Denmark – A new project called “Win@Sea” by Danish institutions, businesses, and Vattenfall explores if an offshore wind farm can concurrently generate fossil-free electricity, sustainably sourced food, and beneficial biodiversity.
Danish Kriegers Flak, the largest offshore wind farm in Scandinavia, has been made available for the project by Vattenfall. On lines at the offshore wind farm, namely, blue mussels, sugar kelp, sea lettuce, and dulse will be produced. There will also be a lot of monitoring and research operations.
Sharing information
One of the eight work streams for the project will be led by Vattenfall. This relates to operational logistics, safety, and managing the sharing of information between the researchers and the Vattenfall team in charge of running the wind farm on a day-to-day basis.
Aarhus University is in charge of Win@Sea, which runs from 2023 to 2026. Together with Vattenfall, other participants in the project include the Technical University of Denmark, the University of Copenhagen, the Kattegatcenter, and Kerteminde Seafarm. The Horizon Europe project, OLAMUR, has contributed to the project’s funding (Offshore Low-trophic Aquaculture in Multi-Use scenario Realisation).
