Offshore staff
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands – Van Oord’s Aeolus has installed 77 foundations for Blauwwind’s Borssele III & IV wind farm in the Dutch North Sea.
The company’s cable-laying vessel Nexus has also installed four out of the 12 cable strings. The project will soon start with the installation of the 9.5-MW wind turbines supplied by MHI Vestas.
As the Balance of Plant contractor, Van Oord is responsible for the design, engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of the foundations and inter array cables.
Located 22 km (14 mi) off the coast of the province of Zeeland, the 731.5-MW Borssele III & IV wind farm is expected to provide power for about 825,000 Dutch households.
Blauwwind consists of Partners Group (45%), Shell (20%), DGE (15%), Eneco Group (10%), and Van Oord (10%). The consortium has signed power purchase agreements with Shell and Eneco Group, which stipulate that they will both purchase 50% of the energy generated by the wind farms for a period of 15 years.
04/22/2020
