AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: AkzoNobel NV is leading a consortium of companies, including DSM, Google and Philips, in signing a multi-year contract for the purchase of wind power from Bouwdokken Wind Park.
Following the consortium’s earlier announcement of a collaboration to build the Krammer Wind Park in the Dutch province of Zeeland, the parties have now also agreed to buy electricity from the new Bouwdokken Wind Park, also in Zeeland.
The nine turbines in this wind park, each with a capacity of 4.2 MW, are currently being built on the artificial island, Neeltje Jans. They are scheduled to be operational in the first quarter of 2018.
The Krammer and Bouwdokken wind parks have a total capacity of over 140 MW, enough to power approximately 140,000 households.
"This marks the next big step toward a new way of supplying energy for the leading industry in the Netherlands. We are demonstrating our commitment to sustainability and shaping a future without CO2," said Marcel Galjee, Director Energy, AkzoNobel on behalf of the four companies in the consortium.
In the Netherlands, an energy agreement between the government and companies aims to reduce CO2 emissions by using 14 percent renewable energy by 2020. By 2050, CO2 emissions should be reduced to zero.
AkzoNobel and the other three consortium members decided to examine the potential for cooperation in 2014, and have since embedded sustainable energy into their common long-term strategy.
About the consortium
AkzoNobel leads a consortium including DSM, Google and Philips in a unique collaboration in the Netherlands. In 2014, they entered into a long-term agreement to jointly buy energy from renewable energy projects. Through the consortium, they can jointly explore opportunities in the field of renewable energy procurement. This new approach could lead to new ways for sustainable projects to increase financing from banks and equity investors, and help to realise the construction of new wind farms.
Bouwdokken Wind Park
E-Connection Project BV established Bouwdokken Wind Farm on the dams of the former Bouwdokhavens on the Neeltje Jans in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Eight of the planned nine turbines are currently built. These each have a capacity of 4.2 MW, and starting in the spring of 2018, they will all together produce 128.6 GWh of electricity annually.
This is similar to the average annual electricity consumption of approximately 42,000 households. Bouwdokken Wind Park utilises the unique combination of the Oosterschelde: water barrier, nature, wind energy and recreation.
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