The 759MW Hollandse Kust Noord wind park (pictured), located off the coast of Egmond aan Zee, is now operational.
The wind farm was built by CrossWind, a JV between Shell and Eneco.
The completion of Hollandse Kust Noord will achieve a target in the Netherlands of more than 4.5GW of offshore wind by the end of 2023.
With Hollandse Kust Noord, CrossWind has built a subsidy-free wind park that is expected to produce at least 3.3TWh of electricity.
This corresponds to 2.8% of electricity demand in the Netherlands.
Hollandse Kust Noord, together with other offshore wind farms including Borssele and Hollandse Kust Zuid, currently supply 15.8% of the Netherlands’ electricity needs, a goal that was agreed more than 10 years ago in the Dutch Energy Agreement in its Roadmap 2023.
Tjalling de Bruin, director of CrossWind, said: “Our philosophy is ‘We deliver, we innovate, we share,’ and that’s what we did.
“I am proud of the team and all the partners with whom we have safely developed this wind park in record time.
“We look forward to realising the innovations within the park that will help future wind parks always deliver electricity, even when the wind is not blowing.
“And we look forward to sharing this knowledge to accelerate the energy transition.”