Van Oord announced last week the completion of the first phase in the construction of the offshore Belwind wind farm, off the coast of Belgium. The wind farm now has the foundations for each wind turbine installed. The foundations, consisting of a monopile and a tower platform (TP), weigh from 410-660 tons each, with each TP weighing at more than 160 tons. Additionally, as part of this phase, the company has also installed the offshore transformer station.
Everything is now ready for the 55 wind turbines to be placed on top of the foundations. Each wind turbines will have 3 MW of capacity, which will total in 165 MW of installed capacity at the Belwind wind farm, once completed.
[source: Van Oord]
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[...] of the first wind turbine at the Belwind offshore wind farm, off the coast of Belgium. Recently, Van Oord has completed installations of tower foundations, so this development marks the beginning of the final stages of development for the Belwind wind [...]