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.

Overview Energy Park Eemshaven	Energy Park Eemshaven

Core data

Overall surface: 344 hectare
Available: 99 hectares

Existing companies

Electrabel, Norned, TCN Telehouse Eemshaven, Nuon Magnum, TenneT, Growind, RWE Power AG, Eemsmond Energie

Eemshaven: THE energy port (7,500 MW!!) of northwest Europe

The most booming industry in Eemshaven is energy. A huge area in Eemshaven is determined for the development of energy related businesses. It is called Energy Park Eemshaven. 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. It is expected that in a few years 35% of energy (7,500 MW) is produced in Eemshaven, sufficient to supply 50% of the Netherlands of electricity!

Business activities

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, it is possible to transmit power from Norway to the Netherlands and vice versa. TCN Eemsdelta has built a huge datacenter of which Google is the largest customer. Nuon builds now a multifuel power plant with a capacity of 1,200 MW. Nuon produces energy by using coals, biomass, and gas as raw material. Nuon invests about € 1.5 billion. Finally Tennet builds a transformer station to bring the produced energy on the Dutch electricity network.

RWE

Wednesdag 17 December 2008 the German energyproducer RWE together with Groningen Seaports signed a contract for an industrial site of 54 hectares on Energy Park Eemshaven. RWE builds here a coal power plant with a capacity of 1,600 MW. Preparation work has already been started. RWE invests over € 2.2 billion in its power plant in Eemshaven.

Artist impression power plant RWE in Eemshaven

Eemsmond Energie

Tuesday 31 March 2009 Groningen Seaports signed together with the Swiss company Advanced Power the groundcontract to establish a power plant on Energy Park Eemshaven under the name Eemsmond Energie. Eemsmond Energie intends to build a fully gasheated power plant on a site of 17 hectares with a capacity of 1,200 Megawatt.

Windenergy

Recently 88 giant wind turbines have been built in the Eemshaven as well, each with a capacity of 3 MWe. 21 turbines are situated in the inner area of the Eemshaven and haven been built by the Danish firm Vestas by order of the consortium Growind. The other turbines have been built by the German company Enercon by order of Essent (Windpark Westereems and 'border' Eemshaven) and Electrabel (Windpark Eems).

Eemshaven LNG Terminal

Essent, Vopak and Gasunie have chosen Eemshaven to build there a LNG Terminal (Liquefied Natural Gas) with a capacity of 5 - 12 BCM (billion m3). The final decision to invest (± € 600 million) is expected early 2010.

LNG Terminal Essent/Vopak/Gasunie	Artist impression 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. Robert van Tuinen (+31 (0)6-22243300).

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