{"id":10202,"date":"2011-10-19T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2011\/10\/19\/antwerp-team-up-for-wind-farm\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:57:25","slug":"antwerp-team-up-for-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe-greenport\/antwerp-team-up-for-wind-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp team up for wind farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antwerp Green Port will act as operational partner to develop the wind farm and construction of the turbines is set to start early in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>With a maximum potential of 55 turbines, the facility will be able to generate enough power for 100,000 households.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project will practically double the amount of wind power produced in Flanders. On the left bank alone we will generate enough energy for 100,000 to 120,000 households\u201d, said Marc Van Peel, chairman of Antwerp Port Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Paul De fauw of Antwerp Green Port said: \u201cThe partners in the consortium have the know-how and experience to successfully develop the largest wind farm in Belgium. This will enable us to draw up a wind turbine plan for the whole of the Antwerp port area, and also make a start on the right bank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plan for the wind farm forms part of the action plan by the port authority to develop renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antwerp Port Authority and the Left Bank Corporation have teamed up with consortium Antwerp Green Port to build a large wind farm on the left bank of the river Scheldt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10204,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions\/10204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10202"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}