Borssele Offshore Wind Farm (officially Borssele Wind Farm Zone) is an

offshore wind Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the Electricity generation, generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea. There are higher wind speeds offshore than on land, so offshore farms generate more elect ...

farm in the Dutch part of the

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, named for

Borssele Borssele is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. The municipality name is spelled with a single ''s'' while the name of the town is spe ...

(the nearest village), near the border with

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. The offshore area consists of 5 sites and 3 farms so far with a total capacity of 1502.5 MW.

Wind Farms

Borssele I & II

Borssele I & II consists of 94

Siemens Gamesa Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, S.A. was formed in 2017 in a merger of Siemens AG, Siemens' Wind Power division with Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, S.A.; it is a Spanish-German wind engineering company based in Zamudio, Biscay, Spain. The co ...

8 MW wind turbines for a total capacity of 752 MW. It was built by Ørsted. The tender for this farm took place in 2016. A total of 38 bids were received. On 5 July 2017, it was announced that Ørsted had won the tender. Construction of the wind farm began in January 2020 and the first electricity was generated in April 2020. By the end of 2020, the construction was finished. The official opening was on 6 September 2021. Ørsted tested cargo drones in 2024.

Borssele III & IV

Consists of 77 Vestas V164 9.5 MW wind turbines for a total capacity of 731,5 MW. Built by Blauwwind II, a consortium of

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Van Oord Royal Van Oord is a Dutch maritime contracting company that specializes in dredging, land reclamation and constructing man made islands. Royal Van Oord has undertaken many projects throughout the world, including land reclamation, dredging and bea ...

, Eneco and

Mitsubishi The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries. Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group traces its origins to the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company that existed from 1870 to 194 ...

. The tender for this farm was held in 2016. A total of 26 bids were submitted. On 12 December 2016, it was announced that Blauwwind II had won the tender.

Borssele V

Consists of 2 Vestas V164 9.5 MW wind turbines. The wind farm was built by Two Towers, a consortium of Van Oord Renewable Finance, Investri Offshore and Green Giraffe Holding.

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Wind Farms

Borssele I & II

Borssele III & IV

Borssele V

See also

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