ROTTERDAM,
12
May
2016
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17:05
Europe/Amsterdam

Eneco, Shell and Van Oord take part in Dutch offshore windfarms tender

A consortium of Eneco, Shell and Van Oord has made a bid to participate in the Dutch government tender to build two windfarms off the Dutch coast. The consortium has selected MHI Vestas as the preferred wind turbine supplier.

The wind power tender comprises of two permits to build and operate two windfarms of 350 MW maximum installed capacity each – enough to power the equivalent of 825,000 households. The two windfarm sites, called Borssele I and II, are located 22 km off the coast of Zeeland.

 

Note for editors:

For more information on the tender process: http://english.rvo.nl/subsidies-programmes/sde/sde-offshore-wind-energy

 

For more information please contact:

Eneco Group, Toby Ellson, manager media relations

Tel: +31 (0)6 310 477 63

E: toby.ellson@eneco.com

 

Shell Mediacontacten:

Tel: +31 (0)70 377 8750

E: media-nl@shell.com

 

Van Oord, Robert de Bruin, head corporate communication and markets

Tel: +31 (0)6 534 408 90

E: Robert.debruin@vanoord.com