The main contractor for the development of the onshore cable is Joulz, part of the Eneco Group, and drilling related to the development is being carried out by Visser & Smit Hanab.
Electricity will be transported to the shore by means of a 23km long 150kV cable embedded in the seafloor. The 8km onshore section will run from the beach at Noordwijk to a substation in Sassenheim and then be fed into the national grid.
The entire length of this cable will be underground with 80% needing to be installed at a depth of 20 to 25m using a process of directional drilling.
Construction of the onshore section is taking place in phases between October 2013 and December 2014. Offshore construction is expected to start in the summer of 2014.
When completed at the end of 2015, the project will include 43 turbines located 23km off the coast of the Dutch cities of Noordwijk and Zandvoort. It will generate renewable power for nearly 150,000 households.
Eneco already has one other windfarm in the Dutch section of the North Sea. The Princess Amalia windfarm was completed in 2008.
