SCHIEDAM, March 19 (Reuters) - Swedish utility Vattenfallhas won the right to build a 700 megawatt (MW)subsidy-free wind farm in the Dutch part of the North Sea, theDutch Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Monday.
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The wind farm in the Dutch North Sea will provide enoughsustainable electricity for one million households, the ministrysaid in a statement.
"Thanks to drastically lower costs, offshore wind farms arenow being constructed without subsidy," Minister of EconomicAffairs Eric Wiebes said. "Innovation and competition are makingsustainable energy cheaper and cheaper, and much faster thanexpected, too.”
The Hollandse Kust tender was the third of five tendersbeing held by the Dutch in a push to create 3,500 MW of offshorewind power by 2023.
The first two projects, for 700 MW each, were awarded in2016 to Danish energy company Orsted and aconsortium including Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shelland Dutch energy provider Eneco.(Reporting by Bart Meijer and Toby SterlingEditing by Alexander Smith and David Goodman)
