Project manager, POM West-Vlaanderen

Biography

Rebecca Verhaeghe is Project Manager for Blue Energy and Decommissioning at POM West-Flanders, Belgium. She manages the Interreg project R.E.N.E.W. and ETF project DECOMPASS (Decommissioning Compass). R.E.N.E.W. develops circular solutions for the dismantling, pre-processing, logistics, recycling and high-value reuse of end-of-life wind turbine blades. DECOMPASS compares offshore wind decommissioning and processing scenarios, assessing their economic and environmental sustainability. Her completed projects include the Interreg project DecomTools, the Belgium Builds Back project Ready4Decom, and the Energy Transition Fund (ETF) project OWiDEx. OWiDEx brought together knowledge on offshore wind decommissioning in Belgium. Its outputs include DecomExplorer, an interactive visualisation tool for exploring and comparing decommissioning scenarios, and Decompendium, a resource that brings together knowledge and project results on offshore wind decommissioning. Through her work on European projects, Rebecca strengthens collaboration across countries and supports partnerships among small and medium-sized enterprises in the offshore wind industry.