C-Power
Thornton Bank, ~30 km off the West Flanders coast.
Status
Operationallifecycle stage
Ownership
Location
BelgiumNorth Sea
Technology
Capacity
325 MW ◆
Turbines
54 × 6.15 MW ◆
Model
Senvion 6 2m126 ◆
Foundation
GBS+Jacket ◆
Site & conditions
Site rights
Seabed rights held ∴
Origination
Belgian offshore wind zone — domain concessions (Thornton Bank–Bligh Bank) · 2003 ·
Water depth
12–27 m ◆
Distance from shore
30 km ◆
Wind speed
9.3 m/s @ 100 m ≈
Revenue & grid
Offtake
Certificate ◆
Grid
Secured · Sep 2013 ◆
Connection
Sas Slijkens high-voltage substation, Bredene (150 kV, Elia) ◆
Schedule
FID
2007 ◆
COD
Sep 2013 ◆
Project timeline & ownership verified milestones on the spine · ownership from Hafrok's transactions record
4 dated milestones on the spine, each with its source · 7 recorded ownership deals from Hafrok's transactions record · the developer's announced-COD history
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Revenue & offtake contract terms, price levels and the route to market
the contract terms on record · price over time in money of the day · the routes to market and the next visible round
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Installation how the build is going · from sourced statements and Hafrok's registers
construction status and turbines standing · vessel and port contracts · the grid connection and whether it is ready in time
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Sources & verification
Rests on 14 sources (9 primary) · ◆ 6 documents held
◆Verified≈Modelled◇Sourced∴Inferred⌁Convention○Unverified∅No source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
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SOCOFE2024-02-15
“la part détenue par C-POWER HOLDCO en C-POWER est passée de 53,9% à 63,3% [...] l'Allemand RWE (pour 26,7%) [...] du Français EDF (10%) [...] DEME CONCESSION WIND et NUHMA en ont profité pour transfér…”
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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (MUMM)2026-10-12◆ MUMM permit register: milestones for the…
"C-POWER" ... "Environmental permit" ... "Granted" ... "Minister responsible for the marine environment" ... "2004-04-14T02:00:00+02:00"
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Auction results1
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RBINS / MUMM (Brabant, Degraer & Rumes, 2011 — Offshore wind farms in the Belgian part of the North Sea, ch. 2)2011◆ rbins-mumm-2011-belgian-owf-ch2
Table 1, "Overview of the dates when the projects were granted a domain concession and an environmental permit": C-Power 27/06/03 · Belwind 5/6/2007 · Eldepasco 15/5/2006 · Norther 5/10/2009 · Rentel …
supportsConcession · Belgian offshore wind zone — domain concessions (Thornton Bank–Bligh Bank)
Trade press8
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CMS Law2024-01-01◆ CMS Expert Guide - Offshore wind in Belg…
“Offshore wind farms with financial close prior to 1 May 2014 can sell their Green Certificates to the TSO at a fixed minimum price of EUR 107 per MWh for the electricity that is generated from the fir…”
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Power Technology
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsCommercial operation
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offshoreWIND.biz2013-09-18
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
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