Thorntonbank Wind Farm
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Thorntonbank Wind Farm
OR:
Thorntonbank Wind Farm on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

The Thorntonbank Wind Farm (also known as C-Power) is an offshore
wind farm A wind farm, also called a wind park or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an exten ...
. It is the first offshore wind farm in Belgium. Electricity production started in early 2009, with a capacity of 30 MW. The capacity was increased to a total of 214 MW in 2012 and 325 MW in 2013.


Phases


First phase

The first phase was built by C-Power, at a cost of
€ The euro sign () is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists of a stylized letter E (or epsilon), crossed by t ...
153 million.Thorntonbank (Belgium) offshore wind farm
''4C'' . Retrieved: 27 October 2010. It was commissioned in June 2009.REpower turbines to Thornton Bank offshore wind farm expansion
''Renewable Energy Focus'', 26 November 2010. Accessed: 13 October 2011. The first phase of what will ultimately be a 325 MW wind farm was completed in September 2008. The six
REpower Senvion S.A. (called REpower Systems SE until 2014) was a German wind turbine manufacturer founded in 2001 in Germany, majority owned by a private equity firm. Senvion as REpower Systems, as it was initially called, was established in 2001 ...
5 MW turbines, which were installed on concrete gravity foundations, were linked to the Belgian power grid, giving a total rated capacity of 30 MW for the first stage. The full story of the design, engineering, construction and installation of the Thorntonbank Wind Farm (first phase) is told in an illustrated book that was published in November 2010.


Second and third phase

In these phases, a total of 48 additional wind turbines of 6.15MWp were installed. Phase 2, completed in October 2012, comprises the installation of 30 of the 48 wind turbines. These wind turbines have been installed on steel jacket foundations designed by OWEC Tower AS and assembled at the Smulders shipyard in
Hoboken, Antwerp Hoboken () is a southern Districts of Antwerp, district of the Arrondissements of Belgium, arrondissement and city of Antwerp, in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located at the Scheldt river. The name of the district has its origins in Middl ...
. In the third and last phase, completed in September 2013, the remaining 18 wind turbines were installed, bringing the total capacity to around 325 MW.Phase 2 complete


Environmental assessment

Research was by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) and the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO )


Financing

Thorntonbank was only the second offshore wind farm to be
project finance Project finance is the long-term financing of infrastructure and industrial projects based upon the projected cash flows of the project rather than the balance sheets of its sponsors. Usually, a project financing structure involves a number of eq ...
d.


Gallery

File:Windmill D1 (Thornton Bank).jpg, Wind turbine D1 File:Windmills D1-D6 (Thornton Bank) - final construction phase.jpg, Wind turbines D1 to D6 File:Windmill bases (Oostende - from southwest).jpg, Wind turbine bases under construction File:Windmill bases (Oostende - from northwest).jpg, Wind turbine bases under construction File:Offshore windpark Thorntonbank.jpg, As seen from the Belgian coast, demonstrating the
curvature of the Earth Spherical Earth or Earth's curvature refers to the approximation of the figure of the Earth as a sphere. The earliest documented mention of the concept dates from around the 5th century BC, when it appears in the writings of Greek philosophers. ...
; the more distant windmills look to be underwater


See also

*
Belwind Offshore Wind Farm The Belwind Wind Farm is located in Bligh Bank, from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, and has been built in two phases. It has a 330 MW production capacity and an estimated annual output of 1.1 TWh. Phase 1 had a 165 MW production ...
*
Wind power in Belgium Wind power in Belgium has seen significant advancements, starting with the generation of electricity from offshore wind farms in 2009. By 2020, the capacity of these offshore farms reached 2,262 megawatts (MW), matching the combined output of B ...
*
Energy in Belgium Energy in Belgium describes World energy resources and consumption, energy and Electricity generation, electricity production, consumption and import in Belgium. It is governed by the energy policy of Belgium, which is divided between several ...
*
List of offshore wind farms This article lists the largest offshore wind farms that are currently operational rated by nameplate capacity. It also lists the largest offshore wind farms currently under construction, the largest proposed offshore wind farms, and offshore ...
*
List of wind farms Lists of wind farms include: *List of onshore wind farms *List of offshore wind farms __NOTOC__ Wind farms by country * List of wind farms in Australia * List of wind farms in Canada * List of wind farms in China * List of offshore wind farms in ...


References


External links

*
Thornton Bank
RWE Innogy *
LORC Knowledge - Datasheet for Thornton Bank 1
{{Wind power Offshore wind farms in the North Sea Wind farms in Belgium Ostend Energy infrastructure completed in 2013 2013 establishments in Belgium