After 25 years Irene Vorrink wind farm, one of Vattenfall's oldest wind farms in the Netherlands, will be dismantled and recycled. Instead, new wind turbines will be built into deeper into waters.
The 28 wind turbines with a total capacity of 16.8 MW of the Irene Vorrink wind farm, named after a Dutch politician who died in 1996, have so far been located in the IJsselmeerdijk north of Lelystad, just off the dike in the water. Nowadays, however, the construction of larger, modern turbines so close to the dike is no longer permitted ...