UTILITIES | Thu Sep 8, 2016 10:15am EDT
Royal Dutch Shell, which lost a bid to build a Dutch North Sea wind park in July, is interested in entering a second tender process opening next week, an official said on Thursday.
Marjan van Loon, Shell’s top executive in the Netherlands, told parliament on Thursday “the potential for wind energy in the Netherlands is really very attractive.”
A Shell spokesman could not confirm that Shell would bid on the 680 megawatt (MW) Borssele III and IV wind farms, but said it was studying the option.
The Dutch government awarded the first Borssele I and II 700 MW wind farms to Denmark’s Dong Energy, which bid at a record low price.
The tender for two additional offshore sites, Borssele III and IV, will have combined 680 MW output. It opens next Friday and runs through Sept. 29.
An additional three wind farm projects, Zone Hollandse Kust, with a combined 2,100 MW, are due to be tendered by 2019.
DONG’s winning bid was to produce electricity at 7.27 euro cents per kilowatt hour, excluding costs to connect to grid operator TenneT.
Van Loon said Shell supported a faster shift to renewables and less polluting fossil fuels, but that in the meantime gas remained the best option to meet Dutch energy demand.
“Shell sees opportunities for the Dutch to accelerate the energy shift,” she said. While DONG’s bid showed the cost to produce offshore wind energy had fallen sharply, it “needs to come down more if it is really going to be competitive.”
The entire Borssele project, with 1,370 MW capacity, is one of the biggest European offshore wind tenders in recent years.
(Reporting by Anthony Deutsch; Editing by Mark Potter)
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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