At the moment there is no good system in place for sharing the lessons learned from incidents between the different companies in the wind sector in the Netherlands. During a first session on safety by the Dutch wind energy association NWEA, 14 large parties in the wind sector signed a letter of intent to investigate…
On Thursday, September 24, 2020, the ground-breaking ceremony took place for the construction of the Egchelse Heide Wind Farm, located between Egchel and Beringe in the municipality of Peel en Maas, province of Limburg. The wind farm is scheduled to become operational in the 2nd quarter of 2021. The ceremony was led by by Paul…
Last week, financial close was reached for the 21 MW Egchelse Heide Wind Farm. The five wind turbines in the municipality of Peel en Maas are planned to become operational in the second quarter of 2021. Approximately 27 million euros has been raised for the project. Egchelse Heide wind farm is an initiative of the…
Commissioning of three wind turbines on the Tata terrain in IJmuiden has started yesterday. The wind turbines that form the Ferrum Wind Farm are expected to annually produce around 25 million kWh once fully commercially operational. The three turbines are from German wind turbine manufacturer Enercon, type E92. Each turbine has a hub height of 85…
ABP made another wind farm investment announcement at the end of last week. This time the pension fund is investing in a 32 MW onshore wind farm in Goeree-Overflakkee, in the province of Zuid-Holland. The news follows after ABP announced earlier that week that it is taking a 64% share in the German offshore wind…
The construction of the last of in total 10 wind turbines at De Veenwieken Wind Farm has been completed. Six of the ten Enercon, type E-103, 2.3 MW, wind turbines are already connected to the grid. The coming period will be spent on connecting the remaining 4 wind turbines. The first construction activities started in April…
In the eastern part of the Netherlands, between Ommen, Hardenberg en Dedemsvaart, where till recently green pastures dominated the view, ten Enercon wind turbines are slowly rising on the horizon. All in close cooperation with the local citizens. On 7 September, this onshore wind farm De Veenwieken, opened the construction site to the public. De…
On Thursday 14 November, Enercon completed the installation of the last of seven wind turbines at Samen voor de Wind, an onshore wind farm located alongside the Overijsselse tocht, nearby Swifterbant in the municipality of Dronten. The German wind turbine manufacturer started the installation activities last week. Samen Voor de Wind is an initiative of 6…
On 17 October of this year, construction of Zeewolde Wind Farm will start. It will be the largest wind farm built on land in the Netherlands when completed. Mr Fackeldey, Deputy Energy Transition of the province of Flevoland and Alderman for sustainability of the municipality of Zeewolde, mr Suithoff, will perform the symbolic ground breaking…
On 7 september, initiators De Wieken (Windunie, Greenchoice and ABN AMRO Energy Transition Fund) and Pure Energie organised an Open Day at De Veenwieken Wind Farm which is currently under construction. More than 150 persons, in 7 groups, were given the opportunity to visit two locations at the construction site to learn more about the…
