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First turbines up at Luchterduninen

4C Offshore | Lewis Holdsworth
By: Lewis Holdsworth 07/04/2015 4C Offshore
The first 3.0MW Vestas turbine has been installed at Eneco's Luchterduninen today, all parts for the first 8 turbines have been loaded onto Van Oords 'Aeolus' to be installed within the next couple of days.

The wind farm is located 23km from shore and it's due to have a total of 43 turbines installed. The final foundation was installed previously on 17th October 2014, the foundations took a total of 3 months to install.

The substation was installed 18th February 2015 on the Eneco Luchterduinen Offshore wind farm. The vessel Rambiz installed the substation from the port of Ijmuiden.

The components of the wind turbines (tower, nacelle, blades) shall be transported from their construction location to the port of Esbjerg in Denmark. The Aeolus has sufficient capacity for the transportation and offshore installation of all the components of eight wind turbines at once. It shall take the Aeolus 30 hours to sail from Esbjerg to Luchterduinen wind farm. The installation of a single wind turbine, which includes moving the vessel to different positions, takes about one day.
The V112 type turbines, produced by MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, have a capacity of 3 Megawatt each. They will be placed on towers which are 62 metres high, which in turn will be placed on top of foundations that extend 17 metres above sea level. The blades have a length of 54 metres.
The development of Eneco Luchterduinen wind farm at a distance of 23 kilometres off the coast between Noordwijk and Zandvoort is a joint project between an energy company Eneco and Mitsubishi Corporation. The 43 wind turbines shall generate green electricity for nearly 150,000 households.

The wind farm is expected to be generating power around late 2015.

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