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Swedish energy company Vattenfall has announced that it will begin construction on its largest onshore wind farm so far later this year.

 

The 122MW Zuidlob project will consist of 36 turbines and will be located in the Netherlands. It is expected to cost SEK1.4bn ($204m) to build and it is scheduled to be operational by 2013. Vattenfall said it will be prioritising wind energy and has plans to invest SEK26bn ($379m) from this year through to 2015.

Anders Dahl, head of renewables at Vattenfall, said, 'This is a great step for Vattenfall and the development of sustainable energy in the Netherlands. We are now delivering on our strategy to increase investments in renewable energy. With a capacity of around 122MW, it will be Vattenfall´s largest onshore wind farm and this means nearly a doubling of wind power capacity in the Netherlands.'

In August, Vattenfall announced the first electricity was delivered to the UK from the 150MW Ormonde offshore wind farm located in the Irish Sea. In May, the company released figures that revealed a drop in net sales of more than a quarter for the first half of fiscal 2011. It attributed the fall to the sale of its German transmission business and the report also showed Vattenfall's wind generating capacity had doubled to 1TWh.