Germany´s biggest wind farm connected to the grid

Germany’s biggest wind farm has been fully connected to the grid since January 9, 2020. The Hohe See offshore wind farm has already been in operation since October 2019. Now its smaller neighbor Albatros is also producing electricity.

The full complement of 87 Siemens wind turbines has a total output of 609 megawatts. They can generate as much energy as a modern gas-fired power plant that is enough to supply all households in Munich with green energy. EnBW finished the construction of the two wind farms as planned in September 2019.

The construction on both of the projects was completed in September 2019. 

497 MW Hohe See farm is located in the North Sea, approximately 100 kilometres west of the German island of Heligoland. The farm produces about 2,000 gigawatt hours of electricity a year. The facility comprises 71 Siemens SWT-7.0-154 turbine, rated at 7 MW.

112 MW Albatros farm features 16 Siemens SWT-7.0-154 turbines.

Canadian energy infrastructure company Enbridge Inc. has a 49.9 percent stake in both wind farms, with EnBW owning the remaining 50.1 percent.