Whitehelm Capital, Groningen Seaports and Royal Vopak today announce their intention to jointly invest in a 27 MW solar park. The solar photovoltaic field will be one of the largest currently in The Netherlands. The new solar park will be situated on 19 ha of land adjacent to Vopak Terminal Eemshaven, land which is currently…
With an installed capacity of approximately 8,000 MW, Eemshaven is a major energy port, and the expected increase in sustainably produced electricity from offshore wind farms and solar energy will only increase this immense figure. In order to ‘dispose of’ all this electricity on the network, the transport capacity will need to be further expanded,…
Yesterday/Today the cable for the subsea electricity connection between the Netherlands and Denmark was brought ashore in Eemshaven in the Netherlands. From the ship Ulisse on the Wadden Sea, the cable was pulled ashore via a duct installed in the sea wall for that purpose. The cable will then be connected to the converter station…
At the site of Groningen Seaports in Geefsweer – between Delfzijl and Appingedam – preparatory work has started on the construction of the Geefsweer solar park, which Solarfields is developing together with Groningen Seaports. This currently involves the construction of a temporary road, the felling of some trees (which are being replanted), the further preparation…
Call for 4-6 GW of wind farms north of the Wadden Sea The Northern Netherlands industrial cluster aims to be one of Europe’s most sustainable industrial areas by 2030. The ending of gas production in Groningen and the obligations laid down in the Climate Agreement have prompted the region to rapidly introduce sustainability to respond…
Groningen Seaports is committed to the further development of hydrogen infrastructure in its ports Groningen Seaports and Pipelife have signed a cooperation agreement to build the infrastructure for the transport of green hydrogen in the port of Delfzijl and in Eemshaven. The port authority of Groningen is thus taking an important step in the further…
A good opportunity for Eemshaven to strengthen its position as the offshore wind port of the Netherlands On the 26th of March the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy published the new follow-up roadmap for offshore wind energy. This sets out the further roll-out of wind at sea for the years 2024-2030. The province…
The works for the COBRA electricity cable between Denmark and Eemshaven are going according to plan. The cables will reach Dutch soil to the north of the NorNed converter station. NorNed is the sea cable link with Norway. The link will be put into operation in 2019. TenneT is also involved in the preparations for…
The transformers were transported from the Siemens factory in Nuremberg in Germany using a special trailer and then by ship to the port of Eemshaven. Yesterday the transformers were hoisted from the ship, placed on a trailer, and then driven to the COBRAcable construction site at Eemshaven. Undersea electricity cableCOBRAcable is a cable connection with…
Building of Danish Ørsted’s wind farm Borkum Riffgrund II gets underway On 21 February last a major hoisting operation took place at the heavy cargo wharf in Beatrixhaven. Working together with the Jan de Nul Group, Wagenborg Nedlift hoisted a large hydraulic offshore pile driver of IHC IQIP on board the installation vessel Vole au…
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