The 69th and closing Siemens Gamesa SG 11.0-200 DD wind turbine was put in on the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm within the Dutch North Sea on Thursday, 19 October, CrossWind, the proprietor and developer of the wind farm stated.
The ultimate turbine’s three 97-metre lengthy blades have been lifted into place on Thursday night, at round 11:00 PM.
CrossWind, a three way partnership of Shell and Eneco; Van Oord because the contractor, and Siemens Gamesa because the wind turbine producer are therefore celebrating the profitable set up of the ultimate wind turbine at what the developer describes as ”one of many Netherlands’ most modern offshore wind parks”.
The improvements comprise floating offshore photo voltaic panels and a hydrogen plant.
Tjalling de Bruin, CEO and Challenge Director at CrossWind: ”I’m delighted to see the set up of our closing turbine. We couldn’t have carried out this with out our colleagues, suppliers and companions who’ve labored tirelessly and – maybe most significantly – safely to realize this main milestone. Numerous the generators are already producing clear, inexperienced electrical energy for the Dutch grid, accelerating the power transition.”
Van Oord began putting in the foundations on the offshore wind farm in October 2022. With the ultimate wind turbine put in inside a 12 months, CrossWind’s contractor is on monitor to make Hollandse Kust Noord one of many quickest put in wind farms of its form.
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Roeland Ris, Challenge Director Van Oord, stated: ”The set up of the 69th and closing wind turbine within the wind park is an impressive achievement. Finishing the secure set up of this offshore wind park on this timeframe is one thing that everybody concerned within the mission will be very happy with. We’re happy to collaborate with Shell and Eneco on this prestigious mission and look ahead to working collectively once more on the development of Ecowende’s offshore wind park at Hollandse Kust (west) lot VI.”
Hollandse Kust Zuid stays on monitor for completion by the tip of this 12 months, with closing testing and commissioning works set to proceed over the subsequent few weeks. When totally operational, the generators are anticipated to generate no less than 3.3 TWh of electrical energy per 12 months. This annual inexperienced electrical energy manufacturing will fulfil some 2.8 per cent of the electrical energy demand within the Netherlands and is equal to the power consumption of roughly a million households.
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