Vattenfall and its companions within the WIN@sea mission are making ready to reap the primary seaweed grown on the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in Denmark. After the harvest, scheduled for this Spring, the seaweed can be analysed for its high quality as a foodstuff.
Win@Sea, together with Vattenfall, Aarhus College, the Danish Technological College, the College of Copenhagen, the seaweed and mussel producer Kerteminde Seafarm, and the Kattegat Centre, introduced plans to analyze learn how to produce offshore wind energy and sustainable meals in March 2023.
The mission companions planted the seaweed in Autumn 2023 and this yr, moreover harvesting the seaweed, the group will even be setting strains for rising mussels.
The WIN@sea group additionally plans to carry out an in-depth evaluation of cod shares within the space in and across the offshore wind farm. After the summer time holidays, a number of leisure fishermen and researchers will enterprise out to the offshore wind farm, the place they’ll depend, measure and weigh a part of the cod shares within the space of the wind farm, in keeping with Vattenfall.
“In Vattenfall we’re working for fossil freedom, however not on the expense of biodiversity. That’s why we’re working to discover a method for our vitality installations for use for greater than fossil-free vitality era alone. There’s untapped potential within the areas between the offshore wind farms, and we’re happy to be studying a lot about how we are able to activate these areas to assist promote and protect biodiversity,” mentioned Tim Wilms, Bioscience Knowledgeable at Vattenfall.
The corporate’s Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm is situated within the Danish Baltic Sea, between 15 and 40 kilometres from the coast. With 72 Siemens Gamesa’s 8 MW wind generators and an put in capability of 605 MW, it’s at present the most important Scandinavian offshore wind farm.
The wind farm, in operation since 2021, is able to producing sufficient electrical energy to fulfill the annual consumption of 600,000 Danish households.
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