Dutch energy company Eneco is to buy electricity from SwifterwinT’s 37 turbines at the 250MW Windplanblauw wind farm complex in the Netherlands.
The turbines will produce 780 gigawatt-hours of electricity from 2023, when Windplanblauw’s current 74 turbines will be replaced by 61 bigger machines.
Windplanblauw is located in the municipalities of Dronten and Lelystad, located in the northwest corner of the province of Flevoland.
The power purchase agreement covers the onshore portion of the project, with the remaining turbines to be offshore.
Construction will start in 2021 and is expected to be completed at the beginning of 2023.
SwifterwinT, which is a collaboration of more than 150 entrepreneurs, local residents and turbine owners from the rural Swifterbant area, is developing the project with Vattenfall.
Eneco Energy Trade director Mark Belloni said: “The collaboration with SwifterwinT takes us a good step closer to the further realisation of Eneco’s strategy.
“This contract allows us to switch even more customers in Flevoland and the rest of the Netherlands to domestic green power.
“The power purchase agreement with this wind farm will increase the installed capacity of Eneco’s wind energy portfolio to around 2500MW in 2023.
“This corresponds to the annual electricity consumption of 2.4 million households.”
SwifterwinT chair Stephan de Clerck said: “We are confident that we have concluded a good agreement from a commercial as well as a collaboration perspective”.
“This is a significant milestone for us. We are pleased with this collaboration, not just in view of the excellent result, but also because we have seen that Eneco has an eye for the area as a whole.
“Together with this partner we are working on local energy supply.”
Source4Energy and Windunie provided SwifterwinT with advice during the PPA process.