RENEWABLE ENERGY


WIND? WHERE NEXT FOR


In an exclusive interview, respected scientist John Olav Tande explores what’s in the pipeline for the offshore wind sector


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n June 8th, 2020, the Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition (OREAC), a group led by offshore wind energy


majors Ørsted and Equinor, announced its plans to install 1,400GW of offshore wind globally by 2050 to drive decarbonisation and a green economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. Norwegian offshore wind expert, John Olav Giæver Tande, describes


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the plan as, “ambitious but absolutely doable”. Currently chief scientist at independent


John Olav Tande, chief scientist at SINTEF


research organisation SINTEF, Tande has been engaged in wind energy research since graduating from NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in 1988, including seven years in Denmark at Risø National Laboratory (now part of DTU wind energy) before joining SINTEF in 1997. He heads up the


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