Press release
March 5, 2025
We are thrilled to announce that we reached a significant milestone. We managed to generate electricity at sea with our at scale wave energy device. For the first time a Dutch company has achieved that in the North Sea. This result signals that with wave energy, the North Sea is the powerhouse for the energy transition, together with offshore wind.
Slow Mill was founded in 2012 to develop the Slow Mill wave energy technology, based on a unique blade construction that greatly resists open flow. In the following years, the technology was developed by testing increasingly larger scale models in the lab, on open water and in the North Sea to the point where a wave array of several well performing autonomic plug and play models can be demonstrated. Members of the management team own the technology and are highly motivated to bring a successful commercial product onto the market to accelerate the energy transition, support ocean life, lessen fossil fuel dependence and boost the circular economy.
ir. Erwin Meijboom MSc MA
CEO & cofounder
Erwin Meijboom is cofounder and has a technical background in Wageningen, specialised in environmental sciences and sustainability. He worked as a consultant and manager, gaining broad experience in various advisory and management roles at the government in mentoring numerous startups.
Email: info@slowmill.nl
Slow Mill Team
The team consists of eight passionate and dedicated women and men in the field of technical development, engineering, business development and project management. W are driven by creating sustainable solutions for the world and and making impact.
We have a hands-on approach, open to market needs and opportunities and offer straight on, simple solutions based on nature and science with the most effective outcome in mind.
The Slow Mill has been under active development since 2012. At that time it already was a promising technology but lots of research has been done since. Throughout the years the promising aspects of a modern-day wave energy technology capable of harnessing not only the energy rich waves of the oceans but also the relative short and irregular choppy waves of the North Sea, has generated quite some attention in the sustainable energy field.
Multiple competitions the Slow Mill has entered have resulted in being showcased, nominated or awarded a prize. Most remarkable being the iSea Clash of Concepts, All Energy Day - Aim For The Moon, Making Waves - Ideas from Europe, the Do Challenge Sint Maarten and the Global Entrepreneurship Summit organized by the United States and the Netherlands.
