BAMBOO Project

🏆 Big news from Ravenna, Italy! Our hybrid offshore solar& wind concept just won the Best Paper for Carbon Neutrality at the OMC Med Energy Conference & Exhibition! 🌊☀️ The paper ‘Hybrid Offshore Solar & Wind Parks in the Mediterranean – Cost Sharings accelerate Business Cases for Offshore Renewable Rollout in Mediterranean’ was presented by Johnny Meit of Oceans of Energy during the Renewables 1 – Solar & Wind session. It was recognized as best paper in one of the four core technical streams: Carbon Neutrality. Authored by Johnny Meit, Aurelio Negri, Lisette van Es and Rian van der Pol Nguyen, the paper was celebrated at the Award Ceremony during the farewell lunch on April 10. Johnny proudly accepted the prize on behalf of the team, with warm applause from fellow BAMBOO Project partners and colleagues from Oceans of Energy and RINA.   🎤 Another BAMBOO paper was also presented at the conference on April 9 in the Innovation session:. ‘Predictive Yield Modelling of Offshore Solar, the next Technological Opportunity to provide Offshore Renewable Energy at Scale’. Authored by Franklin Don Xavier, Mario Mattiauda, Chaira Risi, Natalie Mica and Alessandra Monero (RINA), and jointly presented by Franklin Don Xavier and Alessandra Monero. 🌍 The OMC Med Energy 2025 conference was a fantastic platform to spotlight BAMBOO’s goals and vision for Offshore Solar in the Mediterranean region. #BAMBOOProject #offshoresolar #solarpower #renewableenergy #energytransition #cleanenergy #sustainability 

🐟 🦈 How do offshore solar and wind energy impact marine ecosystems and coastal communities—both positively and negatively? And what critical marine science is still needed to ensure a sustainable future? 🙋Over the past two days, leading European marine and social science experts gathered for the BAMBOO Project workshop, organised and hosted by the European Marine Board IVZW. Together, they explored the potential environmental and societal effects of combining offshore solar and wind energy, brainstorming how these impacts might interact. 📋🔬 They also identified key research gaps – what we still need to study to fully understand these effects and develop sustainable solutions as offshore solar expands across Europe. Stay tuned for insights and recommendations from this important discussion later this year! #BAMBOOProject #offshoresolar #marinescience #socialscience #sustainability #marine #environment #communities 

🎉 Celebrating the Completion of Year One! Reflecting on Our Achievements and Looking Forward to the Future As we wrap up the first year of our ambitious BAMBOO Project, we're excited to celebrate the milestones and progress we've made. From successfully assessing site resources and selecting the perfect location for our 5 MW demonstrator farm to completing key reports such as the ex-ante environmental scoping report, environmental monitoring plan, and project execution plan, our team’s dedication has been crucial in achieving the timely completion of our first milestone: full site preparations.    ☀️ Additionally, the design and engineering of the hybrid offshore array were completed on schedule, allowing us to reach our second milestone — the final design of the 5 MW demonstrator farm with hybrid platform units.    We’re looking forward to the next phase, confident in our innovative approach and the promising potential of this groundbreaking project.    Here’s to a year of remarkable achievements and to many more successes ahead!    ➡️ Please visit our project website to reach out to the public deliverables we have prepared so far https://lnkd.in/e97_Ud-q #BAMBOOProject #offshoresolar #solarpower #renewableenergy #energytransition #cleanenergy #sustainability

🎉Season’s Greetings from the BAMBOO Project Consortium!🎉 As we approach the end of the year, we would like to take a moment to extend our warmest wishes to our partners, collaborators, and supporters. ⭐Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a prosperous new year ahead!🎄   #BAMBOOProject #offshoresolar #solarpower #renewableenergy #energytransition #cleanenergy #sustainability

📢 BAMBOO, with partners Oceans of Energy and Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics CSP, are cited in a news article of the German business newspaper Handelsblatt. "Hybrid (here PV+wind) energy systems ensure higher “off-shore" grid utilization, which reduces costs” is stated by Bengt Jäckel, from Fraunhofer CSP. The technology has its highest potential when integrated within wind parks. Then, the electrical infrastructure – transformers, submarine cables, on- and offshore electrical lines – would already be in place, and the offshore solar plants can be connected right to it. Allard van Hoeken, Oceans of Energy's CEO, explains how Oceans of Energy has been developing the offshore solar technology since 2016 and has been testing it in the North Sea since 2019. He states that in the BAMBOO project the goal is to scale up the technology to 1km2 standardized building blocks of 50-200 MW. “In the long-term we should see as much potential for offshore solar as offshore wind, just one percent of the North Sea area for offshore solar would be enough to cover the entire current electricity demand of the Netherlands of 100 GW,” van Hoeken calculates. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dd9_iNDt 📜 #offshoresolar; #solarpower; #renewableenergy; #energytransition; #cleanenergy; #sustainability Oceans of Energy Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics CSP Handelsblatt

Are you interested in our BAMBOO Project’s acronym significance? Here, the acronym chosen for our project is explained! Do you know why ‘BAMBOO’ has been selected as the acronym for our project? Standing for the project’s name “Build scAled Modular Bamboo-inspired Offshore sOlar systems”, our acronym represents the four fundamental characteristics of the bamboo-plant-inspired design philosophy, which is at the heart of the pioneering Oceans of Energy’s Offshore Solar technology to withstand the offshore environment. 🌊☀️ Like the bamboo plant, the technology is designed to be: - Lightweight - Flexible - Robust - Sustainable #offshoresolar; #solarpower; #renewableenergy; #energytransition; #cleanenergy; #sustainability

📢Exciting News! 📢 We are thrilled to announce the launch of the BAMBOO website!   Discover more about the EU-funded BAMBOO project, the initiative set to become the Industry Standard for large-scale Offshore Solar projects. 🌊☀️  Visit us at 👉 https://lnkd.in/e97_Ud-q Stay Tuned for Updates! Follow our journey as we promise significant advancements in offshore solar technology.  BAMBOO is a visionary project transforming Europe’s approach to offshore renewable energy. Our goal is ambitious: to support Europe’s approach to offshore renewable energy by developing a groundbreaking offshore solar system spanning 1 km² with an installed capacity of 50-200 MW that fits in between four offshore wind turbines and has a complementary energy profile.    This initiative is set to become the Industry Standard for large-scale Offshore Solar, crucial for Europe’s climate goals for 2030 and 2050, by enabling five times more energy generation per unit of sea space. #offshoresolar; #solarpower; #renewableenergy; #energytransition; #cleanenergy; #sustainability 

📢 BAMBOO at the “4th Annual Floating Solar PV 2024 Forum” scheduled to take place in Berlin, Germany, on May 21 and 22, 2024.   William Otto, Senior Project Manager at MARIN (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands), will give a speech about the project, focusing on the hydrodynamic challenges of upscaling towards 1km2. His research has shown that, next to challenges, upscaling also gives some interesting advantages. Upscaling makes some aspects of the mooring even simpler ... 🌊☀️ Want to hear more? Join us on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at 14:05 CET, as we present BAMBOO! 💡 #offshoresolar; #solarpower; #renewableenergy; #energytransition; #cleanenergy; #sustainability

BAMBOO at the Solar PV energy projects clustering event organised by CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency on April 25. Coordinator RINA and Technical Coordinator Oceans of Energy have represented BAMBOO at the event, which has clustered 15 projects in the domain of Solar PV. The event, organized by CINEA, has been held in Brussels, Belgium, and has given project representatives the opportunity to network as well as to participate in thematic discussions around important topics like Competitiveness, Digitalisation and operability, Sustainability and circularity.