233 results found for 'hollandse kust noord'

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  • 8 August 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Green Hydrogen, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    CrossWind, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has contracted Fores Engineering, a subsidiary of the Rosetti Marino Group, to assemble the 2.5 MW offshore electrolyser that Elogen will deliver for the now-operational Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project in the Netherlands. Fores Engineering’s scope includes detailed engineering, procurement, assembly, onshore yard integration, and commissioning […]

  • 8 May 2024
    Foundations, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Smulders has completed the loadout of the jacket foundation and the piles for the Hollandse Kust West Beta offshore substation in the Netherlands. On 25 April, the piles, fabricated by the Dutch company Sif, were loaded out in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. With a total weight of 900 tonnes and a length of up to 79 […]

  • 20 May 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The jacket foundation for the Hollandse Kust West Beta substation has left the Smulders yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, and is now being transported to the offshore wind farm site, approximately 53 kilometres off the coast of Egmond aan Zee. On 16 May, the 49-metres-high jacket left the yard in Vlissingen, after Smulders completed the […]

  • 17 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Two Dutch companies operating in the food and agro industries, Plukon and De Heus, have decided to buy electricity from Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell, Eneco, and Chubu, that owns the offshore wind farm which will be built at Hollandse Kust West (HKW) Site VI in the Netherlands. Rabobank’s new guarantee product, PPAssurance, made […]

  • 12 March 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    CrossWind, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has received a Project Certificate from the UK-headquartered Lloyd’s Register (LR) for the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. LR was invited to provide an independent assessment of the project in accordance with the IECRE operational document (OD) for Wind Farm Project […]

  • 11 June 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch provider of foundation installation equipment, CAPE Holland, has signed a contract with its compatriot Van Oord to supply Vibro Lifting Technology (VLT) for the installation of monopiles at Hollandse Kust West Site VI, where the Ecowende consortium will build what Van Oord said was “the most ecological wind farm yet”. Under the contract, CAPE […]

  • 2 August 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Boskalis, an offshore construction company, has completed the connection of all export cables and platforms for the offshore wind farm being developed by RWE in the Dutch North Sea. Off the coast of the Netherlands, Boskalis connected all the export cables the company recently installed for the shore connection that TenneT is providing for RWE’s […]

  • 25 June 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Project Updates

    A consortium of Boskalis and Orient Cable (NBOS) has completed the pull-in and burial of the second export cable for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust West Beta offshore grid connection at the landfall location in Velsen-Noord, the Netherlands. The 700 MW grid connection will link the offshore wind farm that RWE will build in the Dutch North […]

  • 29 April 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    The Netherlands’ previous goal to achieve 21 GW of offshore wind capacity by the end of 2031 has been postponed by one year, now targeting achievement by 2032. On 25 April, the office of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate sent a letter to the parliament on the progress of the 2030 Offshore Wind […]

  • 14 May 2024
    Vessels

    Van Oord’s new offshore installation vessel Boreas has been launched at the Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore shipyard in China. Van Oord ordered a self-elevating offshore installation vessel at the Yantai CIMC Raffles shipyard in October 2021. The first steel for Boreas was cut in July 2022 while the keel-laying ceremony was held at the end […]

  • 12 April 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, and the Dutch company GBM Works have signed a contract for deploying GBM’s noise reduction technology for the installation of three monopiles at the offshore wind farm Ecowende will build at Hollandse Kust West (HKW) Site VI in the Netherlands. GBM has developed an installation method called […]

  • 1 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Google has signed corporate power purchase agreements (CPPAs) with Shell and Eneco for 478 MW of energy capacity at two offshore wind farms the partners jointly own in the Netherlands: Hollandse Kust Noord and Hollandse Kust West VI. Together with the existing power purchase agreements Google previously signed in the Netherlands, the two offshore wind […]

  • 29 January 2024
    Business development, Grid Connection, Industry, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Offshore wind farms in the German and Dutch North Sea generated over 30 TWh of renewable power, according to the German-Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT. The TSO transmitted around 19.24 TWh of wind energy from the German North Sea to land in 2023 and another 11.54 TWh entered the Netherlands, which is an increase […]

  • 11 January 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The grid connection for Hollandse Kust (west) Alpha is ready for commissioning after receiving the grid readiness certificate three months ahead of schedule. Now that Hollandse Kust (west) Alpha has received the certificate, the wind farm operator Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell and Eneco, can connect the turbines for its 760 MW Hollandse Kust […]

  • 15 February 2024
    Business development, Environment, R&D, Research & Development

    Ecowende has teamed up with Robin Radar Systems, MIDO, and DHI to implement a framework for bird and bat monitoring at its offshore wind farms.    The technologies, which include Robin Radar’s MAX bird and bat radar systems, DHI’s sensor integration and artificial intelligence (AI) species recognition solution MUSE, and MIDO’s power-generating floating platform FLORA […]

  • 20 December 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Green Hydrogen, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm, built by CrossWind, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, went into operation on 20 December. After final commissioning, the offshore wind farm will add 759 MW of generation capacity to the Dutch electricity grid and achieve the 4.5 GW offshore wind target the Netherlands set for 2023, […]

  • 21 December 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Ecowende and Sif Holding will collaborate on the construction of Ecowende’s offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust West site VI, located about 53 kilometres off the Dutch coast, near IJmuiden. The collaboration for this project between the offshore wind farm developer, a joint venture of Shell and Eneco, and Sif Holding dates to February 2023 when […]

  • 20 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The 69th and final Siemens Gamesa SG 11.0-200 DD wind turbine was installed at the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm in the Dutch North Sea on Thursday, 19 October, CrossWind, the owner and developer of the wind farm said. The final turbine’s three 97-metre long blades were lifted into position on Thursday evening, […]

  • 3 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    66 out of 69 wind turbines have been installed at the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm will feature 69 Siemens Gamesa’s SG 11.0-200 DD wind turbines. The first unit was installed in April this year by the jack-up Seajacks Scylla. […]

  • 21 July 2023
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has completed installing and burying inter-array cables at CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Van Oord’s cable-laying vessel Nexus and trencher Dig-It, a remotely-operated vehicle operated from Subsea Viking, have installed a web of 69 inter-array cables measuring 140 kilometres in total. The offshore wind farm is […]

  • 8 October 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    The zero-subsidy tender for the Hollandse Kust (Noord) offshore wind farm zone will be launched in the fourth quarter of 2019, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) revealed at the Offshore Wind Conference (OWC). During the workshop held in cooperation with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Rijkswaterstaat and TSO TenneT, RVO.nl said that the appeals for the Hollandse Kust (Noord) grid […]

  • 14 December 2015
    Authorities, R&D

    Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has invited tenders for certification of site studies at the Hollandse Kust wind farm zones. An agreement will be signed with a tenderer who is able to carry out the certification of various site studies that will be performed at the offshore wind farm zones Hollandse Kust Zuid (South Holland Coast) and […]

  • 30 July 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The CrossWind consortium of Shell and Eneco has selected Van Oord as the Balance of Plant contractor for the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind project. As the Balance of Plant contractor, Van Oord’s activities encompass the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of the foundations, the inter-array cables, and transportation and installation of the wind turbines. […]

  • 25 October 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    TenneT TSO has issued a tender seeking site preparation work for the onshore substation that will collect electricity from the Hollandse Kust (Noord) offshore wind project. In the tender, TenneT is looking for a contractor to prepare the site in Wijk aan Zee on which the onshore substation for Hollandse Kust (Noord) will be located. The value […]

  • 20 June 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    The 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm has produced its first green power and delivered it via TenneT’s offshore grid to the Dutch mainland. “We often talk about milestones along a project’s journey, and CrossWind has had a number to date, but to have the wind turbines generating green electricity safely and successfully […]

  • 12 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a EUR 500 million loan to finance the development of the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind project. The loan application was submitted by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Located 18.5 kilometres off the west coast of the Netherlands, the Hollandse Kust (noord) wind farm consists of two sites […]