Wind Farm BCT

Wind park BCT is part of business park Business Centre Treeport along the A16 on the border of the Netherlands and Belgium. This wind park consists of two Nordex wind turbines.

Silent

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

De ontwikkeling en financiering van het windpark van BCT was voor mij anders dan welk project dan ook. In eerste instantie omdat ik naast juridisch adviseur ook de rol van projectmanager vervulde. Leerzaam en een hele mooie inkijk in de keuken wat er allemaal komt kijken bij de ontwikkeling en financiering van een windpark, ook op niet-juridisch gebied. Daarnaast was het erg interessant dat onze opdrachtgever hoofdzakelijk bezig is met het ontwikkelen en realiseren van een distributiecentrum, waardoor niet de planning van ons windpark leidend is maar die van het distributiecentrum – een spannend speelveld. Tot slot, de dynamiek van de Windenergie A16 en de vele stakeholders brachten ook vele uitdagingen met zich mee én resulteerde in vele unieke samenwerkingen en bijbehorende overeenkomsten.Zowel als jurist als adviseur in algemene zin heb ik me met veel plezier volop kunnen uitleven op dit unieke project!
Annelies Wesselink
Jurist en projectmanager Windpark BCT

Sustainable business park

The wind park is part of a sustainable business park for the tree growing business. Not only a wind farm is part of this business park, but other sustainable solutions such as solar panels on the roofs and a wetland layout with a balance in groundwater consumption and groundwater use, irrigation, infiltration and anti-desiccation, water purification and segregated systems, are being realized here. The construction of this business park is in full swing, and when it is built, the civil and electrical works of the wind farm will be realized directly. Follow this business park and the development of the wind farm through the web site: BusinessCentre Treeport.

Floating solar panels through cable pooling

Since July 2024, in addition to two wind turbines, the sustainable business park also has a floating solar park of 1,100 solar panels. Instead of building an entirely new connection for this solar park, it can use the existing infrasctructure of the wind turbines. This is called cable pooling: a kind of carpooling underground by using the same cable. The turbines have a fixed transmission capacity but do not always use the full capacity, leaving room for an additional cable connecting 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.