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The C-Power windfarm is fully operational since 2013. It is the first far shore windfarm in the Belgian North Sea and today C-Power is one of the first wind farm owners that is fully responsible for all maintenance, the replacement of all parts, purchase, logistics and engineering of solutions for technical issues.
Compared to the environmental impact of traditional energy sources, the environmental impact of wind power is very positive. Wind power consumes no fuel, causes no air pollution and does not generate any toxic waste.
The C-Power team strives to maximize the lifetime value of its wind farm through continuous improvement, putting safety first and with respect for the environment.
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The project was executed by C-Power, which is owned by several shareholders including Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME), RWE, and EDF group-subsidiary EDF Energies Nouvelles and Marguerite, among others.
The wind farm, developed in three phases, generates about 1,050GWh of electricity annually enough to power 300,000 households, avoiding 415,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year.
C-Power secured a concession to develop an offshore wind farm in the Exclusive Economical Zone of the Belgian Continental Shelf in 2003. The wind farm was built in this concession on the Thornton sand bank, located around 30km off the coast of Belgium.
The project features a total of 54 turbines across an area of 19.84km².
The concession area is divided into two sub-areas- Sub area A (southwestern part) and Sub area B (northeastern part). Sub area A consists of 30 turbines, while Sub area B has 24 turbines.
The two sub-areas are separated by a channel defined around the Interconnector gas conduct and the Concerto South 1 telecommunication cable. Water depth in the region ranges from 12m to 27m.
Overall, the delineated zone will feature nine offshore projects with a combined capacity of 2,200MW.
The C-Power Thornton Bank offshore wind project was developed in three phases.
Thornton Bank commenced work with a pilot phase as it was the first offshore wind project to be developed in the Belgian North Sea.
The construction of the pilot phase, regarded as the first phase of the project, commenced in May 2007 and was completed in 2009.
This demonstration phase involved installing six wind turbines of 5MW capacity each, built on gravity-based foundations. They were interconnected by 33kV cables and then linked to the onshore high-voltage station through a 150kV export cable.
The construction of the second phase and third phases began in November 2010, with production commencing in 2012 and 2013, respectively.
A total of 30 wind turbines of 6.15MW capacity each were installed in the second phase, while the third phase involved the deployment of 18 wind turbines of the same capacity.
The final two phases also included the installation of associated 48 jacket foundations for the turbines, one Offshore Transformer Station (OTS), the laying of infield cables and a second 150kV export cable.
A 50.75km-long, 33kV cable network laid between the wind turbines collects the power generated by the wind turbines and transports it to the OTS.
The OTS then converts the collected energy from the wind turbines to a higher voltage of 150kV and then transports it to the land 40km away via two submarine export cables.
The export cables make landfall on the beach and are connected to two 150kV land cables, which are in turn connected to the Elia substation ''Sas Slijkens''.
The project has a connection power of 346.52MVA on the 150kV grid of the Belgian transmission system operator Elia.
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