Cooperative wind park Spinderwind

11 energy cooperatives together

Members of 11 energy cooperatives in the municipality of Tilburg and region of Hart van Brabant took the initiative for a wind farm in Tilburg in 2018. This together with Energiefonds Brabant. As of April 2020, the wind farm’s four wind turbines provide enough renewable electricity for 7,500 households.

Participation via Spinderdelen

Cooperative wind park De Spinder U.A. is 50% citizen-owned. The other 50% is from Energiefonds Brabant. In 2018, 691 cooperative members purchased so-called Spinder parts, collectively raising 1.5 million euros for the citizen wind farm. Investors receive a good return for their Spider shares. In addition, their participation supports local energy cooperatives in other sustainable projects.

Wind park Spinderwind has been operational since April 2020. The wind turbines now generate as much renewable electricity as 7,500 households consume. Want to read more about this citizen project? You can do so through the project website.

This is a special project for me because it was my very first project for GreenTrust! And also my very first experience in wind energy. I was immediately thrown into the deep end with such a complex development site. There are many stakeholders and the project came on an existing industrial site. So we had to consider various business activities, which continued as usual. In addition, we were dealing with contaminated soil. So plenty to learn for me – with great results!
Stan Reinders
Project Manager Construction

Role GreenTrust

As construction project manager, Stan was involved in the civil procurement and supervised construction. Klaas collaborated on funding and contracting and Lieuwe collaborated on the PPA. Tijmen and Jorick jointly supervised the permit process. In addition, Annelies performed various legal work and Romana was responsible for the technical design. Finally, Filippos and Senne are now responsible for operational management.