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Onshore Wind farm Volkerak

Location

Volkerak locks, Willemstad, Noord Brabant

Number of turbines

11 x 0,85 MW

Shaft height

44 meter

Installed capacity

9.35 MW

Electricity production (in annual consumption of average Dutch households)

4,800

In production since

2005

 

Along the Volkerak, near the Volkerak locks and Willemstad on the Haringvliet, a total of seventeen wind turbines were placed between 1991 and 1994. These turbines had a modest capacity of 0.5 MW (megawatt). In 2005, these wind turbines were replaced by eleven new ones, each with a capacity of 0.85 MW. So, in total the wind farm has an installed capacity of 9.35 MW.