Shell and Eneco win right to build large Dutch offshore windfarm (updated)

Eneco Energy

15/12/2022 17:28

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       AMSTERDAM, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A joint venture of Shell
 SHEL.L  and Dutch energy company Eneco has won the right to
build an offshore wind farm with a capacity of 756 megawatts
(MW) in the North Sea, the Dutch government said on Thursday.
    The wind farm, located around 50 kilometres (31 miles) west
off the Dutch coast, is expected to be operational in 2026.
    The 54 turbines in the offshore windfarm should supply
around 3% of the total electricity demand of the Netherlands by
2026, the government said, enough to power around a million
households.
    Shell and Eneco will receive no subsidies for building the
site and won the tender with plans that would limit its impact
on nature above and below sea level, the government said.
    The Netherlands aims to increase its offshore wind capacity
to 21 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, as part of its bid to reduce its
carbon dioxide emissions by 55% relative to 1990 levels by that
time.
    So far, a total capacity of 2.5 GW is operational, while a
number of wind farms comparable in size to the one Shell and
Eneco will build are under construction.
    Last month, German energy company RWE was granted the right
to build another 750 MW wind farm in the Dutch part of the North
Sea, which should also come online in 2026.
 (Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
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