Hollandse Kust West Site VIII
Located south of Ecowende (Site VI) and OranjeWind (Site VII) in the Hollandse Kust (west) zone, approximately 50 km off the Dutch west coast.
Status
Early Developmentlifecycle stage
ProspectiveHafrok completion outlook
Ownership
—
Location
NetherlandsNorth Sea
Technology
Capacity
700 MW ◇
Turbines
—
Foundation
—
Site & conditions
Site rights
State-designated State designation · Rijksoverheid (Ministers of I&M and EZ), Rijksstructuurvisie Windenergie op Zee · 2014-09 ◆
Water depth
28–31 m ≈
Distance from shore
50 km ◇
Wind speed
9.9 m/s @ 150 m ≈
Revenue & grid
Offtake
Other ◇
Grid
No agreement ◇
Connection
TenneT 700 MW platform planned for Hollandse Kust West Site … ◇
Schedule
FID
Not taken
COD · announced
2032 ◇
COD · Hafrok
2034 expected
Delivery outlook modelled by Hafrok · calibrated on delivered projects
2034
expected year of commercial operation
The developer says 2032; Hafrok expects 2034 — 2 years later.
Chance of delivery
≈61%
estimated chance this project reaches commercial operation
Early Development projects complete ≈61% of the time on Hafrok's record. A secured offtake contract lifts this one slightly; its size and technical complexity pull a little the other way.
COD outlook
If it completes, when — Hafrok’s probability by year (teal) · the developer’s COD guidance, by date stated (ink)
| Year | Probability |
|---|---|
| 2033 | 14.2% |
| 2034 (expected) | 30.5% |
| 2035 | 24.0% |
| 2036 | 14.4% |
| 2037 | 8.0% |
| 2038 | 4.4% |
| 2039 | 2.4% |
| 2040 | 1.3% |
| 2041 | 0.8% |
| Stated | Announced COD |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 2032 (held since 2026-04-15, 2 statements) |
How Hafrok got this date
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No dated milestone yet
Nothing is consented or financed with a date, so the estimate starts from today (
2026), adds the time similar projects (in established offshore-wind markets) took from consent to operation, plus an allowance for obtaining consent.2
Earliest credible date
Typical consent-to-operation time plus allowances means commercial operation before
2034 is not credible.3
Still needs an offtake award: NL-IJMUIDEN-VER-GAMMA-A
The project has no offtake contract yet. The next visible auction is around
2026 Q4; winners typically reach final investment decision about 2 years after an award (2028 Q4), then build time on top gives 2032 Q1. The milestone timing is already later than that, so it stands.4
Result
Expected commercial operation
2034, likely range 2034–2042 (the middle half of outcomes for similar projects). With no milestone to build from, the earliest credible date is the estimate, with a deliberately wide range.5
Year-by-year chart
The bars spread that estimate across years using how similar projects actually slipped against their dates — more often late than early, which is why the bars lean right.
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Chance of delivery — separate from timing
Start from the share of Early Development projects that went on to complete — ≈61%, measured on Hafrok's record of delivered and abandoned projects, with an allowance held back where that record cannot yet speak (projects still unresolved, changed market conditions). About three in four early-stage projects with a final outcome went on to operate — a record from an easier era. Most of today's early pipeline is still unresolved, so the estimate discounts it. Then adjust for this project's own evidence — offtake, market, size, technical complexity — to ≈61%, which rates it
Prospective on Hafrok's four-step delivery scale (Delivering · Expected · Prospective · Fragile).Project timeline verified milestones only — each date carries its provenance mark
Dashed tick marks today (13 Oct 2026). The ▲ below the spine is the developer-announced COD.
Announced COD: held (announced 2032, unchanged) · the full guidance history is in the delivery chart above
Revenue & offtake route to market — open
No offtake secured — route to market open
Tender not yet opened. Kavelbesluit (site permit) procedure not yet started as of 2026. Netherlands planning offshore CfD-style contracts for future tenders. ◇
The routes describe what exists in this market — not a prediction of which the project will take. Timing math for the auction gate lives in the delivery outlook above.
Next visible round · from the auction calendar
Doordewind I / II + further roadmap (HKW VIII, North of Wadden I) ◇
indicative
Installation how the build is going · from sourced statements and Hafrok’s registers
Installation not started
Installation · on record
StageEarly Development
Offshore constructionnot started
Expected start of operation2032
Construction ports
PortPort of IJmuiden ◇·quay 580 m · draft 12.5 m
Sources & verification
Rests on 8 sources (2 primary) · ◆ 5 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.
Regulator2
[1]
RVO (Netherlands Enterprise Agency)2026◆ RVO new offshore wind farms roadmap
“Hollandse Kust (west) WFS VIII — About 0.7 GW — Permit procedure: to be determined — Expected commissioning: to be determined.”
supportsConsentTotal capacityMechanismDetailOfftake history
[7]
Ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat / RVO2021-11◆ Vastgestelde notitie reikwijdte en detai…
“Middels de Rijksstructuurvisie Windenergie op Zee, zijn op 26 september 2014 aanvullend de windenergiegebieden Hollandse Kust en Ten noorden van de Waddeneilanden aangewezen. [...] Windenergiegebied H…”
supportsSite rights
Auction pipeline1
[8]
RVO2026◆ rvo-roadmap-2026
RVO roadmap — Doordewind I/II, HKW VIII, North of the Wadden Islands I planned; Lagelander removed ("no wind farms will be developed").
supportsDoordewind I / II + further roadmap (HKW VIII, North of Wadden I)
Trade press5
[2]
[3]
[4]
4C Offshore2026-07-02
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsCoordinates
[5]
[6]