Wind park BCT

Wind park BCT is part of the Business Centre Treeport industrial estate along the A16 on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium. GreenTrust is involved in the following phases of this wind farm, consisting of two Nordex wind turbines:

Operational Management
Development
Tendering
Financing
Construction

Quiet

The wind farm was completed in 2023 and produces approximately 22 GWh per year. Nordex is responsible for both the N149 wind turbines and the foundations. The N149 has, as the type indicates, a rotor diameter of 149 meters. It is also a relatively quiet wind turbine because the blades are equipped with serrations. This is a sawtooth pattern on the edge of the rotor blade that helps improve the airflow over the turbine blade and thus also reduce noise. This method is taken from nature, as owls also have these serrated edges on their wings.

For me, the development and financing of BCT’s wind park was unlike any other project. In the first place because, in addition to being a legal advisor, I also fulfilled the role of project manager. Instructive and a very nice insight into what is involved in the development and financing of a wind farm, including non-legal aspects. In addition, it was very interesting that our client is mainly developing and realizing a distribution center, which means that the planning of our wind farm is not leading but that of the distribution center – an exciting playing field. Finally, the dynamics of the Wind Energy A16 and the many stakeholders also brought many challenges and resulted in many unique collaborations and corresponding agreements. Both as a lawyer and as an advisor in a general sense, I was able to indulge in this unique project with great pleasure!
Annelies Wesselink
Jurist en projectmanager Windpark BCT

Sustainable Industrial Estate

The wind park is part of a sustainable industrial estate for the tree cultivation business. Not only is a wind farm part of this industrial estate, but other sustainable solutions such as solar panels on roofs and a water-rich design with a balance in groundwater consumption and groundwater use, irrigation, infiltration and anti-drought measures, water purification and separate systems, are also being realized here. Construction of this industrial estate is in full swing and during construction, the civil and electrical works of the wind farm are directly realized. Follow this industrial estate and the development of the wind farm via the website: BusinessCentre Treeport.

Floating solar panels through cable pooling

Since July 2024, the sustainable industrial estate has not only two wind turbines but also a floating solar park with 1,100 solar panels. Instead of creating a completely new connection for this solar park, it can use the existing infrastructure of the wind turbines. This is called cable pooling: a kind of carpooling underground by using the same cable. The turbines have a fixed transport capacity but don’t always use the full capacity, leaving room for an additional cable that connects the solar panels to the existing purchasing station (the power house). Read more about cable pooling at BCT in an interview with GreenTruster Christian Holdert.