The first wind turbine for “EnBW He Dreiht”, Germany’s largest offshore wind farm currently under construction, has been in place since April 24, according to EnBW.
He Dreiht is being built roughly 85 kilometers northwest of Borkum and about 110 kilometers west of Helgoland.
More than 500 employees will work on this large construction site in the middle of the sea at peak times.
Over 60 ships are involved in the construction of the wind farm. EnBW’s offshore office in Hamburg is coordinating the major project.
The 64 foundations were installed last year. The components were loaded onto the installation vessel Wind Orca in the port of Esbjerg in Denmark, EnBW says.
After a twelve-hour journey to the construction site at sea, the ship positioned the first turbine on the foundations already installed in the seabed.
Work on the internal wind farm cabling is running alongside the installation of the wind turbines.
A partner consortium made up of Allianz Capital Partners, AIP and Norges Bank Investment Management owns 49.9% of the shares in He Dreiht.
Michael Class, head of Generation Portfolio Development at EnBW, explains that “EnBW has been planning, building and operating offshore wind farms in Germany and Europe for over 15 years. EnBW He Dreiht is our largest offshore project to date and is being built without state funding.”
“It will play a key role in helping us to achieve our goal of significantly increasing installed output from renewable energies from the current figure of 6.6 GW to over 10 GW by 2030,” Michael Class adds.
In the Baltic Sea, EnBW operates the EnBW Baltic 1 and Baltic 2 offshore wind farms. Besides He Dreiht, EnBW’s existing offshore wind farms Hohe See and Albatros are located in the North Sea.
In addition, EnBW and bp are developing three wind farms in the UK – Mona, Morgan and Morven – with a total capacity of 5.9 GW.
