Wind park Hartelkanaal

Technical challenge

From 2009 to 2015, wind park Hartelkanaal was redeveloped and built on behalf of Investment Engineering Projects. The wind park has eight wind turbines with a combined capacity of 24 MW. Special challenge: the limited location.

Technically challenging project

The eight wind turbines of wind park Hartelkanaal are located between the N15 and the Hartelkanaal in Rotterdam. Space here is limited. This made construction a solid technical challenge!

Together, the wind turbines generate an average of 68 GWh of green electricity per year. This could supply green power to 18,000 households.

Hartelkanaal is Greenchoice’s first wind park. The energy supplier launched a contest to name the wind turbines. They became: Rüzgar, Ventus, Viento, Vind, Tuuli, Vjetar, Umoya and Vindur. These are the words for “wind” in Turkish, Latin, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, Croatian, Zulu and Icelandic. Want to know more about this project? See also the project website.

I can say with certainty that wind park Hartelkanaal is technically the most complex project I have ever worked on. Building eight wind turbines in a space the size of a “postage stamp” was no easy task. Still, it succeeded and I am proud of that!
Jeroen Boerkamps
Contract manager of Hartelkanaal Wind Farm

Role GreenTrust

For wind park Hartelkanaal, Jeroen handled development and construction on behalf of GreenTrust. Romana took care of the execution of the technical design. Filippos manages the park.


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