Northwind Offshore Wind Farm

Northwind is an offshore wind farm located on the Lodewijkbank in the Belgian part of the North Sea. The wind farm was commissioned in 2014 and is the third offshore wind project in the Belgian North Sea after the Thorntonbank and Belwind wind farms.

Northwind
Country
  • Belgium
Coordinates51°37′00″N 2°54′00″E
StatusOperational
Commission date
  • 2014
Wind farm
Type
Max. water depth
  • 29 m (95 ft)
Distance from shore
  • 37 km (23 mi)
Rotor diameter
  • 112 m (367 ft)
Site area
  • 14.5 km2 (5.6 sq mi)
Power generation
Units operational72 × 3 MW
Make and modelVestas V112-3.0MW (72)
Nameplate capacity
  • 216 MW
External links
Websiteparkwind.eu/projects/northwind

The wind farm consists of 72 Vestas V112 wind turbines with a capacity of 3 MW each, giving the farm a total capacity of 216 MW. [1][2]

See also

References
  1. "Northwind". Belgian Offshore Platform. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  2. "Northwind". Parkwind. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
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