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Full tilt: giant offshore wind farm opens in North Sea
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: May 15th, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/09/full-til...
Dutch officials have opened what is being billed as one of the worlds largest offshore wind farms, with 150 turbines spinning far out in the North Sea. Over the next 15 years the Gemini windpark ... will meet the energy needs of about 1.5 million people. At full tilt the windpark has a generating capacity of 600 megawatts and will help supply 785,000 Dutch households with renewable energy, according to the company. We are now officially in the operational stage, the companys managing director Matthias Haag said, celebrating the completion of a project first conceived in 2010. The 2.8bn ($3bn) project is a collaboration between the Canadian independent renewable energy company Northland Power, wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Wind Power, Dutch maritime contractor Van Oord and waste processing company HVC. Gemini would contribute about 13% of the countrys total renewable energy supply and about 25% of its wind power. The Netherlands remains dependant on fossil fuels which still make up about 95% of its energy supply, according to a 2016 report from the ministry of economics affairs. The Dutch government has committed to ensuring 14% of its energy comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar power by 2020, and 16% by 2023, with the aim of being carbon neutral by 2050. Gemini is seen as a stepping stone in the Netherlands and has shown that a very large project can be built on time, and in a very safe environment, Haag said.
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