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Shell Dutch Wind Farm Will get New Lease on Life with Google Deal

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Last updated: 2025/05/08 at 1:08 PM
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Google LLC and Shell PLC have partnered to increase the lifetime of the NordzeeWind undertaking, the primary wind farm on the Dutch facet of the North Sea in accordance with Shell, by no less than 4 years.

“We bought 100% of the wind farm’s 108-megawatt capability, which enabled Shell to pursue allow extensions and spend money on essential upgrades, stopping the untimely lack of helpful clear power”, the Web big stated in an internet assertion. “This initiative helps to maintain present carbon-free power sources on the grid that will in any other case have retired”.

Put on-line 2007, the undertaking, off the coast of the village of Egmond aan Zee, produces sufficient energy to cowl 0.3 % of Dutch demand, in accordance with Shell. It consists of 36 generators.

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It has been absolutely owned by Shell for the reason that British power big acquired the stake of 50-50 co-venturer Vattenfall AB in 2021.

Google stated the deal represents “the primary time a company PPA [power purchase agreement] has prolonged the lifespan of an offshore wind farm”.

“So far, we’ve supported over 1 gigawatt of fresh power technology capability within the Netherlands by way of PPAs”, it added.

Google stated final yr its Dutch PPAs as of the time would assist its knowledge facilities and workplaces within the western European nation attain over 90 % of carbon-free electrical energy that yr.

These PPAs embody agreements with Shell and Eneco “to help 478 megawatts of carbon-free power capability with two new-to-the-grid offshore wind farms: HKN V and HKW VI”. Of the 2 joint offshore wind ventures, HKN V has been onstream since December 2023 whereas HKW VI is anticipated to begin manufacturing 2026.

“These agreements [HKN V and HKW VI] help the event of those subsidy-free offshore wind farms, that are anticipated to contribute to about six % of the nation’s annual electrical energy consumption and can foster know-how innovation and ecological growth”, Google stated in a press launch February 1, 2024.

On the time, it additionally introduced an settlement to help a 47-MW onshore wind undertaking of Italy’s ERG. “Our present projections point out that, as soon as operational, this settlement will assist our workplaces in Italy, in addition to our Milan and Turin cloud areas, to succeed in greater than 90 % carbon-free power on an hourly native foundation in 2025”, Google stated.

Google stated then it was additionally following up its first PPA in Poland, signed 2023, with one other settlement with GoldenPeaks Capital for 106 MW of photo voltaic technology. “This may add clear power to the grid that our projections point out will assist our workplaces and cloud area in Poland obtain greater than 90 % carbon-free power in 2025”, it stated.

Moreover it agreed to assist convey 84 MW to the Belgian grid by way of agreements with Aspiravi and Luminus.

Google goals to run its knowledge facilities and workplace campuses fully on carbon-free energy as a part of its broader purpose to attain net-zero emissions throughout all its operations and worth chain by 2030. 

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