Belgian renewable energy developer Storm plans to build an 18 MW wind farm project for the steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal SA in the Port of Ghent.
ArcelorMittal Belgium buys all electricity from the wind farm for twenty years at a fixed price. The steel company ensures itself of a guaranteed supply of low-priced and renewable energy. Storm can realize the wind farm subsidy-free, without having to rely on the system of green certificates.
The project consists of three 6-MW turbines with a rotor diameter of 162 meters and a tip height of up to 230 meters. The subsidy-free Storm wind farm will supply more than 45,000 MWh of electricity annually to ArcelorMittal Belgium’s production site in Ghent. This corresponds to the equivalent annual electricity consumption of 13,000 families. The wind farm avoids emitting 11,225 tonnes of CO2 every year. It is scheduled to be operational in spring 2022.
