DONG Energy installs first wind turbine at Borkum Riffgrund 1
The first of 78 wind turbines has been successfully installed at DONG Energy’s first German offshore wind farm, Borkum Riffgrund 1, the company said in its press release.
The wind farm, which has a total capacity of 312MW, is a joint venture between the market leader in offshore wind, DONG Energy, with an ownership interest of 50% and Kirkbi Invest A/S and William Demant Invest A/S with a joint ownership interest of 50%.
Trine Borum Bojsen, Managing Director for DONG Energy in Germany, said: "The installation of our very first wind turbine in German waters is a very visual prove of DONG Energy’s ambitions in Germany. Borkum Riffgrund 1 is not only our first wind farm in Germany; it's also the first in a series of wind farms."
Bojsen continued: "We'll continue in 2015 with the installation of the offshore wind farms Gode Wind 1 and 2. With these three wind farms, we'll have installed approximately 900MW in the German North Sea, thereby providing electricity to nearly one million German households."
Borkum Riffgrund 1 is located approximately 37 kilometres north of the island Borkum in the German part of the North Sea.
Borkum Riffgrund 1 is expected to be commissioned in the first half of 2015. The wind farm has a capacity of 312MW, producing enough CO2–free electricity to power approximately 320,000 German households. The offshore construction works started in August 2013.
So far, DONG Energy has built a total capacity of 2.100MW offshore wind energy. When all DONG Energy's projects currently under construction are completed, DONG Energy will have installed a total of 3.600MW, making it well past halfway to realising the company’s strategic target of installing 6.500MW by 2020.