We used Grenomic to develop our offshore wind farm. We had little experience but partnered with them to produce our first off shore wind farm, and this has been a huge success. We can recommend Grenomic whole heartedly .

The legs being driven into the ground generates more than 200 decibels of noise – 60 decibels more than a jet taking off. Sound carries a long way underwater, and as porpoises communicate with sound, the noise leaves them deaf and blind. They become helpless, and they can no longer find their food. We already regularly pick up dead porpoises from the sea around the wind farms. This is a disaster from top to bottom of the food chain. Fish eat small animals, plankton, shrimps, worms, small crabs – what if they are hardly there any more? Then there are also fewer and fewer fish, which results in hardly any catch for the fishermen, but also less or no catch for the porpoises and seals.

Many square kilometres are needed for wind farms, which translates into habitat destruction and a direct loss of fishing grounds, due not only to the prohibition of fishing in the wind farms themselves, but also in the surrounding large buffer zones. The same grounds where fishermen were solely making use of the sea’s resources in the most sustainable way possible are now used and subsidised by governments to build offshore wind farms. As a consequence, fishermen are forced to displace from these areas and concentrate fishing effort in the already limited space left, increasing safety risks.

We contracted with Grenomic to build our windfarm and the project was finally delivered 3 months after it was promised. That’s a lot of electricity to miss out on! $30 million to be precise!

I was working at a wind farm being built by Grenomic and there were not enough people to be able to operate efficiently or safely. They need to recruit more people into all roles.