Siemens turbines get nod for 600MW Dutch offshore wind zone

Typhoon plans to use Siemens 3.6MW machines like these at Burbo Bank in the UK

Typhoon Offshore has announced its intention to use Siemens turbines to equip the 600MW of capacity in the Dutch North Sea that it purchased last year from Germany’s Bard.

Last summer, with Bard in search of a buyer, Amsterdam-based investment firm Typhoon bought the rights to the Gemini project (then known as Bard-Nederland), which will be broken into two 300MW blocks. The project is likely to be the last offshore wind farm built in Dutch waters before the end of the decade due to the government’s about-turn on renewables.

Bard, which as recently as last month claimed it was “weeks” away from clinching an indicative takeover offer, had initially planned to use 120 of its own 5MW…

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