In this letter, addressed to the Dutch Parliament, the Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, Mark Harbers writes on the growing importance of a solid policy framework surrounding offshore wind farms, emphasising the necessity for shared uses, particularly in the already crowded North Sea. In particular, he calls the Dutch government to put two principles into practise:
- More targeted forms of shared use are facilitated by exploring, at the scale of the Dutch EEZ, per shared use form in which wind energy areas have the most potential, instead of per wind farm.
- There is a more integrated approach to the design of offshore wind farms by including shared use earlier in the offshore wind energy process as a co-driving factor in the design.
