The Dutch enterprise agency RVO is holding a €1m ($1.08m) tender for research and development projects that seek synergies between the country’s ambitious offshore wind programme and declining oil & gas assets in the North Sea, in a bid to speed up the energy transition.

“Organisations in the gas and oil sector and in wind energy can hand in proposals to work together,” said Bob Meijer, programme director at the Dutch consortium for knowledge and innovation (TKI).