Thursday 13 October 2016

Dutch wind farms


I took these pictures on the way into IJmuiden on the ferry from Newcastle. They are probably the Princess Amalia wind farm although there are two separate wind farms in that section. Princess Amalia has a name plate capacity of 120MW so it is not as big as Robin Rigg. I wasn't expecting that. I thought continental wind power would be bigger. Robin Rigg claims to supply 117,000 households. The population of Cumbria is 500,000 so that might well be half of Cumbria. This Dutch wind farm might do 100,000 households.