Renewable electricity

My research interests and priorities contribute to TNO’s objectives by advancing the capabilities and use of state of the art system analyses methods and tools to inform the energy transition and industrial transformation across the board.

The research area of my lectorship is wind energy. The focus lies on technological aspects of wind energy, e.g.  turbine technology and experimental techniques, as well as on social acceptance. These research areas are largely in line with those of  the TNO unit Energy Transition, department Wind Energy. My lectorship at UAS Hanze is active since November 1, 2018. Prior to that, I was lector at UAS NHL in Leeuwarden since January 1, 2012.

We are at a critical turning point of the energy transition. The global PhotoVoltaic module market is expected to have reached over about 350 GW in 2022 and this in addition to the more than 200 GW, 150 GW and 100 GW of PV modules installations for the previous 3 years, respectively. Furthermore 2022 was the year of 1000 GW (one TW) of cumulative PV installation. Latest data from BloombergNEF shows doubling of PV deployment every 3 years. It is therefore expected that by 2030 the annual PV market size will be between one and three TW. In the past 10 years the annual average module efficiency increased by 0.5% absolute to value above 20%. Additionally, the PV industry demonstrated a 20 times cost reduction in 20 years.

Ir Harald van der Mijle Meijer is a materials engineer and has been working in offshore wind research since 2007. Harald has a passion for wind, sea and sustainability and applies this for the strategy and implementation of the development of innovations in wind energy together with the industry. At TNO he has carried out several national and international projects on a wide range of topics. In addition to being a consultant, he is R&D portfolio manager on the research line 'Offshore Wind Farms'.