Vattenfall Concludes Turbine Installation at Wind-Solar-Battery Project in South Holland

Vattenfall has announced that it has completed installing the six Nordex turbines at its €61m wind-solar-battery project in south Holland.

The Swedish company said it kept construction delays to a “minimum” regardless of COVID-19 restrictions and a wet winter.

The wind farm, located in the Goeree-Overflakkee region of South Holland, has a capacity of 22MW.

Haringvliet Zuid energy park site manager Leon de Graaf said: “Due to the coronavirus outbreak, our work was affected.

“For example, we are normally three or four colleagues working to connect the cables. Now we could only have two people working in order to keep the distance of one and a half metres.

In addition, we had a lot of bad weather last winter, with a lot of rain and wind. All of this had an impact on the planning. But luckily it went well in April and we were able to continue working quickly, and in the end construction delays were limited.”

Vattenfall will next install the 38MW photovoltaic array and the 12 megawatt-hour battery storage system with the aim of completing the hybrid project by the end of this year.

BMW has supplied the 12 containerised batteries that will be installed at the solar farm site.

Once operational the plant will have a total output of 60MW.