The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) has awarded Blix Consultancy and its partners a framework agreement to support RVO.nl with collecting site data for future offshore wind farm zones in the Netherlands. This contract concerns wind farm zone Hollandse Kust (noord) and future zones still to be appointed by the new government.
The focus of the current agreement will be to provide expertise site investigations, including obstructions and mapping, soil, wind and water, and possible interference with other activities. The aim of the site investigations is to provide a package of site data for companies preparing a bid, to lower the risks for developers and thereby reduce the bid price in the tender phase. The partners include Energy Solutions, Hessels & van Rooij Engineering B.V., KCI, MetOcean Consult, MARIN, NLR, Periplus, Pondera, Reynolds International, RPS, the Missing Link and Wind Support.