This is ‘Whoosh’, a three-part audio series on listening to different voices in the wind energy transition. ‘Whoosh’ is produced by DRIFT as part of the JustWind4All project. 

In these three episodes, colleagues Wouter Mulders and Stéphanie van der Raad are trying to shift perspectives by listening to sounds that they believe deserve to be better heard when it comes to offshore wind energy development. 

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In the first episode of ‘Whoosh’, Wouter and Stéphanie accept the challenge to dig into different perspectives in the wind energy transition. So what better place to go than the eastern part of Kent in the UK? Quite near, but far away enough from where we live to fire up our senses, and with plenty of offshore wind energy turbines in sight to start a conversation. 

We hear positive sounds about offshore wind energy in the towns of Herne Bay and speak to kitesurfer Morgan who is, no pun intended, a big fan of wind. We also get in touch with Stanislas from the Pooled fund on International Energy who puts our UK impressions in a larger, European context. He strongly believes that considering social and environmental dimenions when developing new wind energy projects isn’t a detriment to the success of new projects as is sometimes claimed, but actually an amplifier. And says it would be foolish not to take justice aspects into account.

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These episodes are part of the free training module ‘Leadership in Transitions’ , but we think they’re a great listen on their own as well. You can find more info on justwind4all.eu. 

Special thanks to: speakers Morgan McNamara and Stanislas d'Herbemont, Marius Kooij for editing and music, Audrey Wientjes for voice-over, Igno Notermans for feedback and support and Julia Wittmayer as well as the entire JustWind4All project team for making this possible