Shell-led consortium wins 700 MW Dutch offshore wind contract

A consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell beat 26 other bids for a contract to build 700 megawatts of offshore wind capacity, the Dutch government said as it announced plans for a further seven wind farms to be build in the next decade. Contractors Eneco, Van Oord and Mitsubishi/DGE are Shell's partners in the consortium to build in the Borssele III and IV wind areas, which promised the Netherlands' lowest-ever strike price of 54.50 euro cents per megawatt hours. "In the future, the North Sea could