The state of the Dutch offshore wind industry

摘要

A year ago I wrote in this magazine that the Dutch offshore wind industry was active somewhere in almost every offshore wind farm project in the world, but not so much in the Netherlands itself. Not because the Dutch projects were using non-Dutch companies, but simply because there was only one Dutch project, the Luchterduinen Wind Farm, that was actually in a state of practical activity, and one Dutch company, Van Oord, that had a total EPC contract with Eneco for the work. Since then the state of affairs has not changed much. Although there is authorisation for a further twelve wind farms to be built there has not been much tangible work evident in the past twelve months. We must assume that there is a lot of work going on in the background, but not much news of these wind farms is being released.