Look north from the IJmuiden quay and you will see the Tata chimneys smoking, the ferry going back and forth, but the six large windmills along the Velsen-North quay are standing still. Not long now, reports an Eneco spokesperson: “The IT problems after a hack at a supplier have been solved and the wind turbines will start running at the end of August or early September.”
The six turbines are a thorn in the side for many: one does not want them to be there, the other thinks that the windmills, if they are there, should be running.
Actually, the six wind turbines of the project called Spuisluis would start operating around the beginning of the summer, in other words about now. After rumors that the delay could cost much more time and money than planned, NH Nieuws put questions to the companies involved.
According to the answers, a hack at windmill builder Nordex in April caused the project to be delayed. Last month, Eneco announced through a spokesperson; “All the parts are there, but not everything is ready yet.”
Resists
That problem has now been solved, reports a spokesperson for Eneco, which is leading the project for the construction of six wind turbines. “Every now and then you can see the windmills spinning,” he says. “Soon we will start a serious test run and the wind turbines will really start running at the end of August, early September.”
In a response, a Nordex spokesperson admitted to being hacked in April and due to “limited availability of certain features, which the network integration was unable to perform according to the original plan.”
Dirk Weidema, chairman of Milieuplatform IJmuiden, previously opposed the arrival of the windmills. “If the smoke plumes from Tata Steel are caught by the turbulence of the windmills, the temperature decreases faster. That is a fact. As a result, the plume loses its rate of rise and falls to ground level sooner.”
The video from April last year about the new windmills: