Energy provider Vattenfall revealed its recent participation in the Cost and Biodiversity Nature Inclusive Energy (KOBINE) initiative on Biodiversity Day. The costs and advantages of initiatives that include nature are mapped out in this study. In the Hollandse Kust Zuid...
Vattenfall has revealed that a vibrated pitch cylinder caused the collapse of the Windpark Eemmeerdijk wind turbine in Flevoland, the Netherlands. The incident, which occurred in January, prompted an investigation into the design and safety of the turbine. Vattenfall reports...
Energy company Vattenfall has sold its four wind turbines of the onshore wind farm Nij Hiddum-Houw near Cornwerd in the province of Friesland to the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân and the Water Authority Wetterskip Fryslân. Wind farm Nij Hiddum-Houw consists of...
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...
Last week, activities to lay underwater cable routes in the IJsselmeer for the nearshore part of the Windplanblauw wind power project in the northwest corner of Flevoland started. Windplanblauw reports that the shoalbuster Barney was deployed in the first week...
Vattenfall and Energiecoöperatie Echteld-Lienden will assess how the environment may impact Energiepark Echteld-Lienden development. In order to collaboratively evaluate how the environment might be involved in and benefited from the development of the Energiepark Echteld-Lienden along the A15 in the...
Dutch vessel operator Acta Marine has won a tender to provide a service operations vessel (SOV) for the Vattenfall-operated DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. The contract, awarded by DanTysk Sandbank Offshore Wind, a 51/49...
One of the iconic rainbow coloured two-bladed wind turbines along the Eemmeerdijk (N704) in the province of Flevoland collapsed today. The wind turbine is part of Vattenfall’s Eemmeerdijk wind farm, the last wind farm to hold NedWind 55 wind turbines...
Vattenfall has reached the halfway point in the construction of the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, which is being built 18 kilometers from the coast between The Hague and Zandvoort. “We’re halfway towards having constructed the...
Last week, the last of 140 monopile foundations for the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore wind farm was installed. The installation of the TP-less foundations, fabricated by Sif Group at Maasvlakte 2, was performed by Seaway 7, using...
