With the Duurkenakker solar park, GOLDBECK SOLAR completes the first project to combine solar and wind energy. With an installed capacity of 64 MWp, around 20,000 households will be supplied with clean electricity.
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With the Duurkenakker solar park, GOLDBECK SOLAR completes the first project to combine solar and wind energy. With an installed capacity of 64 MWp, around 20,000 households will be supplied with clean electricity.
The 64 MWp plant in Duurkenakker in the Midden-Groningen region is already visually striking. The solar park surrounds a wind turbine on an area of around 50 hectares. “An exciting synergy,” explains Head of Solar Netherland Tobias Friedrich. “Duurkenakker is the first project that we have built together with the Dutch investor Sunvest and also the first in which a wind turbine is integrated.”
The combination also posed challenges for the construction logistics, explains Friedrich. Not only did the area for the wind turbine have to be kept clear, but also the access road for the delivery of the rotor blades. “When it comes to maintenance, you also have to bear in mind that ice forms on the rotor blades in winter and this can have an impact on the photovoltaic system.”
Duurkenakker was built in just seven months using modules from Suntech and inverters and transformers from Huawai. The combined solar and wind farm supplies around 20,000 households with clean electricity. In this way, 25,000 tons ofCO2 can be saved each year. GOLDBECK SOLAR installed a total of 270 MWp of capacity on Dutch land in 2020. Two further smaller projects, Veendam 3 and Goes, are to be handed over by the end of the year. Further information on the Duurkenakker project can be found in our news and on the reference page.
