Being touted as one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, Gemini windpark opened this week with 150 turbines that will provide energy for 1.5 million people over the next 15 years. Located off the northern coast of The Netherlands, the windpark will have a generating capacity of 600 megawatts, supplying 785,000 Dutch homes with renewable energy.

"We are now officially in the operational stage," the company's managing director Matthias Haag told AFP, celebrating the completion of a project first conceived in 2010.

The $3 billion project is a collaboration between the Canadian independent renewable energy company Northland Power, wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Wind Power, Dutch maritime contractor Van Oord and waste processing company HVC.

In addition to contributing 13 percent of the country’s renewable energy and 25 percent of its wind power, the wind farm is also expected to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 1.25 million tons, the company says.

While the Netherlands remains dependent on fossil fuels, the Dutch government has committed to work toward becoming carbon neutral by 2050 with steady increases in wind and solar power.