Ecowende intends to set a new ecological standard for building and operating wind farms in the North Sea, with minimal impact on the natural habitat of birds, bats and marine mammals, and with a thriving underwater world.
The joint venture is said to adhere to the high qualitative criteria set out in the non-price-focused tender from the Dutch government.
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This includes the creation of a bird corridor within the offshore wind farm layout, increasing the hub height to create more vertical space for birds, and integrating bird and bat detection and deterrence systems into the turbine design.
“This project has a strong emphasis on the integration of the wind farm into the local ecology, which is essential to underline the societal value of wind energy ,” said Nils de Baar , President of Vestas Northern & Central Europe.
The project has a grid connection capacity of 760 MW and an excess capacity of 20 MW to use the connection capacity as efficiently as possible, even when production is lower, said Vestas.
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Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has placed an order for 52 Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbines for the Hollandse Kust West VI offshore wind farm, located about 53 kilometres off the Dutch coast, near IJmuiden. Turbine installation at sea is expected to begin in the second quarter of
