Dutch Moving Wind Turbines Offshore

For centuries, Dutch windmills have pumped water out of the low-lying country, and old-fashioned wooden mills are as closely linked with the Netherlands’ international image as its dikes and bikes.

But in the face of a large and growing lobby against the windmill’s modern electricity-generating counterpart _ the wind turbine _ the country has started moving them offshore and out of sight.
The Egmond aan Zee wind farm, the first major offshore Dutch project, is nearing completion 8 miles from Haarlem and is scheduled to go on line this fall. It has 36 turbines, each with arms reaching higher than a football field, capable of producing a combined 108 megawatts an hour _ enough to power roughly 100,000 households.

Washington Post