Last Friday, one of the installed wind turbines in the onshore Hanze Wind Farm, located in the Dutch municipality of Dronten in northeastern Flevoland, produced its first electricity. The tests are now being analyzed after which the wind turbine can...
LiftWerx, a member of the Dutch Meemaken Group of companies, performed its first gearbox installation with their newest GenHook™ crane system, marking its market launch. The up-tower crane technology was used to install a gearbox for a General Electric wind turbine at...
Turbine installation for the onshore wind farm Hanze in the municipality of Dronten in north-eastern Flevoland recently kicked-off. Work is currently underway on the second turbine. The wind farm will house a total of 15 wind turbines in 2 lines,...
Installation of the tower sections for Windplanblauw’s nearshore wind turbines started this week. The IJsselmeer will host 24 GE Cypress 5.5 MW wind turbines. Contractor company Ballast Nedam has designed and built special foundations for these. Work on the foundations...
The GROW consortium has been awarded a 4 million euro grant from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) for their FlexH2 project. The Shell-led research project, which stands for Flexible Offshore Wind Hydrogen Power Plant Module, intends to develop and demonstrate...
Windplan Groen, a large onshore wind repowering development in the province of Flevoland, has reached a new milestone: all 11 participating wind farms have completed the development phase and 9 have reached Financial Close. The last two wind farms are...
Dutch pensionfund ABP, through its pension provider APG, acquired a 64% stake in the 396 MW German offshore wind farm Merkur Offshore, located approximately 45 km off the north German coast. The acquisition is in line with ABP’ ambition to...
Dutch offshore contractor Jack Up Barge has completed its scope of work for the DolWin3 connection in the southwestern part of the German North Sea. The company is now starting on its new project, BorWin3. The scope of work for...
