Partners Group, a global private markets investment manager, has agreed to acquire a 45% stake in Borssele III/IV (Borssele), a 731.5MW construction-ready offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, on behalf of its clients.
The investment makes Partners Group the largest shareholder in a consortium of investors that also includes Shell, Diamond Generating Europe, Eneco Group and Van Oord. Borssele will comprise 77 9.5MW Vestas turbines placed across two sites in the Borssele Wind Farm Zone, which is 22 kilometres off the coast of the province of Zeeland, at the southern border of the Netherlands' Exclusive Economic Zone. Grid connectivity has already been secured for the project, which is due to begin construction in H2 2018.
