Ecowende, a three way partnership between Shell and Eneco, has positioned an order for 52 Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind generators for the Hollandse Kust West VI offshore wind farm, situated about 53 kilometres off the Dutch coast, close to IJmuiden.
Turbine set up at sea is predicted to start within the second quarter of 2026. As soon as put in, Vestas will service the wind farm below a 15-year service contract designed to make sure optimised efficiency of the belongings.
“We’re happy to announce this settlement with Vestas to provide and repair the wind generators for Hollandse Kust West. With Vestas’ in depth expertise in offshore wind, we’re assured we will develop and function the Ecowende wind farm safely, on time and assembly the vitality manufacturing targets. As well as, we sit up for working along with Vestas to implement the ecology measures that make Ecowende stand out,” stated Folkert Visser, CEO and Undertaking Director at Ecowende.
The wind generators will probably be put in on 52 prolonged monopile foundations, manufactured by Sif, that can don’t have any transition items, however secondary metal parts.
Ecowende intends to set a brand new ecological commonplace for constructing and working wind farms within the North Sea, with minimal affect on the pure habitat of birds, bats and marine mammals, and with a thriving underwater world.
The three way partnership is alleged to stick to the excessive qualitative standards set out within the non-price-focused tender from the Dutch authorities.
This contains the creation of a hen hall inside the offshore wind farm format, growing the hub top to create extra vertical area for birds, and integrating hen and bat detection and deterrence methods into the turbine design.
“This undertaking has a powerful emphasis on the mixing of the wind farm into the native ecology, which is important to underline the societal worth of wind vitality,” stated Nils de Baar, President of Vestas Northern & Central Europe.
The undertaking has a grid connection capability of 760 MW and an extra capability of 20 MW to make use of the connection capability as effectively as attainable, even when manufacturing is decrease, stated Vestas.
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