Support and coordination of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Wind Energy (ETIPWind) and the SET-Plan Implementation Working Group on Offshore Wind (IWG OW).

Project Information

SETIPWind

Grant agreement ID: 101075499

DOI

10.3030/101075499

Project closed

EC signature date 19 July 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

€ 996 107,50

EU contribution

€ 996 107,50

Coordinated by

WindEurope
Belgium

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - SETIPWind (Support and coordination of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Wind Energy (ETIPWind) and the SET-Plan Implementation Working Group on Offshore Wind (IWG OW).)

Reporting period: 2024-03-01 to 2025-08-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The SETIPWind project supports the coordination of activities of the European Technological Platform for Wind Energy (ETIPWind) and the SET Plan Implementation Working Group on Wind energy (IWG Wind).
The objectives of the SETIPWind project are to:
• Ensure ETIPWind and the SET Plan IWG Wind contribute with timely and high impact input to the EU and national R&I policies thanks to an enhanced coordination of their activities and deliverables, addressing the key technical and societal challenges of an accelerated and sustainable deployment of wind energy.
• Ensure a wider participation and engagement of key stakeholders in ETIPWind’s and the IWG Wind’s activities, including industry, small & medium enterprises, research, and civil society organisations such as representatives from energy cooperatives, trade unions or natural protection groups, universities, associations from relevant sectors, EU Institutions, and SET Plan countries. With a particular focus on the involvement of SSH experts.
• To improve the collaboration on content creation, communication, and dissemination of deliverables of ETIPWind and the IWG Wind with other ETIPs and IWGs to advance towards more aligned and interconnected activities.
• To guarantee that the SET Plan initiative receives consensus-based advice from stakeholders on R&I priorities on wind energy and key areas for the energy transition, covering technical and non-technical aspects which contribute to the new SET Plan targets in the context of the EU Green Deal and Recovery Plan for Europe.
• To increase the awareness and knowledge on wind energy technology developments, the sector’s state-of-play, and its impacts on the EU economy and society among the SET Plan bodies, EU policymakers, national governments, and key decision makers.
• To maximise the impact of communication, dissemination, and exploitation of ETIPWind and IWG OW activities and deliverables, and to facilitate the dissemination of EU R&I initiatives and programmes.
• To safeguard ETIPWind’s successful continuation with a finance and sustainability plan for its future beyond the lifetime of this project.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The SETIPWind project started in September 2022 and ended in August 2025. It supported the achievement of the following activities:
-A renewed ETIPWind Steering Committee of 35 experts composed of a wide representation of different stakeholder profiles including SSH experts. And a renewed IWG Wind composed of 12 representatives from national governments.
-A series of annual wind energy competitiveness reports. These reports depict the progress towards several competitiveness indicators of the wind energy sector such as wind energy installations, contribution of wind energy to the EU GDP, trade balance, jobs or R&I expenditure.
-Six new SET Plan targets for wind energy were defined by the IWG Wind members. These targets focus on key aspects supporting the deployment of wind energy in Europe.
-A factsheet on the key wind energy technology megatrends, widely disseminated with EU and national policymakers.
-A Strategic R&I Agenda developed based on a detailed gap analysis between the Horizon Europe work programmes and the priorities identified by ETIPWind in its previous Technology Roadmap. The document is the basis for the SETIPWind project to provide R&I recommendations to the European Commission, in particular to inform the next calls for proposals of the Horizon Europe Work Programmes.
-A joint report on the potential of offshore renewables in Europe developed in collaboration with ETIP Ocean.
-The ETIPWind report 'From Innovation to Industrial Competitiveness' that defines a common R&I strategy by 2050 for the whole SET Plan community on wind energy. The report also includes a detailed EU funding analysis on wind R&I from 2021 and 2024 and provides a list of recommendations to optimise public funding support for wind R&I in the next EU budget (2028-2034).
-A series of short videos and interviews communicating the main messages of ETIPWind.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

The SETIPWind project provided the SET Plan initiative and EU policy and national decision makers with consensus-based, relevant advice on R&I priorities for wind energy. All input were provided on time and included fact-based information on the sector’s state-of play. This was supported by a work programme around key EU energy and R&I policy-setting milestones, the dissemination of three annual competitiveness reports, and a final report focusing on the main recommendations to optimise funding for wind R&I.
SETIPWind improved the collaboration of ETIPWind and the IWG Wind with other ETIPs and IWGs. This was done through the establishment of a joint Secretariat for ETIPWind and the SET Plan IWG Wind that facilitated the coordination of activities. But it also expanded the collaboration areas with other ETIPs and IWGs on content creation (e.g. a joint report on offshore renewables, identification of research actions suitable for cross-sectorial projects), communication, dissemination, and exploitation activities (e.g. campaign targeting the revision of NECPs).
Finally, the SETIPWind project consulted the whole SET Plan community on the future of wind R&I. And managed to get an agreement on the need to establish a European Fund for Wind Research & Competitiveness. This Fund must be integrated in the next EU budget to set up a technology-specific one-stop-shop centralising EU funding for wind energy R&I. The Fund must be the framework to implement the common R&I strategy through private and public funding.

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