This is reported by the Swedish company Vattenfall, with BASF and Allianz co-owners of the 225 square kilometer wind farm. This complex with windmills on legs is expected to provide sufficient green energy to customers such as BASF and Air Liquide in 2023. The wind farm’s turbines each have a capacity of 11 megawatts.
The park under construction, the first to be realized without subsidy, is located between 18 and 35 kilometers off the Dutch coast, between The Hague and Zandvoort.
Test phase
According to Ian Bremner, project director, this is the largest offshore wind farm in this form. “Although the first rotating turbine is still in the test phase, it is already producing power.”
The electricity collected at sea is collected in large ‘sockets’ at sea and brought ashore via heavy, kilometers long cables via an offshore transformer station. All generated power comes ashore via two offshore transformer stations installed by TenneT.
The last turbines are expected to be installed in the second quarter of 2023.