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On 6 December 2023, the Dutch Minister for Climate and Energy signed Kavelbesluit kavel Beta windenergiegebied IJmuiden Ver under the Offshore Wind Energy Act (Wet windenergie op zee), formally designating kavel Beta in the IJmuiden Ver wind energy zone (approximately 60 km off the Dutch North Sea coast) as the seabed location for an offshore wind farm with a planned installed capacity of approximately 2 GW. The decision was published in the Staatscourant on 28 December 2023 as Stcrt. 2023, 35270. The Kavelbesluit is the Dutch legal instrument under the Wet windenergie op zee (effective 1 July 2015) that formally designates a specific seabed plot for offshore wind use, establishing the basis for the subsequent tender. The Beta tender was awarded in April 2024 to the Zeevonk consortium (Vattenfall, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners) under a qualitative criteria scheme combining offshore wind with electrolyser-based green hydrogen production. A Wijzigingsbesluit signed 6 August 2025 (Stcrt. 2025, 28710) subsequently amended the kavelbesluit to allow a two-phase build. [Mirrored from IJmuiden Ver Beta-1 sibling project (69f4b9e28673ef38ffe4fb7b) — shared pre-split history. This event materially applies to both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Beta permit under the Wijzigingsbesluit of 6 Aug 2025.]