In September 2020, PROMOTioN, as the to date biggest energy project in the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research Program, came to an end. Over the course of 4.5 years, 34 partners from 11 countries worked on questions regarding the future evolution of Europe’s offshore energy grid, combining expertise from manufacturers, suppliers, TSOs, offshore wind developers as well as leading academic and consulting institutions. The project took a holistic approach in addressing design, development, and deployment of the EU’s energy infrastructure from a technical, financial, regulatory, managerial, and policy perspective.

Research in PROMOTioN focussed on three areas:

- Linking technology research, validation (testing), and the development of proposals and recommendations for meshed offshore grids.
- Identifying technical requirements and investigating possible topologies for meshed HVAC/DC offshore grids.
- Developing recommendations for a coherent EU and national regulatory framework regarding DC offshore grids.

Over the course of the projects's duration, our experts published more than 60 scientific articles in peer-reviewed papers, contributed more than 100 conference papers and held close to 150 conference presentations. We engaged our stakeholders and demonstrated Technology Readiness in 28 workshops and demonstration events. We are now happy and proud to share the insights and conclusions gained from PROMOTioN.