RWE has started the commercial operation of its 342 MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm located about 35 km north of the island of Heligoland in the North Sea, Germany.
Since the end of 2022, all of the 38 wind turbines of the project have been feeding green electricity into the grid. After all required tests were successfully completed, the wind farm is now commencing regular operation. The approval procedure for the wind farm started in the spring of 2019 and construction was greenlighted by the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie) at the end of 2020.
The project represents around EUR800 million (US$862.12 million) of investment. The project features 38 pieces of the SG 8.0-167 DD Flex turbines with a rotor diameter of 167 m using the 81 m long Siemens Gamesa B81 Integral Blades. It supplies enough electricity to power the equivalent of more than 400,000 average German households.
Amprion GmbH has initiated the planning approval process for the BorWin4 offshore link, which aims to connect North Sea wind farms to the German onshore transmission grid, with a capacity of 900 MW.
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Parkwind has announced that its 257 MW Arcadis Ost 1 wind farm in in the German Baltic Sea has begun generating electricity.
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RWE has signed 12 power purchase agreements (PPAs) involving its 295 MW Nordsee Ost and 302 MW Amrumbank West offshore wind projects in Germany.
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Nordex SE has signed turbine supply orders for a total capacity of 245 MW for several wind projects in Canada and Germany.
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Amprion Offshore GmbH has awarded Prysmian Group two contracts to supply and install cables for the 1.8 GW DolWin4 & BorWin4 offshore transmission projects in the North Sea of Germany.
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