A WIND FARM FOR AND BY THE POLDER

initiators from the polder

Pieter Meulendijks and Tjitte de Groot:

in Emmeloord (Noordoostpolder)

Annual kite festival

Visits of tourists

from Norway and Africa...

Owner Informatie center IIBeaufort

Westermeerwind Wind Farm is a wind farm for and by the polder, and will provide 160,000 households (the entire Flevopolder) with sustainable electricity in the spring of 2016.

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    Minister Kamp opens the Westermeerwind wind farm

    21-06-2016

    Emmeloord, 21 June 2016. Today the Westermeerwind wind farm was officially opened by Minister Kamp and the two initiators of the wind farm, Tjitte de Groot and Peter Meulendijks. The 48 Siemens wind turbines of the largest near-shore wind farm in the Netherlands generate an amount of energy comparable to the consumption of 160,000 households.     Westermeerwind wind farm officially opened by Minister Kamp and the initiators of the wind farm, Tjitte de Groot and Peter Meulendijks. (@Westermeerwind) The installation of 48 wind turbines is completed in one year. Anne de Groot, Director of Westermeerwind: “Over 20 years ago, the […]

INITIATORS PIETER AND TJITTE

For over twenty years, farmers Tjitte de Groot and Pieter Meulendijks worked on their dream. In addition to agricultural entrepreneurs, they became wind entrepreneurs. Their activities started small: one turbine in their own farmyard. Read more »

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