Wind farm plans to harvest seaweed in Spring 2024

Scandanavia's largest offshore wind farm, Vattenfall's Kriegers Flak, is growing seaweed and mussels for harvest this year.

WIN@sea project is a collaboration of Danish universities and companies to produce fossil-free energy and food at the same location to improve the marine environment and biodiversity.

Located in the Baltic Sea, east of Denmark, the windfarm will also harvest seaweed, set lines for growing mussels and assess local cod stocks.

'It’s going to an exciting year for us. One of the big milestones will be our initial harvest of seaweed for food production from the offshore wind farm in late spring,' says WIN@sea Senior Researcher & Project Leader, Annette Bruhn, from the Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University.

Rocks will also be placed on the seabed to form artifical stone reefs that also protect the turbine foundations.

Once the first seaweed is harvested in the spring, its quality as a food stuff will undergo analysis, before being used to make different dishes at the project's cooking school.

Partners include Aarhus University, the Danish Technological University, the University of Copenhagen, the seaweed and mussel producer Kerteminde Seafarm, the Kattegat Centre and the energy company Vattenfall.