Eemshaven - Energy Park

Energy Park Eemshaven is an industrial site for Environment, Energy, Recycling, and Waste related industries, with the focus on energy. The site is located in the eastern part of the Eemshaven, around the Wilhelminahaven and between the Doekegatkanaal and the powerplant of Electrabel.

Energy Park Eemshaven with the contours of the LNG-basin and Nuon	Energy Park Eemshaven with in front Electrabel

Core data

Overall surface: 344 hectare
Available: 153 hectare

Existing companies

Electrabel, Norned, TCN Eemsdelta, Nuon Magnum, Growind

THE energy port (7500 MWe!) of northwest Europe

Energy Park Eemshaven is an industrial site for environment, energy, recycling and waste related industries, with the focus on energy. Not only production of energy, but also consumption, which means a sustainable solution. It is a park where supply and demand meet each other. The power plant of Electrabel (2,400 MWe) already determines the skyline of Eemshaven for years and plans to extend its capacity. NorNed is a joint project of Statnett and TenneT to install a submarine high-voltage cable between Norway and the Netherlands. Via this cable, the longest high-voltage cable in the world, we will be able to transmit power from Norway to the Netherlands and vice versa. The construction of the 740 MWe booster station is almost ready. TCN Eemsdelta has started constructing a huge datacenter. The building activities have almost been finished. Next to that both Essent and Nuon choose Eemshaven as place of business. Essent wants to establish a LNG Terminal (Liquefied Natural Gas) with a capacity of 5-12 BCM (billion m3) and Nuon is willing to construct a multifuel power plant of 1,200 MWe. Nuon has already decided to invest in Eemshaven and it is expected that Essent will decide tot invest in the middle of the year 2008. RWE, a German energy supplier, is also interested to start an establishment in Eemshaven and has far advanced plans to construct there a pulverized coal power plant, with a capacity of 1,600 MWe. In order to reduce the carbon emissions research is started on the carbon capture and underground storage. Finally 68 giant wind turbines are planned in the Eemshaven as well, each with a capacity of 3 MWe. To facilitate all these industries Groningen Seaports has been started raising the industrial sites and is also preparing deepening the fairway to Eemshaven as well as Eemshaven itself, extending the Wilhelminahaven by 600 metres in length, and digging a new harbour to accommodate the LNG vessels.

LNG Terminal Essent	Multifuel power plant Nuon	Power plant RWE and Energy Park Eemshaven

Infrastructure

Energy Park Eemshaven is located near to the Doekegatkanaal (which is the entrance of the Eemshaven) with a direct connection to the open sea (Eems). The infrastructure has not been developed at the moment; however, it is possible to push on a railway connection to the area and to connect the roads to the auto ways N33 (Eemshaven-Assen) and N46 (Eemshaven-Groningen).

Business allowed

Up to environment classification 1-6

Contact

If you would like to have additional information on Energy Park Eemshaven, or if you consider to open up a new business at this location, please contact the account manager at Groningen Seaports Mr. Gerko van IJsselmuiden via phone +31 (0)6-22243300.

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