Head of Offshore Development, TenneT

Biography

Saskia Jaarsma is Head of the Offshore Development team within TenneT's unit Large Projects Offshore. The objective of this unit is to safely and sustainably develop, build and operate the offshore grid in The Netherlands, against lowest cost for society. Saskia's team is responsible for developing new policies, concepts and offshore grid innovations in The Netherlands; developing this into feasible roadmaps for new offshore grid projects; as well as partnering with other offshore stakeholders like TSO's, OWF developers and NGO's. In 2021, Saskia was elected one of the 20 members of the Clean Energy Industrial Forum's working group on offshore renewables, initiated by DG Energy of the European Commission. Before joining TenneT in 2015, Saskia worked for DNV GL and KEMA as a principal consultant in the electricity transmission and distribution sector. In 2001, she graduated at the Technical University of Eindhoven, completing the MSc study "Energytechnology and Policy".