Wind farm Zeewolde
Wind Farm Zeewolde B.V. was built as the largest Dutch onshore wind farm and the largest community project in Europe until mid-2022.
It was built on the outskirts of the municipality of Zeewolde, east of Almere. In this area of more than 300 square kilometres, more than 90% of farmers, residents and entrepreneurs are shareholders. Together, they are ensuring that the 220 solitary wind turbines currently standing in the area are replaced by 83 large wind turbines (up to approximately 220 metres high) in linear formations.
Wind farm Zeewolde will supply almost three times as much clean energy as the current wind turbines. wind farm Zeewolde B.V., the initiator of the wind farm, is responsible for both the construction of the new turbines and the dismantling of the current wind turbines.
Three Contracts
The realisation of the project is divided into three major contracts. Two UAV-GC contracts that together form the Balance of Plant, namely one for the transformer station and the connection to the TenneT network and the second contract for the construction of the park roads, crane platforms, foundations and cabling within the park between the turbines and to the transformer station. The third contract concerns the delivery and installation of the wind turbines.
Aratis and Zeewolde Wind Farm
Aratis assisted wind farm Zeewolde BV from the preparatory stage of the project, including finalising the contract strategy. In addition, together with technical advisors, the two Balance of Plant UAV-GC contracts were put on the market and two contractors were contracted. During the implementation, Aratis took care of the contract management for these contracts. Such a large project with many plot owners and users also requires good structuring of information and process control. With the project information management system (PIMS) from Aryosystems, Aratis was able to do this properly, such as creating field passes and applying intelligent requirements management.
Aratis is proud to have been part of this large project involving many consultants and stakeholders.
The experts involved in this project:
All axperts
Shahnam Mochawer
Managing Director, Aryo Systems
Wybran Jansen
Partner & Senior Consultant
Bastiaan Burger
Senior Consultant
Ernst van Hulten
Senior Consultant
Jeroen van der Sloot
Senior Consultant