Synchronised Wake Mixing improves wind farms energy production

07 October 2026

TU Delft thesis about coordinated control strategies to reduce energy losses and improve overall wi…

A series of large-scale model tests of SCALEWIND

25 August 2026

How do you prepare for the next generation of floating offshore wind?

Wrap it up

24 August 2026

From welding to wrapping: rethinking the offshore joint

First North Sea Test for Delft Wind Farm Control Technology

18 July 2026

Helix concept moves from simulations and wind tunnels to offshore testing at Hollandse Kust Noord…

Prob-RunUp project to advance probabilistic assessment of wave run-up loads

15 July 2026

Creating building blocks for future site-specific probabilistic assessments

Accelerating circular solutions for wind turbine blades with SMART-Blades

25 June 2026

Turning decommissioned wind turbine blades into valuable structural elements through smarter modell…

Position paper: Innovatie voor wind op zee (only available in Dutch)

24 June 2026

Windenergie op zee is uitgegroeid tot een strategische pijler onder de Nederlandse energievoorzieni…

Call for innovative project ideas: €100,000 PPP co-funding opportunity with GROW

24 June 2026

A unique opportunity to accelerate your innovation with €100,000 in PPP co-funding and collaboratio…

Innovative shaker technology advances quieter pile installation

24 June 2026

A GROW project is bringing the offshore wind sector a step closer to low-noise monopile installatio…

Successful fatigue testing of blade torsion box in Reliable2-NL

17 June 2026

Within the Reliable2-NL project, a major milestone has been achieved: the successful fatigue testin…

A major step forward for Green SOCCS

16 June 2026

We are proud to share an important milestone in the Green SOCCS project: the successful inversion…

Wireless project to advance offshore wind turbine design under realistic conditions

15 June 2026

A new research initiative, the Wireless project, has been launched to support the offshore wind sec…

Learning to Fly

19 May 2026

Cargo drones are speeding up offshore turbine maintenance

FlexH2: How offshore wind will be directed more intelligently to the right place in the future

18 May 2026

The perfect integration of offshore wind in a nation’s energy system is more than just connecting…

SIDE-MP project advances low impact monopile decommissioning

20 April 2026

A GROW project is validating a silent, low-impact method to fully remove offshore wind monopiles,…

Bridging knowledge gaps in pile-run risk prediction

17 April 2026

Pile-Run Risk Assessment Project kicks off

SIMPLECS project to advance silent monopile installation in challenging soils

26 March 2026

New jetting and vibro solutions aim to unlock cost-effective, low-noise offshore wind foundation in…

Power to the future

20 March 2026

Reimagining the offshore energy system

CLEARWind project launches to pave the way for responsible offshore wind decommissioning

11 March 2026

New GROW initiative analyses future-proof methods for full end-of-life removal of offshore wind ass…

Webinar: GROWing Insights on the effect of rain on wind turbines in the North Sea

05 February 2026

24 March 2026, from 12:00 to 13:00 hours

Electric Cargo Drones Take Off for Faster, Cleaner Offshore Wind Maintenance

05 February 2026

Our new project Pilot-CD

Go with the flow

02 February 2026

Three engineers from GBM Works shed light on the preparations for a major offshore test with Vibroj…

Balancing bird safety and offshore wind operations

26 November 2025

Night-vision cameras and cutting-edge bird radars are installed and gathering data.

Let’s twist again

12 October 2025

GDP 2.0: Field test at Ruijgoord

The Sound of Silence

12 August 2025

Visiting the SIMOX Demonstration Site

Pushing the boundaries of innovation

17 July 2025

Lessons from the SIMOX Offshore Vibro-Installation Testing

Under pressure

04 July 2025

Removal of old monopiles

Join us at the Wind Energy 2050 Conference

02 July 2025

The need for innovation in Offshore Wind Energy Full-day programme on 11 November 2025, in Delft

Heerema Marine Contractors Joins GROW as Twenty-Fourth Partner

17 June 2025

We are excited to announce that Heerema Marine Contractors (Heerema) has become the twenty-fourth…

The Blade Runner and the Blade Crawler

14 April 2025

Increasing the reliability of rotor blades

Join the BlueWeek2025

24 March 2025

Advancing Offshore Renewables

Innovation@work: Dealing with small toads and big loads

26 February 2025

Get an impression of the onshore tests for silent offshore wind installation technologies

Successful Hydraulic Pile Extraction Scale Tests

27 January 2025

New decommissioning technology for offshore wind

The world is your oyster

24 January 2025

A safe tool for repair of rotor blades

Lots of interest in SIMOX Demo Day

16 December 2024

Many professionals from the offshore wind industry, government, and knowledge institutes showed the…

Innovation | Monopiles vibrate, shake and jet in trial at the Port of Amsterdam

11 December 2024

Article in Cobouw about SIMOX project

Improving O&M Simulations by Integrating Vessel Motions for Floating Wind Farms

05 November 2024

The FOWT IO&M project presents an integrated methodology for evaluating operations and maintena…

Innovative methods for installing monopiles for offshore wind energy

15 October 2024

The installation of monopiles for offshore wind turbines can have an impact on marine life. The off…

Dare to share

04 October 2024

Optimise the usage of space at the North Sea

It’s about Modular Multi-level Converters

15 September 2024

Carl Barker wrote the fourth ReFlexion about one of the technologies we are developing in the FlexH…

Revolutionary carbon fibre connection for offshore wind energy

17 June 2024

Welding of offshore wind foundations is now redundant

Get down on it!

04 June 2024

Introducing a revolutionary connection design that is set to transform the monopile installation pr…

It’s about how we feed the electricity into the grid

28 May 2024

Dongsheng Yang wrote the third Reflexion about one of the technologies we are developing in the Fle…

FlexH2 will be presented at the Offshore Day

06 May 2024

Iratxe González-Aparicio of TNO and Lucia Beloqui Larumbe of Shell, both work package leaders in th…

GBM Works to support wind farm developer Ecowende with innovative silent installation technology

12 April 2024

As part of the SIMPLE III project, the Vibrojet® will be tested on a pilot scale offshore, and nois…

New project: Advancing wind turbine blade reliability through innovative monitoring and digital twin technology

11 April 2024

Within the GROW programme, a Dutch collaboration comprising TNO, Shell, TU Delft, Suzlon, Tarucca…

Dynamic Wind Farm Flow Control launches project website

11 March 2024

Minimising wake effects for wind farms by closed-loop active wake steering and novel active wake mi…

Voor de WIND!

07 March 2024

Samenwerken en innoveren voor windenergie op zee

GROW congratulates Vibrotwist

08 February 2024

Vibrotwist is the winner of the jury and audience award of the Offshore Wind Innovators Award 2023.…

On the rocks

14 December 2023

Scouring our knowledge of rocks… and of scour.

Optimal monopile design incorporating cyclic loading effects and clay soil conditions

29 November 2023

Introducing MIDASclay, a follow-up project to MIDAS

Advancing multi-use in offshore wind farms

17 November 2023

Roadmap for the Dutch North Sea

New Project: WrapNode-II

16 November 2023

The second phase in the development of wrapped composite joints

GROW welcomes new partner Huisman

15 November 2023

We are pleased to announce our new GROW Partner, Huisman. Huisman designs, manufactures, and servic…

Bubbles JIP: Optimisation of bubble screens for offshore wind installations

10 November 2023

With Bubbles JIP, fresh insight has been gained into the understanding of bubble curtains. However,…

Offshore wind to hydrogen: flexibility provider in a Dutch electrified market

09 November 2023

Conceptual design and optimum operations of the FlexH2 System. The second ReFlexion on one of the…

New Project: Next step in the development of the GDP technique

24 October 2023

Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) approved GDP2.0, the fourth project in the process

As a knife through the butter

03 October 2023

Get an impression of the successful tests of the Gentle Driving of Piles technology in clay

RVO Approves Subsidy for SIMPLE III: The Vibrojet® is Going Offshore!

13 September 2023

GROW is proud to announce, together with its partners, that the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)…

Solid as a rock

29 July 2023

Extreme conditions… in an extremely short timeframe

FlexH2 starts a series of posts about the different technologies that are being developed within the project

23 July 2023

This is the first edition, we will not go into technical details here but rather provide a basis fo…

FlexH2 launched project website

17 July 2023

Flexible Offshore Wind Hydrogen Power Plant Module (FlexH2) aims to develop and demonstrate the tec…

New project: COAX

03 May 2023

Offshore tests and measurements are coming up to collect data for predicting underwater noise for…

Shaken AND Stirred

21 April 2023

One ring to install monopiles faster, cheaper, and more silently.

New project: Tubular Pile Pull-out Testing program (TPPT)

06 March 2023

Execution of static and dynamic tensile tests on four tubular mooring piles for floating offshore…

First full-scale Wrapped Composite Joint sees light

16 February 2023

Tree Composites produced the first full-scale Tree Composites Joint (TC-joint) within the WrapNode-…

Rainspotting

01 February 2023

Developing the ultimate weather atlas for rain and wind in the North Sea

New project: Optimisation of Pile Installation through Scour protection (OPIS)

01 February 2023

Reducing the cost of foundation construction for offshore wind turbines

GROW and the Estonian Wind Energy Conference 2023

30 January 2023

David de Jager presents the GROW programme and illustrates the importance of collaboration in innov…

Outcome of the Gentle Driving of Piles (GDP) project

17 January 2023

Check out two companion papers!

TU Delft wants to know which way the wind blows

14 January 2023

Professor Jan-Willem van Wingerden was interviewed about our project Dynamic Wind Farm Flow Control.

TNO Webinar: Switch to the hybrid energy system

12 January 2023

How will our future electricity grid remain stable and affordable?

Getting to the bottom of things

17 November 2022

It sounds like a beautiful beach day: playing around with water and sand in an environment that can…

GROW enters next phase

13 October 2022

Twenty leading offshore wind parties extend their successful cooperation on innovation to 2030

New project: Bolt & Beautiful

22 September 2022

To reduce costs and increase bolting safety for future large wind turbines.

The Next Airbender

20 September 2022

More energy through dynamic control over the wind flow inside an offshore wind farm.

FlexH2 in the news

22 August 2022

Innovation Origins, a European platform about innovation, start-ups and technologies, published an…

Interested in co-use of the North Sea? Join our workshop!

08 August 2022

Dive deeper in the challenges of multi-use of offshore wind farms

Let’s execute

07 July 2022

Offshore wind and the winning tickets for the coming years

Presentation Windpark Fryslân by Bart Ummels

23 June 2022

On July 7, 2022, Bart Ummels of Windpark Fryslân will share his lessons learned from developing the…

News item with the spinning geo-centrifuge of GROW partner Deltares

15 June 2022

This geo-centrifuge reaches fifty times the g-forces as experienced in a rollercoaster and is used…

GROW project in the spotlight: Sensor Assisted Wind farm Optimisation

08 June 2022

A smart way to measure the wind field and produce more energy

New partners are joining the SIMOX-project

31 May 2022

Ocean Winds, Ørsted and Vattenfall decided to participate and actively contribute to the project.

New project: Silent Installation of MonoPiLEs IIB (SIMPLE-IIB)

25 May 2022

On May 16, 2022, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) announced that the GROW project SIMPLE-IIB…

Succesful exchange of nacelle lidars halfway through the measurement campaign of SAWOP

20 May 2022

Get a foggy impression!

Install, Load, Repeat

10 May 2022

Meet the team who loves spinning around monopiles and listen to the seventh edition of GROW-to-GO…

FlexH2 starts today

01 April 2022

Our Flexible Offshore Wind Hydrogen Power Plant Module (FlexH2) project starts today. With this pro…

GROW congratulates associate project partner GBM Works

22 March 2022

GBM Works is the winner of the jury award of the Offshore Wind Innovators Award 2021. The company…

New project to assess co-use options in offshore wind farms (Road2SID)

21 March 2022

The North Sea is one of the most used seas worldwide and home to various functions such as nature,…

Power up!

01 March 2022

Listen to the sixth edition of GROW-to-GO with Jan Coelingh (lead engineer wind resource at Vattenf…

Vattenfall joins research programme in offshore wind GROW

04 February 2022

Vattenfall, one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat has joined the…

"Within 10 years, the slip joint will be the most commonly used connection in the offshore wind industry"

02 February 2022

An interview with Reinder Jorritsma and Robert Hasselaar (DOT) about the SJOR project.

Twist and shake it fast!

01 February 2022

Listen to the fifth edition of GROW-to-GO with Andrei Metrikine, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor,…

Millions of collisions at 300 km/h - Ouch!

21 December 2021

Listen to the fourth edition of GROW-to-GO with Harald van der Mijle Meijer (TNO), and Julie Teuwen…

GROW consortium to start innovation project FlexH2

14 December 2021

A Flexible Offshore Wind Hydrogen Power Plant Module

It’s like connecting steel tubes with duct tape

29 November 2021

Listen to the third edition of GROW-to-GO with Marko Pavlović, assistant professor at TU Delft, and…

Turbine control strategies to mitigate leading-edge erosion reduces O&M costs significantly

18 November 2021

In this way, the lifetime of wind turbine blades is significantly extended.

Wind and salty water: corrosion and fatigue. Not so fast!

09 November 2021

Listen to the second edition of GROW-to-GO with Richard Pijpers and Joke Luyten of TNO.

Listen to the first edition of GROW-to-GO

27 October 2021

A podcast magazine on offshore wind innovation

Gentle Driving of Piles Documentary released

21 September 2021

Get an impression of the development and testing of this new installation technique.

New project to develop a PRecipitation atlas for Offshore Wind blade Erosion Support (PROWESS)

17 September 2021

The life of wind turbine blades is currently greatly shortened by leading-edge erosion. The erosion…

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27 July 2021

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Wrapped composite joint for jacket foundations for offshore wind

29 June 2021

Due to lighter structures and shorter manufacturing time wrapped joints can significantly reduce co…

Follow-up project: HyPE-ST 1.2

28 June 2021

Hydraulic Pile Extraction Scale Tests for testing the removal of piles from the soil at the end of…

We innovate: Dynamic Wind Farm Flow Control project launched

15 April 2021

Minimizing wake effects for wind farms by closed-loop active wake steering and novel active wake mi…

Sustainable and low-cost installation of monopile foundations for future very large wind turbines

02 February 2021

Within 5 years, the GROW research project SIMOX (Sustainable Installation of XXL Monopiles) aims to…

Niels Bijkersma, Programme Council member of RWE on the project HyPE-ST

29 September 2020

"We can say that the hydraulic extraction technique works. All important objectives have been succe…

Monopiles dismantle themselves with water pressure

04 June 2020

At the end of their service life, monopiles used for the foundation of offshore wind turbines can…

Two pre-proposals submitted under MOOI-call

25 May 2020

Monday 18 May was the first deadline for submitting pre-proposals for the MOOI call for tender. MOO…

To develop a proven methodology for the improved design of monopiles under environmental cyclic loading

11 May 2020

The GROW partners Deltares, Eneco, IHC, innogy, Shell, TU Delft, Van Oord and associate partner Sie…

World’s first full-sized submerged Slip Joint successfully installed

25 April 2020

On 25 April, Van Oord installed successfully the first foundation with a Slip Joint at the Borssele…

Bubbles JIP project

01 April 2020

To achieve more efficient and effective use of bubble curtains for noise mitigation in offshore ins…

Project in the spotlight: HyPE-ST

02 March 2020

Sustainable monopile decommissioning, one step closer to circularity

GROW project in the spotlight: Gentle Driving of Piles

24 December 2019

Twist the cork and it becomes thinner

GDP DEMO Day Successful

07 November 2019

On Friday the 1st of November the Gentle Driving of Piles (GDP) project hosted a demonstration day…

Video of successful decommissioning slip joint connection

19 September 2019

After a year of offshore testing, the turbine with the slip joint connection was removed.

After a year of successfully testing the Slip Joint connection, the DOT wind turbine is decommissioned

16 August 2019

With the removal of the DOT wind turbine all phases of this concept’s lifetime are investigated and…

GROW side-event at the WindDays - Foundation Innovation: Presentations are available now

13 June 2019

Did you visit our side event on foundation innovation at the WindDays and do you want to have an ot…

GROW side-event at the WindDays - Foundation Innovation

15 April 2019

Interested in the developments in offshore wind foundations? Visit the GROW side event at the WindD…

Innovation doesn’t stop with subsidy-free tenders

22 March 2019

In the coming years, offshore wind energy in the Netherlands will get a big boost. By 2030, the tot…

GROW and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy sign collaboration agreement to strengthen innovation in offshore wind energy

22 March 2019

Offshore wind energy is a key technology in the transition of our energy system towards sustainabil…

First offshore wind turbine using the Slip Joint connection successfully installed

30 September 2018

SJOR project tests innovative connection offshore: ready-to-use installation within an hour.

David de Jager is GROW’s new Director

15 May 2018

As of today David de Jager succeeded Ernst van Zuijlen as Director of GROW.

GROW consortium officially launched at Wind Days 2016

16 June 2016

The GROW consortium was officially launched at the WindDays 2016 conference held in Rotterdam, the…

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