The Blauwwind consortium has started offshore construction at its over 731MW Borssele 3&4 offshore wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands.
Consortium member Van Oord is tackling installation work at the project and its Aeolus jack-up vessel has hammered home the first of 77 Sif-made tubular foundations to feature 22km off the coast of Zeeland.
The foundations will support MHI Vestas V164 9.5MW turbines, which Van Oord will install at the project next year.
The Dutch contractor will also lay the 731.5MW project’s Prysmian-made array wires using its cable lay vessel Nexus.
The project will connect to TenneT’s Borssele Beta substation which will be installed next year.
Borssele 3&4 is due to be fully commissioned by early 2021.
Blauwwind is made up of Partners Group (45%), Shell (20%), DGE (15%), Eneco Group (10%) and Van Oord (10%).