Almost one year after installation started, the 24th and final nearshore turbine of wind farm Windplanblauw (pictured) has been installed.
Windplanblauw is a Dutch repowering project from Vattenfall and SwifterwinT replacing 74 turbines with 61 new and more powerful ones, of which 24 are built in the IJsselmeer lake.
With both onshore and nearshore turbines now completed the project is counting down to its official inauguration in August.
They replace the 28 machines previously located in the lake.
The two rows of GE Cypress 5.5 MW turbines have a combined capacity of 132MW, producing the equivalent to electricity consumption of 130.000 Dutch households.
Vattenfall owns 14 of the nearshore units.
Project manager Matthew May said: “Building nearshore is quite challenging from a technical perspective and this project definitely cost its share of blood, sweat, and tears, but I think we managed to create a worthy replacement of the Irene Vorrink wind farm, Windplanblauw’s well-loved predecessor.
“Windplanblauw nearshore turned out to be quite an elegant wind farm, something about the proportions of the turbines and its foundations rising above the water, the form of the blades.”