wind farm zone (WFZ).
The assessment of the wind resource across the IJmuiden Ver Wind Farm Zone (IJVWFZ, Project site) was performed, situated approximately 62 km from the west mainland coast of the Netherlands. This work was undertaken by OWC and partners, which included ProPlanEn, ArcVera, and Innosea. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate has assigned the IJVWFZ as a designated wind farm area. This site can be found in the Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone on the Dutch shelf in the North Sea.
The goal of the study was to evaluate the wind resource within the IJVWFZ, providing insight into potential future investments in offshore wind development. The work primarily focused on creating a unified wind dataset for both wind resource assessment and metocean analysis. The developed mesoscale model, Unified-WRF, served this purpose. Analysis of the long-term ambient wind conditions for the development area was conducted on behalf of RVO.
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