Ecowende, Waardenburg Ecology and partners are developing a comprehensive ecological programme for Ecowende’s offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (west) Wind Farm Site VI. This is said to be the most extensive ecological programme to date for an offshore wind farm....
Contractor Visser & Smit Bouw is working on the engineering and realisation of a new 380kV GIS substation and Shunt reactor at Tweede Maasvlakte near Rotterdam. Both vital for the new high-voltage infrastructure for Shell’s future Holland Hydrogen 1 hydrogen...
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has approved €5.558.934 in subsidy for the Silent Installation of MonoPiLEs (SIMPLE) III project. The support provided by RVO and the project partners for SIMPLE III (total budget of €10.788.839) will be used to execute...
Dutch Railways (NS) wants to ensure that train travel in the Netherlands is 100% sustainable even after 2024. To this end, the company has signed a preliminary contract with PZEM and Shell. NS hereby opts for a short-term contract of...
Today, the ‘sail out’ of the topside for the offshore platform Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) takes place. The steel construction will sail to its final destination about 50 kilometers off the coast of Egmond aan Zee where it will be...
Van Oord has completed the installation and burial of the inter-array cables for CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm. The company installed 69 inter-array cables with a total length of 140 km. Van Oord designed a 66kV inter-array grid...
Nobian, producer of salt, essential chemicals, and energy for industry, has signed a long-term PPA with Shell for the purchase of approximately half of the 157 GWh of annual production from the combined solar and wind farm Pottendijk in Drenthe....
The 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm off the Dutch coast produced its first megawatt-hours (MWh) of green energy today. The energy is delivered via TenneT’s offshore grid to the Dutch mainland. In coming months production capacity will...
On 18 April, Shell officially opened Energiepark Pottendijk in Emmen. The park is the largest energy park in the Netherlands combining wind and solar. It is also the first onshore wind farm in the Netherlands for Shell. Energiepark Pottendijk consists...
Shell has partnered with Whiffle, a Dutch start-up, to use their software to determine the expected output of its wind parks. Shell is building almost seventy wind turbines in the new Hollandse Kust Noord wind park, which is situated more...
