Ventolines / Windpark Westermeerwind

Westermeerwind wind farm is a wind farm for and through the polder and since June 2016 has been supplying a quantity of sustainable electricity that is comparable to the electricity consumption of 160,000 households.

Westermeerwind has been constructed in the IJsselmeer along the dykes or the Noordoostpolder. It is the largest near-shore wind farm in the Netherlands to date and consists of 48 wind turbines or 3 MW – divided over two rows along the Westermeerdijk and one along the Noordermeerdijk – and a transformer station on land. The wind farm generates wind energy for i.e. 160,000 households.

Westermeerwind is part of the Noordoostpolder Wind Farm with 86 wind turbines in the water and on land, along the dykes of the IJsselmeer.