The EU Energy Projects Podcast

In the latest episode of the EU Energy Projects Podcast, Areti Ntaradimou had the pleasure of speaking with Ainhoa Cortés, project lead of Project WILLOW, an EU-funded initiative tackling one of offshore wind’s most pressing and least visible challenges: how to balance energy production with the long-term health of wind turbines.

At the heart of the project is an ambitious integration of structural health monitoring, physical models, and AI-driven tools. WILLOW combines SCADA data, accelerometer readings, corrosion and coating sensors, and machine-learning models to produce far more accurate lifetime predictions. This makes it possible not only to detect damage earlier, but also to make smarter operational decisions. For example, curtailing a turbine already showing signs of degradation rather than one in good condition.

In this episode of the EU Energy Projects Podcast we’re joined by Juho Kivelä from the INDEPENDENT and RESONANCE projects and Joseba Jimeno from GLocalFlex and ELEXIA. Four projects belonging to the same cluster, namely the Energy Nexus Cluster. Their work drives Europe’s transition toward smarter energy management, flexible local energy systems, and cleaner, more connected urban environments.

In this episode of the EU Energy Projects Podcast, host Jonathan Spencer Jones speaks with Stavros Stamatoukos, Policy Officer for Digitalisation and AI at DG Energy, about the EU’s growing framework of policy and legislative actions on AI and digitalisation in the energy sector.

Recorded during Enlit Europe 2025, this wide-ranging conversation offers rare insight into how policymakers are balancing innovation, regulation, and system security in Europe’s energy transition.

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In this episode of the EU Energy Projects podcast, Jonathan Spencer Jones hears from Eduard Escalona Zorita and Fernando Cassola how open-source space data can be used in the energy sector.

Over the course of less than a lifetime, space exploration has evolved from the launch of the first satellite to a multi-billion dollar/euro industry with ever increasing numbers of satellites providing round-the-clock services and scientific and other data on our Earth system.

As the data has become more sophisticated and diverse, it has attracted interest from multiple sectors for monitoring and management – not least in the energy sector with the increasing demands and complexity of the energy transition.

As the agency for the EU’s space programme, EUSPA provides a range of space-based services for public and private users, in particular based on the Copernicus Earth observation and Galileo global navigation programmes.

Ports are key hubs in the energy transition, at the heart of countries’ economies and with diverse energy users from heavy, energy intensive industries to small businesses and multiple transport types.

In this episode, Areti Ntaradimou speaks with Ivan Jimenez, President of the Port Authority of Bilbao about the BilbOPS project — a €115 million EU-backed initiative aiming to fully electrify the port by 2027, well ahead of regulatory deadlines, through a collaborative clean energy-sharing model.