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You don’t have to be particularly bold to claim that the offshore wind energy industry will come through the international banking and financial crisis relatively unscathed. European projects have reached a volume which is expanding under its own momentum and this will not be stopped by a temporary lull. Admittedly, projects that depend on banks for their financing have en-countered difficulties. This has changed the face of the industry and led to the overwhelm-ing majority of upcoming wind farms being transferred into the ownership of large energy sup-pliers over the past year. Yet this is of little significance to wind turbine manufacturers and their suppliers – from gearbox engineering to cabling. It actually gives them a secure basis for long-term planning, and new contracts for a large number of turbines have been concluded. On the whole, underlying conditions have indeed been favourable for offshore wind energy – 2009 is the year of the major climate change conference in Copenhagen. Given the increasingly clear warnings coming from climatologists, Europeans are more determined than ever to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. They know they can’t reach their targets without exploiting offshore wind power. If we look at the political targets for expanding offshore wind power, we see that the political will still far exceeds manufacturers’ planned capacities. Experts confirm that feed-in tariffs in Europe and other currently beneficial conditions can generate returns of between 9 and 14 per-cent on invested capital. Some 160 offshore wind farms have been built or are being planned around the European continent, and this figure alone shows that investors are moving with the times. This is why planners, manufacturers and operators are in an ongoing process of making new contracts, starting construction, and commissioning wind farms. This holds true for enterprises in Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven, Emden, Rostock and other port cities as well. We are pleased and proud that a large share of this development is in the hands of researchers and businesses which are members of the Wind Energy Agency Bremerhaven/Bremen (WAB) network.

Jan Rispens, Managing Director WAB

Foreword by Jan Rispens

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ConceptJan Rispens, Steffen Schleicher (WAB)Marcus Franken (author) Jens Meier (photographer)Viola Haye, Mike Müller (bigbenreklamebureau gmbh)Text: Marcus FrankenEditor: Steffen Schleicher

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The contents of this magazine have been researched from various sources on behalf of the Windenergie Agentur Bremer-haven/Bremen e.V. However, the publisher accepts no responsibility for the facts and figures published.

16 Staying on course in rough seasIn the midst of the financial crisis, the offshore wind industry is working towards providing a significant share of Europe’s power. The industry has seen supply contracts being signed, mass production plants being opened and expand-ed, and ships for building wind farms at sea being launched. The first large-scale turbines in the five-MW class have begun operating offshore.We go into the details of this giant leap.

23 Interview Europe remains strong, China is gaining John Westwood about the consequences of the financial crisis

28 Interview “At least a billion euros per year for renewable energy” Fritz Vahrenholt announced ambitious plans for the offshore business

30 Interview “This location has charm” Jens Assheuer explains the offshore plans of WindMW in Bremerhaven

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eurOpe Is backIng wInd pOwer. Some 160 offshore farms are

currently in operation, under construction or being planned around

the coastline of the european continent. They will help eU countries

achieve common climate goals, conserve resources, and reduce

europe’s vulnerability to shortages and fluctuations in commodities

markets. The Thornton Bank wind farm in Belgium is a milestone

in offshore wind energy generation. This was the first commercial

project to go into operation using new five-MW class turbines.

By 2012, three wind farms with more than 846 MW capacity are

set to be built off Belgium’s short 65-kilometre coastline alone.

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nature cOnservatIOn and OffshOre wInd. experts on the environment have been involved

in wind farm planning for many years. Migratory birds and porpoises are of particular concern.

The only marine mammals native to the north and Baltic Seas can face harm by noise levels, when

foundation piles are driven into the seabed. For this reason, construction work is scheduled during

periods when few porpoises are in the area, and attempts are made to reduce noise by using new

technologies or installing acoustic barriers around construction sites at sea. after construction is

finished the porpoises are returning to the wind farm area. and sometimes operators have to make

big concessions; in 2005, planning for the Pommersche Bucht and adlergrund wind farms in the

Baltic Sea was stopped to protect marine reserves for various species of ducks on the open sea.


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Manufacturers’ art: The offshore wind farms in the north and Baltic Sea are being built under

cooperation of turbine manufacturers, steel companies and shipping companies from all over Central

europe. The multinational industry makes use of conferences such as WaB’s WinDFORCe – DiReCTiOn

OFFShORe to assess current production results of the manufacturers. The spinner of the 5 Megawatt

systems that can be seen on the Repower factory premises are reminiscent of modern art.


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energy supplIers. There is a colourful array of planners and investors in

the offshore wind energy industry. Many engineering firms with experience in

onshore wind power have designed and planned offshore wind farms, guiding

these projects through the approval process. Some firms build farms themselves,

while others team up with strong financial partners to see through a project‘s

implementation. But the cost of a project, which can exceed one billion euros, is

often too high for small and medium-sized firms, many of which end up selling

their plans to major european energy suppliers, including german companies like

RWe, e.On, enBW from South-germany or large municipal utilities. They have been

joined by independent power companies, investment companies like Blackstone,

and the Masdar initiative of abu Dhabi. all in all, this makes for a sound mixture

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ready tO saIl. at the german north Sea and Baltic Sea coasts,

the heavy industry has brought itself into position for an on-

time hand over of the foundations, towers and wind turbines of

the coming offshore wind farms to their constructors. That the

renewable energy industry is entering a new dimension can be

understood at mere sight of the individual components: “Tripiles”

for the wind farm Bard Offshore 1 at Cuxhaven Steel Construction.

if every thing goes according to plan, they will already be sup-

porting the first of 80 wind turbines in 2010 to start feeding their

electricity into the german high-voltage grid.

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Offshore Wind Energy 2009

Staying on course in rough seasin the midst of the financial crisis, the offshore wind industry is working towards providing a

significant share of europe’s power. the industry has seen supply contracts being signed, mass

production plants being opened and expanded, and ships for building wind farms at sea being

launched. the first large-scale turbines in the five-Megawatt class have begun operating offshore.

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At daybreak on 18 September 2008, Alexander Kuhn climbs aboard a small boat. As it sails out of Zeebrugge harbour, the sun rises over the southern North Sea and Kuhn’s destination appears over the bow – six towers at the Thornton Bank wind farm, looking small in the distance some 30 kilometres from the Belgian coast. Kuhn is among those responsible for constructing these massive REpower wind turbines. For days he has been sailing back and forth between the harbour and the construction site at sea, keeping a watchful eye on the weather. A high-pressure system called Eric has settled over Europe; it’s a warm September and there are no signs of autumn storms. But the late summer is windier than meteorologists anticipated. Eric is changeable, the weather is unsettled, and gusty winds keep interrupting the work of Kuhn’s men. Construction on Thornton Bank started two months ear-lier. The day before, a crane finally positioned the last of the 77-metre towers and the nacelle on the 3,000-ton reinforced concrete founda-tion. The plan for today is to install the hub with the rotor blades. It’s a tricky job – the giant star, with a diameter of 126 metres, has to be raised past the work platform, passing within five metres of its sup-ports. As the rotor is raised, the sensitive tips of its blades will come close to the steel struts of the framework supporting the crane. Once the hub is finally ready to be mounted to the gearbox flange at a height of 94 metres, the star has to be kept motionless for several minutes.

“Litmus test for the wind industry”

Although Kuhn has already seen the work to completion on five turbines, he feels responsibility weighing heavily on him now. The effort of hundreds of people and dozens of firms comes together in this final moment. “Building Thornton Bank is a litmus test,” says Norbert Giese, head of REpower’s offshore division. The entire wind industry is waiting to see whether the six wind turbines off the Belgian coast will be completed on schedule. It’s a race against time. Kuhn reckons it will take at least four to five hours to lift the hub and rotor blades and secure them to the nacelle. The meteorological serv-ice has indicated that stronger winds will not occur until evening, and installers are making good progress for the time being. They are also paying constant attention to wind reports coming from the top of the crane every fifteen minutes. They can keep working as long as wind speed is less than ten metres per second. But in the afternoon the wind picks up and the timeframe for installation steadily shrinks. When the wind gusts at twelve metres per second, the operation is called off. Night falls and Kuhn heads back to shore with his mission unfinished. The bad weather does not let up until 19 September, when work finally goes ahead. Everything runs according to plan, the rotor blades swinging above the calm sea and gradually rising into the air. The rotor comes to a halt in front of the nacelle, and at around four in the afternoon a worker tightens the final bolt in the upper part of the flange. The rotor and gear-

The barge is sailing out to bring the next Multibrid

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box are now securely fastened to each other. The work of the crane and the installers is done. Onboard ship, men congratulate each other, and some exchange hugs. On the trip back to the harbour, Alexander Kuhn feels the pressure of responsibility lifting off his shoulders; pleased with himself and the world, he toasts success back at port with a Belgian beer. The wind farm on the Thornton Bank shelf is a milestone in offshore wind energy. Located off the Belgian coast, this is the first time a com-mercial offshore project has gone into operation with turbines in the five-megawatt class. This 153-million-euro investment in an initial phase to install 30 Megawatt (MW) is the first offshore project for C-Power, a conglomerate of public and private investors. Belgium has not exactly been famous for its wind industry in the past, but the fact that it is now entering the offshore industry shows that confidence is being placed in offshore wind power as part of the European energy supply mix. Plans include the expansion of Thornton Bank to 300 MW, and the installa-tion of three wind farms with 846 MW capacity by 2012 along Belgium’s short 65-kilometre coastline alone.

Belgium is just the beginning

Energy plans in this country of 10 million people represent just a tiny part of offshore plans in Europe as a whole. Last December, the Eu-ropean Parliament passed a resolution stating that the EU will increase the proportion of renewable sources in the energy supply to 20 percent

by 2020 – an increase of 250 percent compared to 2005. Each country must submit a roadmap by 2010 and achieve intermediate targets from 2012 onwards. Even for a small country such as Belgium, this means increasing the percentage of renewable energy sources from 2.2 to 13 percent and achieving six percent as early as 2010. Thornton Bank is supposed to contribute one-third towards this goal. Because govern-ments need offshore wind power to achieve their renewable energy tar-gets, the more populous EU countries are also pressing ahead with the expansion of offshore wind power. Major power companies, investors from outside the industry and small project companies are obtaining new permits around Europe’s coastline on an ongoing basis. The manu-facturers Areva Multibrid, Bard, Repower, Siemens and Vestas are in-volved in new projects. Together with their suppliers they are investing in steel processing, cable production, rotor blade manufacturing and foundation construction activities in ports on the North and Baltic Seas. The market for offshore wind turbines with 2.3 to 3.6 MW capacity has recently received a major boost in the UK. Britain, which aims to in-crease its percentage of renewable power from 1.3 percent in 2005 to 15 percent in 2020, has a long coastline, a huge need for renewable energy, and has put in place a three-stage plan which is being implemented at full speed. In the initial pilot phase, ten wind farms with a total of 972 MW have now gone online. In autumn 2009, more wind farms with 2,600 MW were under construction and in the second phase, space for installing 8,000 MW of wind power was put out to tender. There has

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been other good news from the UK. The Crown Estate, responsible for the seas around Britain, announced a surprise early start to the third phase of offshore expansion and said that each of the next eleven sea areas would be assigned to a general contractor by the end of 2009. If everything goes according to plan, a further 7,000 wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 25,000 MW will go into operation in the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2020. The estimated market volume is 100 billion pounds sterling or more than 10 billion euros per year on average. Projects are challenging – as in most German projects, the wa-ter at these third phase projects is more than 25 metres deep, and wind farms will often be situated dozens of miles from shore.

UK fires the offshore imagination

The UK has already overtaken pioneer Denmark in installed offshore capacity by implementing the second phase. The UK looks set to occupy this position for a long time to come. At the same time the government announced the launch of the third phase, it also made public that the tariff for offshore electricity would be increased in April 2009 (see table on feed-in tariffs for offshore power, page 35). As a result, and here authors of the most diverse studies and forecasts agree, in the decades ahead the UK will remain the world’s most important offshore market, and together with Germany will account for around 60 percent of the global market. These two countries are followed by the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Spain and Belgium.

“The British government’s mammoth programme makes one thing very clear: the United Kingdom is clearly relying on offshore to achieve its ambitious national and European renewable energy goals,” says Fritz Vahrenholt, head of RWE Innogy in Essen, Germany. RWE also wants to “help shape [this market] as the leading wind farm operator in the UK” (see interview page 28).

“The third bidding round in the UK plays a crucial role in the sub-sequent development of offshore wind energy,” agrees Gustl-Bernhard Friedl, who is in charge of Siemens’ offshore business. The German-Danish manufacturer anticipates slow but steady growth in the offshore market, with worldwide installation up from 1,050 MW in 2009 to 4,200 MW annually in 2014 (see illustration of Siemens offshore market ex-pectations).

Unlike in the UK, development in Germany was held up in 2008 because of many difficulties encountered regarding projects’ distance from the shore and water depths. For these projects to be profitable, they need to rely on the mass production of five-MW wind turbines and their foundations, and to improve installation logistics. The industry saw to these steps in 2009. The weather also did not help matters – a stormy autumn in 2008 scuppered many plans. On 19 September 2008,

the same day that the last turbine was assembled at the Thornton Bank wind farm, work began on constructing the transformer station for Ger-many’s alpha ventus wind farm; the laying of cables to land had been largely completed. But construction work on alpha ventus itself, the building of foundations for the flagship project, had to be postponed until 2009 as weather conditions made it unsafe to work on the crane ship. There were even problems putting up the FINO 3 met mast, which was supposed to have been erected by October 2008 some 80 kilome-tres west of the island of Sylt. This was delayed until 2009 due to high swells. It is now finished and installers have learned their lessons; many businesses are currently developing plans and equipment that will allow installation even in rough seas.

Other planners were thwarted by the financial crisis. Energiekon-tor’s Nordergründe wind farm, with 18 REpower five-MW turbines, could not be constructed as planned after banks failed to provide the loans they had promised. “We now want to build in 2010 instead of 2009,” said a spokesperson. Energiekontor will operate only a few of the tur-bines itself, and plans to sell off interests in the remaining ones. In-deed, the only offshore turbine erected in Germany in 2008 was the five-MW nearshore turbine installed by Bard Engineering off Hooksiel to the north of Wilhelmshaven.

2009: German projects pick up speed

Projects in Germany were finally underway early in 2009. Work is progressing in the Baltic Sea. Contracts for all equipment and supplies have been signed for the 52.5 MW Baltic I project run by EnBW and wpd, which will be installed in 2010. In the North Sea, six Multibrid and six REpower turbines, each boasting five Megawatt, are being erected in the alpha ventus project. Bard Engineering is beginning the first stage with the offshore substation Bard 1 in the project Bard Offshore 1 on

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the German-Dutch sea border; this will be expanded to 400 MW by 2010. In view of the tight situation in financial markets, support from the European Commission is coming at just the right time for investors. According to proposals, the Bard Offshore 1 and alpha ventus projects in the North Sea, and the linking to the grid of Baltic (1/2) and Krieg-ers Flak (1/2/3) in the Baltic are each to receive 150 million euros in investment subsidies. “We sought out the projects according to their maturity,” European Commissioner Andris Piebalgs told Offshore maga-zine. He said that the tough technological challenges facing the Bard and alpha ventus projects, based on the turbines’ highly rated capaci-ties and their location in deep waters, were factors that positively in-fluenced the decision to subsidise the projects. By the end of the year 2010, more than 500 MW of offshore capacity should be up and rotating in German waters.

At the same time, British waters remain an important market for the offshore industry. For the UK in 2009, Siemens is supplying the Gunfleet Sands project (DONG Energy) with 48 3.6-MW offshore wind turbines, Rhyl Flats (RWE) with 25 turbines, and from 2009 to 2010 is also providing 140 turbines for Greater Gabbard (Airtricity/RWE). At the same time, 91 2.3-MW turbines have been installed in the Horns

Rev 2 project in Denmark. In the long term, Siemens aims to gener-ate one-third of its wind energy revenues from offshore turbines and already sees itself as “number one” for offshore. According to Andreas Nauen, head of Siemens Windpower, the company is aiming for a market share of 40 to 50 percent. On this basis, Siemens would have to deliver offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of more than 1,000 MW no later than 2012.

Vestas, itself number one for a long time, also appeared back on the scene at the end of 2008. Its V90-3.0 offshore turbine was taken off the market for a year following problems with its gearbox and has now undergone technical revision. At the end of 2008, Vestas was able to announce that the first turbines of this type would be delivered to Vattenfall in the UK for the 300 MW Thanet offshore wind farm. Some 57 out of 60 such turbines were installed in the Robin Rigg project in 2009 and will start generating their first offshore power in late summer. “We’re back!” says Anders Søe-Jensen, head of the Vestas offshore de-partment, with an eye on the competition. The British offshore market with its nearshore projects in moderate water depths up to 15 metres is of particular interest to Vestas, he says. However, Søe-Jensen is giv-ing nothing away concerning Vestas’ objectives in the offshore sector


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and the potential further development of the three-MW turbine by the company’s 1,000-strong research team.

REpower in Bremerhaven is more forthcoming: “We want to step up production to reach 80 to 100 turbines in not more than four years,” says Norbert Giese, head of the offshore business unit, revealing RE-power’s interim target. In the medium term, REpower is planning to construct 120 5M and 6M turbines in 2015 and up to 200 additional units. A team of 40 people is already working to assemble the nacelles in Bremerhaven.

REpower receives major order from RWE

Norbert Giese is anticipating 10 offshore projects globally on av-erage each year over the coming years and in February he secured for his own company one of the biggest deals the wind industry has ever seen. RWE Innogy ordered 250 5M and 6M turbines from RE-power. The order is worth around two billion euros. The turbines will be delivered from 2011 to 2015 and RWE is planning to use the first 150 to 180 turbines in the Innogy Nordsee 1 offshore project in Ger-many (formerly Enova Offshore North Sea Windpower III). The re-

maining turbines are earmarked for British and Dutch wind farms. The order utilises a considerable portion of REpower’s planned produc-tion capacity. The fact that construction sites are often some distance

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Europe remains strong, China is gainingJOhn WESTWOOd of Douglas-Westwood about the consequences of the financial crisis, hope for lower steel prices und China – the offshore market of the future.

Offshore magazine: how has the financial crisis changed the market?John Westwood: it will cause the most problems for projects still several years from comple-tion, especially those where owners have not made a final investment decision. We expect some projects to fail where the economics are marginal. 2008 saw plenty of activity in acquisition of projects, with companies such as Vattenfall moving to expand their portfolio. We expect more movement through 2009 as some players look for ways out of projects where the rate of return is below initial expectations, and others seek partners to share costs and risk on large developments. This extends to major players such as Centrica who is expected to soon

announce partners for some of its very large UK portfolio. There is hope that turbine prices will fall due to the financial crisis and the lower steel prices we have seen. Whilst this is expected onshore, offshore there is little competition within the market-place and any reductions are likely to be more moderate.

Which profit can an investor expect from his offshore wind power investments? investors would typically look for approximately 12 percent return. Current projects are in the nine to 14 percent range.

Will britain be the leading mar-ket for the years to come? The UK is expected to lead the market for at least the next five to 10 years. The combination of

a reasonably strong financial incentive, and a structured permitting system gives confi-dence. germany has become an important market, and tendering activity on a number of large projects is now well-advanced, bringing activity which has been long-expected. The new tariff is a major driver here. Whilst the netherlands holds much potential, it is essential that long-term mechanisms and targets are brought into place soon. Denmark has good longer-term potential, with high-quality sites which are relatively easy to develop. a major future player will, however, be asia. Projects off China for example are progressing quickly and domestic turbine manufacturers are pre-paring offshore turbines there.

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from the factory is not a problem for REpower’s head of offshore. “For our assembly facility, it’s important that suppliers are close by. Whether the transport ships head to the UK or the German North Sea doesn’t matter,” Giese says. He adds that British companies would be in the running espe-cially for the foundation construction. A similar view prevails at Siemens. During the construction phase of the Lynn / Inner Dowsing project, six complete wind turbines at a time were loaded onto an installation vessel in Denmark and transported directly to the project site off the British coast. “The distance isn’t all that important. We finished Lynn / Inner Dowsing ahead of schedule despite the distance,” says Gustl-Bernhard Friedl from Siemens. He says that this is also why Siemens is not plan-ning to set up its own production facilities in the UK at the present time.

Areva and REpower currently working to capacity

Areva Multibrid is also staying loyal to its location. “In the long term we want to supply up to 100 M5000 turbines each year from Bremerhaven,” says Managing Director Félix Debierre. The French energy group Areva acquired a stake in the Bremerhaven company Multibrid at the end of 2007. Up to that time, project planning for this turbine type was carried out by the Multibrid parent company Prokon Nord. The first six offshore turbines are now up and running. The alpha ventus showcase and pilot project produced electricity for the first time on 4 August 2009. By the end of August, all six M5000

turbines had been installed without any major difficulties. Areva also succeeded in acquiring additional customers for the M5000. Starting in 2011, the Borkum West II wind farm, which is directly adjacent to alpha ventus, will be installed using a total of 40 Multibrid turbines for Trianel in the first stage, a strong consortium of municipal utility companies. Even though bank financing has become more difficult for Trianel too as a result of the financial crisis, Niels Erdmann is confi-dent: “Trianel will raise the financing for Borkum West II,” says the Prokon Nord wind energy project manager. In the meantime his com-pany has ordered its own installation vessel for the installation work. Back in March, Areva signed a binding memorandum of understand-ing with the project development company Wetfeet Offshore Winden-ergy (Building company Strabag, Stadtwerke München – the municipal utility of the city of Munich, Hesse utility HEAG) to supply 80 M5000 turbines for the Global Tech I project, due to be completed in the North Sea by 2012. A special feature of the wind farm, situated in waters 40 metres deep, is that turbines will have a gravity foundation rather than stand on tripods fixed in the seabed. So far this has been used only for smaller turbines in shallower waters. Ed. Züblin in Cuxhaven will supply this 4,500 ton colossus. For comparison, the tower and turbine together weigh only 1,500 tons. This means for Areva Multibrid that the production plant in Bremerhaven is currently working to capacity. There is more good news coming from a place 120 kilometres further west. Since the end of 2003, Russian investor Arngolt Bekker has been

developing a company that of-fers all features of offshore busi-ness from a single source, from planning services, and the con-struction of its own turbines and foundations, to financing and operations. In Emden the com-pany builds wind turbines under the name Bard 5.0, while in Cux-haven it has set up its own factory for steel foundation structures. Giant tripiles are now waiting at the factory to be installed at the Bard Offshore 1 pilot project around 100 kilometres off Bor-kum. Bard has chalked up an im-pressive list of accomplishments over the last two years. Early in 2008, a shipyard in Lithuania began building an installation vessel for the company, Wind

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Lift 1, as well as an accommodation/transformer platform for the Bard Offshore 1 wind farm. In August, the first five-MW turbine was installed close to the dyke at Wilhelmshaven. In May 2009, Bard announced that following the five-MW turbine, a 6.5-MW turbine is now being planned. In June, the transformer platform was set up in the North Sea and the Wind Lift 1 installation vessel was launched from the Lithuanian ship-yard. “The wind farm will be ready by the end of 2010,” confidently asserts Anton Baraev, head of Bard Engineering. Bard is planning wind farms in Europe with a total capacity of up to 3,000 megawatts. The company employs nearly 1,000 people in northwestern Germany. Despite this diversity, the offshore manufacturing scene is still rela-tively uncluttered. Around 160 wind farms are currently at various stages of planning in Europe, and there is much greater variety among investors than among manufacturers. Other energy companies in addition to Airtricity, Bard, Blackstone, Enertrag and wpd, energy utilities are now also planning projects worth hundreds of millions of euros; RWE, E.ON and EnBW from Germany, Vattenfall from Sweden, Dong from Denmark and EDF from France are particularly active. Essent and Nuon in the Netherlands have now been taken over by RWE and

Vattenfall respectively. Even Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s global cooperative platform for sustainability, is involved in the London Array project which is currently the world’s largest planned offshore wind farm. Large companies like these are not only used to investing money in the orders of magnitude required offshore in connection with their fos-sil fuel power station projects, they are also the ones who, because of high profits in the energy market and the securities that are available, have the least worries regarding the financial crisis; following the credit crunch the banks have tightened their requirements for the equity ratio from the expected 30 percent to as much as 50 percent at the present time, while interest rates have also gone up.

“Like winning the lottery”

The wide variety of offshore countries, manufacturers and investors means that a flood of demand is predicted for which suppliers are now preparing themselves. The fact that the European governments’ targets far exceed manufac-turers’ capacities also gives manufacturers some certainty. Take the example of Cuxhaven. Back in 2007, Cuxhaven Steel Construction (CSC) from the Bard group was set up

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here. Then in 2008 the steel tower manufacturer AMBAU arrived to be-gin production of large-diameter tubular segments and other parts with large diameters and high component weights for towers and founda-tions – all for the offshore industry. In January 2009, Ed. Züblin an-nounced that as a construction company it was investing a triple-digit million sum in Cuxhaven to produce concrete foundations for offshore

wind power stations. This is set to create 500 new jobs in the short term. The State of Lower Saxony is also completing an offshore wharf in Cuxhaven at a cost of 50 million euros. “For Cuxhaven the invest-ments in offshore wind energy are like winning the lottery,” says Mayor Arno Stabbert, who is delighted with recent developments and already sees the city of 50,000 at the northernmost tip of Lower Saxony as be-ing a “European centre” for the construction of offshore foundations. Cuxhaven isn’t the only city with a feel-good factor. Emden has been home to Bard Engineering’s production facilities since 2005. Bremer-haven has now started advertising itself as the “home port of the wind industry”. In this city on the Weser estuary, a close-knit network employing a total of more than 1000 people has formed around the manufacturers Areva Multibrid and Repower. The City also comprises researchers such as the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and En-ergy System Technology (IWES), planners, and suppliers with the foun-

Made it:

The wind turbine is ready for operation.

Concluding handshake.


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dation manufacturer WeserWind Offshore Construction Georgsmarien-hütte. Power Blades, a joint venture between REpower and SGL ROTEC, has been producing rotor blades since August 2008 for the REpower MM92 and the new RE 3.x onshore turbines in factory buildings that are up to 456 m long. More than 200 people are employed here, and the plant, with its direct access to the port, has the capacity to produce 300 offshore rotor blades per year. “We will produce the first prototypes for the 6M offshore turbines at the end of 2009,” says Managing Di-rector Lars Weigel. “Because we are able to produce both onshore and offshore blades in our facilities, we don’t have any capacity utilisa-tion problems if the offshore projects get delayed. We can shut down the onshore capacities if we need them to produce the offshore rotor blades.” When it needed the rotor blades for Thornton Bank, REpower was still buying them from LM Glasfiber in Denmark. Its own offshore capacity is to be expanded to 100 blade sets by 2011. At the centre of this wind energy industry in Bremerhaven, but also with many mem-bers in the whole of Northwest-Germany, stands the industry net-work organization Wind Energy Agency Bremerhaven/Bremen (WAB). In short, the industry is ready to supply the wide variety of planned projects with the required technology. John Westwood, director of the

consulting firm Douglas-Westwood in Canterbury, UK, notes that the investor side is now “almost completely dominated by the power com-panies.” Westwood anticipates that 564 MW of offshore capacity will be installed in Europe this year. He estimates that this figure will almost double to 932 MW in 2010. The trend is on the up.

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Offshore magazine: the uk has announced a new round of tenders for the expansion of offshore wind power. is rWe bidding for more wind farms?Vahrenholt: Of course. For the third round we have formed a strong bidding consortium with airtricity/SSe, Statkraft and Sta-toilhydro. With our know-how, expertise and financial strength, we’ve got a good starting position in the upcoming award procedure. if we are successful and obtain approval to develop zones in the third round, we want to work together on building the wind farms. at the moment we already have a strong presence off the British coast and we operate the UK’s first offshore wind farm, north hoyle. We want to connect Rhyl Flats to the grid this year, which is 90 MW. The offshore work for the greater gabbard wind farm, which will generate around 510 MW and in which we have a 50 percent stake, is also starting in 2009. We have nearly all the necessary permits for the 750 MW gwynt y Mor wind farm. Together with Seaenergy we’ve also got the green light from the Crown estate for plans to build an offshore wind farm with around 900 MW. On top of this, there are plans to install another 2000 MW in the UK.

rWe is getting involved in german offshore development with an enOVA project, innogy

nordsee 1. When are the first installation vessels going to be sourced and the first supply agreements signed – aside from the framework agreement with repower? The framework agreement with Repower concerns the delivery of up to 250 offshore wind turbines in the five and six-megawatt class. incidentally, with a potential volume of around two billion euros this is the largest contract that has been concluded to date for offshore wind energy use. With this agreement we have secured the 150 to 180 turbines that are required for innogy nor-dsee 1. The possible increment to 250 turbines will help us to implement further projects in our offshore pipeline – for example in the UK or the netherlands. Of course we are also in talks with other companies concerning sup-ply contracts. For the construction vessels we also wanted to be on the safe side and are therefore looking at vari-ous options. One is to procure our own ships that are designed to meet our exact needs and, above all, that we would be able to use flexibly.

Are you sure that you can achieve your target returns with the current payment rates for offshore power? A figure of 15 percent is often quoted here. Our targeted returns are ambi-tious, but they are still below 10 percent. if we couldn’t achieve

this, we wouldn’t be investing. RWe is a stock exchange listed company that is careful in the use of its investment funds.

Will rWe still build the wind farm if the operational terms of the nuclear power plants are extended?Of course we will. The future belongs to renewable energy and RWe is pursuing a very clear growth strategy. We are aiming to have 4,500 MW under construc-tion and in operation by 2012. if turbines run at average capacity, this works out at around 15,000 gWh of power generation per year. however, we need nuclear power to give renewable energy sources sufficient opportunity to develop. Our neighbours in Den-mark or italy, for example, have clearly understood this. if the nuclear power stations in ger-many were shut down tomorrow, then to a considerable extent they would have to be replaced with conventional technology. That would mean an additional 150 million tons of CO2, which is roughly as much as all the road traffic in germany emits in a year.

What do you consider to be the most important difference between the german and uk markets? The structure of the funding sys-tem is completely different and the way the wind farms are con-nected to the grid is regulated differently. another major differ-

ence is the distance of the wind farms to the shore. Compared to the UK, in germany we have to build farms a relatively long way from the coast in deep waters. Just one example: our British wind farm north hoyle is situated eight kilometres from the coast; Rhyl Flats is currently being built right next to it. By contrast, in-nogy nordsee 1 is being built 40 kilometres north of Juist island. This creates even greater chal-lenges for planning, implementa-tion and technology.

is rWe still looking for more projects in germany? Our target of 4,500 MW under construction or in operation by 2012 relates to europe. germany is an important market here, i’m not ruling anything out.

is the financial crisis making it more difficult for rWe as well to obtain offshore financing? By 2012 we will invest at least one billion euros every year in renewable energy. We are stick-ing to this – there are no ifs and buts. We are able to do this as a result of the solid cash flow from RWe.

“at least a billion euros per year for renewable energy”

Shortly after leaving REpower to become CEO at RWE Innogy, FRITz VAhREnhOLT announced ambitious plans for the offshore business. Never mind the future of the group’s nuclear power stations – the future belongs to renewable energy. RWE aims to operate 4,500 MW. Vahrenholt is now even considering acquiring his own instal-lation vessels for offshore.


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Offshore magazine: What mo-tivates a financial investor like blackstone to invest in offshore wind power? Jens assheuer: in the first instance the private equity in-dustry is interested in the size of the investment. We have a project volume of more than one billion euros here, with an equity capital requirement of several hundred million euros. These are the usual orders of magnitude for private equity firms like Blackstone. What made you choose, of all things, one of the most ambi-tious projects? 400 MW, 80 km from the shore – couldn’t you have found an easier project? apart from the nordergründe wind farm by energiekontor, there are hardly any small and nearshore projects in germany. nor are these smaller projects looking for equity. apart from that, the equity capital require-ments for such projects are

too small for an investor like Blackstone. So the question never arose. What are the plus points of Meerwind? Water depths of 22 to 26 metres are very moderate in comparison with 40 or 45 metres in other projects – this is reflected in the design and the costs of the foundation structures. We are only 12 nautical miles away from heligoland, which means we can carry out servicing and repairs from the island. Our reaction times are less than an hour. We would have to allow five to six hours by boat from the mainland. This location has charm. how many installers and technicians will you station on heligoland? We want to operate the wind farm ourselves from the outset and also carry out maintenance and repair work ourselves. We won’t know the exact number of techni-

cians until our maintenance and service plan is finalised.

You compared a large number of projects before the purchase in July 2008. how do they differ from each other? Because the feed-in tariff under the german Renewable energy Sources act (eeg) varies accord-ing to the distance from the shore and water depth, there is no longer any easy distinction between good and bad projects. The eeg does a good job of evening that out. The status of project development was more important to us. if you buy a project today, the earliest you can build in 2012. The investors have to come up with significant supplier contracts and financial resources before transpower, formerly e.On netz, will lay the grid connection in the north Sea. This work has a lead time of up to 36 months. The timeline is the most critical point.

What is the range of annual full load hours that can be attained and what is your estimate for Meerwind? The equivalent full load hours are in the region of 3,800. since blackstone’s involvement was announced in summer 2008, nothing more has been heard about the project. What stage is the technical planning currently at? There have already been talks and negotiations with the main suppliers, and the plans for maintenance and operation have progressed well. We have also begun preparing everything to satisfy e.On’s grid connection conditions and hence secure a promise of a grid connection. Which wind turbines will be used? Originally 3.6-MW tur-bines were planned. We are investigating both a 288 MW and a 400 MW option. do you see any big differences between manufacturers? The turbine manufacturers have not yet come as far as they should have done. They have not ramped up capacities sufficiently yet and their sub-suppliers also have not made sufficient investments. Be-sides that, the turbines’ test run times are too short. One to three years of operational experience is not much for a technology that is supposed to withstand more than 20 years of extreme weather conditions.

MeerwInd – a fInancIal InvestOr wIth the wInd In hIs saIls

“This location has charm”Just in from northwestern Germany, JEnS ASShEUER arrives at Berlin’s central railway station in a relaxed mood. A meeting has been cancelled in Berlin, which means we can look for somewhere quiet in the nearby Mitte district to have the interview. Over cups of tea and mini satay skewers, the managing director of WindMW in Bremerhaven explains the offshore plans of his majority shareholder Blackstone from New York.

MeerwInd Ost/sÜd OffshOre wInd farMsThe Meerwind Ost/Süd offshore wind farms (Meerwind) are situated 12 nautical miles (23 kilometres) to the north of heligoland and 50 miles (80 kilometres) from the north German coast. WindMW, based in Bremerhaven, is responsible for the planning. Blackstone has an 80 percent stake in the company and Windland Energiezeugung owns 20 percent. The project was granted approval by the German Federal Maritime and hydrographic Agency (BSh) in hamburg on 16 May 2007. The nordsee Ost (Es-sent/RWE Innogy and Amrumbank West (E.On) wind farms are situated directly next in the north to Meerwind. Their shared power transmission line will be routed via the Brunsbüttel connection point. The Meerwind project is formally divided into two wind farms. In each case 40 turbines with 3.6 or 5 MW are to be constructed in Meerwind Ost and Meerwind Süd. The project is being funded via a project financing model. WindMW engaged KfW-IPEX and dexia to prepare the project financing.


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Aren’t the risks too high to be starting out with an immature technology? Then we wouldn’t have bought the wind farm [laughs]. We are convinced, and we will also verify this with our engineers, that the reliability of turbine technology will keep improving over the years ahead. So don’t worry. We are taking out insurance for the event that three or four gearboxes break down. What you can’t do is insure all 80 turbines against serial losses. in the event of a serial loss, the wind turbine manufacturers must find a solution together with their customers. there have already been serial losses in a number of offshore wind farms. Wouldn’t it be a

good idea to invest your equity somewhere else? You have to assume that risk if you want to build a wind farm. The turbine manufacturers must be held to account in that case. planning for other offshore projects has been put on ice because of the financial crisis. blackstone has lost one-third of its stock market value. how is the crash in the finance indus-try affecting you? it’s definitely difficult in the current climate to get project financing from the banks. But the market will stabilise again and the project financing business will also pick up again. The only thing you can do at the moment is take a clear-cut and profes-sional approach, distribute the

risks sensibly in the project and involve the banks and insurance companies in the contractual negotiations from the outset so that all contracts are bankable from the beginning. Then you will get money straight away as soon as lending starts again. When will that happen? it’s impossible to say. You won’t lose your money? Blackstone supplies the equity capital as a shareholder in the company. That is assured and the money is available through a closed-ended fund. What differences do you see between investment conditions in germany and the uk? The german market offers a

reliable feed-in tariff of 15 euro cents per kWh. in the UK you get market rates in some cases for the electricity supplied. Before the financial crisis you got paid more in the UK for the power fed into the grid. Because of the weak pound, the UK market is less attractive at the moment because the costs are in euros but the revenue is in pounds. in ger-many the eeg means that you can make very precise calculations. Are you looking for further projects? no comment. When will Meerwind start gen-erating electricity? if we can get over all the obsta-cles, the first 40 turbines will go online in 2012.

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The amended Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), which came into force in Germany on 1 January 2009, increased the feed-in tar-iff for offshore wind power. The act ensures that all turbines put into service before 1 January 2016 receive 15 euro cents per kWh of wind-generated electricity. This rate is valid for a period of 12 years for all turbines. To promote the construction of wind farms that need to be built even further offshore and in even deeper waters, the basic feed-in tariff is supplemented by an extension of the period of payment. Turbines located more than 12 nautical miles from the coast in waters at least 20 metres deep benefit from an extension of half a month’s payment for every full nautical mile additional distance from shore, and an extension of 1.7 months for every additional metre of water depth. For example, a wind turbine sited 30 nautical miles from the nearest shore in water 40 metres deep receives a feed-in tariff of 15 euro cents per kWh for 18.7 years. Hence the payment period for most German offshore wind farms is in the region of 20 years, which puts them on an equal footing with the onshore wind industry. The tariff per kWh falls by five percent per year starting from 2015.

Alongside the calculable, fixed feed-in tariff, a second line of support in Germany is provided by an act to accelerate infrastructure planning. This Infrastructure Planning Acceleration Act enshrines in law that the power grid operators transpower stromübertragungs gmbh (former E.ON Netz) for the North Sea and Vattenfall Europe Baltic Offshore Grid GmbH (VE BOG) for the Baltic are to construct the power grid for the offshore wind farms at the request of the wind farm operators – so-called power points at sea. As a result, operators should save between one-fifth to one-third of total investment costs.

a sOlId fInancIal basIsThe offshore industry in Germany can rely on a high feed-in tariff and a stable political framework.

Basic remuneration 12 * 12 = 144 months

Distance supplement (30 sm -12 sm) * 0.5 = 9 months

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EEG rules after 1 January 2009

§ 31 Offshore wind energy(1) For electricity from offshore turbines the feed-in tariff is 3.5 euro cents per kilowatt hour (basic rate). (2) In the first twelve years from the time the turbine is first put into operation the feed-in tariff shall be 13.0 euro cents per kilowatt hour (initial rate). For turbines that are first put into operation before 1 January 2016, the initial payment as per sen-tence 1 increases by 2.0 euro cents per kilowatt hour. The period in which the initial rate is paid as per sentences 1 and 2 shall be extended for electricity from turbines which are erected at a distance of at least twelve nautical miles and in a water depth of at least 20 metres for each full nautical mile in excess of twelve nautical miles by 0.5 months and for each additional full metre of water depth by 1.7 months. (Paragraph (3) excludes offshore wind turbines in nature and landscape conservation areas from the feed-in tariff.)

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Current Feed-in Tariff duration Sub-sidies

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Further development

GERMAny 3.5 cents/kWh basic remuneration Life span

13 cents/kWh initial remuneration for turbines linked to the grid before 1 January 2016

Depending on loca-tion, at least 12 years

None Grid operators No Regional amendment as of 2012

Feed-in tariff agreement is prolonged if turbine is more than 12 nautical miles from land and stand-ing in waters deeper than 20 metres.

If turbine is more than12 nautical miles from land, prolongation is 0.5 months per extra nautical mile.

If turbine stands in waters more than 20 metres deep, prolongation is 1.7 months per additional metre of water depth.

dEnMARK 6.69 cents/kWh Nystedt II 50,000 full-load hours (about 14 years), then the market price

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6.69 cents/kWh Horns Rev II

FRAnCE 13.0 cents/kWh (10 years), additional remunera-tion (10 years) depend on annual full load hours0 - 2,800 hours = 13 cents/kWh; 2,800 - 3,200 linear interpolation; 3,200 = 9 cents/kWh; 3,200 - 3,900 linear interpolation, 3,900 - ∞ 3 cents/kWh

Fixed tariffs for 10 years, then variable tariffs for 10 years.

No Wind farm operators

Yes 17 - 18 cents/kWh without additional remuneration, 16 cents/kWh with remuneration (Grid connection)

UnITEd KInGdOM Price for current certificates is 50 GPB/MWh*1.5 ROC = 75 pounds/MWh = about 8.82 cents/kWh certificate + 6.41 cents/kWh market price includ-ing tax incentives = 15.23 cents/kWh

Certificates for 25 years

Yes Grid operators Yes Grid connection through grid operators - wind farm operators pay fee; projects that order wind turbines within the next two years (2009/2010) receive 2.0 ROCS for every MWh, and projects that place orders in 2010/2011 will receive an additional 1.75 ROCs; a new remuneration sys-tem is being prepared.

nEThERLAndS Annual adjustment in the SDE regulation; SDE means Stimulering Duurzame Energieproduktie. Operators receive a supplement per kW/h on top of the market price, but this figure hasn’t been determined yet. The government published in the summer of 2009 a draft ruling on the granting of project licenses for the North Sea, and the SDE tender will be discussed starting in November 2009, with a decision expected in April 2010. In the Netherlands the financial support for all renewable energy sources is specified in the provisions of the SDE regulation. Under this SDE financial support scheme producers receive, on top of their market price revenues, a premium per kWh produced. The Dutch government will provide support for a total of 950 MW offshore wind power in the period 2007 - 2011. This will bring the overall offshore wind capacity in the Netherlands to a level of 1178 MW. Contrary to the approach followed for other renewable energy sources, the exact level of the SDE financial support for offshore wind energy has not yet been determined, but will result from a tender approach which is open to license holders only. The government published draft-decisions on applications for licenses to build offshore wind farms in the Dutch part of the North Sea in the summer of 2009. It is foreseen that the SDE tender will be opened as of 1 November 2009 with decisions expected around 1 April 2010.

SWEdEn Market price + green certificates (until 2030) + environment bonus (2009). The average annual market price in 2007 until July was 229.23 SEK/MWh (2.49 cents/kWh). Operators also receive a certificate for every MWh. Energy suppli-ers are obliged to produce a certain number of certificates every year. The number of certificates is determined by the volume sold the year before and the quota specified by the government each year for the share of renewable energies desired in the overall energy mix.The time limit set for certificate trading was extended from 2010 to 2030. With that, the remuneration in 2007 was about 6 - 7.5 cents/KWh; an additional budget for investment subsidies for new offshore wind farms amounting to some 350 million Swedish krona (37.5 million euros) was accorded for 2008 - 2012.

Certificates for 15 years and an environ-ment bonus until 2009

Yes The govern-ment has set up a working group to evaluate free access to the grid.

No

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The German Ministry for the Environment is providing 50 million euros over the coming years to fund research into offshore wind energy at the alpha ventus test site.

The Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology (ISET) in Kassel is heading the coordination project in which individual associated research projects can be networked and represented. The alpha ventus test field is equipped with a wide range of measurement systems to en-

able detailed data to be supplied to all the projects involved. The most important task of the coordination project is to give a strong structure to the shared programme for the associated projects. In order to be able to exploit synergies and raise the quality of results, a coordinated plan was developed for collaboration between the various projects in the test field.Within the research programme as a whole, various institutes and companies have so far undertaken projects on the following themes:

RAVE Research Projects

name of Project Company/Institution

Measurements and data management Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany BSH

Development, construction and operation of alpha ventus

Development and optimisation of offshore turbine components with regard to costs, longevity and servicibility

REpower Systems

Development of LIDAR wind measurements for the offshore test field Stuttgart University

Yield-optimised and cost-efficient rotor blade REpower Systems

GIGAWIND alpha ventus - integrated dimensioning plan for OWEA support structures based on measurements taken at alpha ventus offshore test field

Leibniz University, Hanover

Foundation construction under cyclical load Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing BAM

Innovative enhancement in development, construction and testing of the Multibrid M5000 offshore wind turbine under difficult conditions at the alpha ventus offshore test field

AREVA Multibrid

Measurement of turbine operating noise to determine noise input generated by noise transmission between tower and water at turbines in the offshore test field

Flensburg Technical College

Monitoring of offshore wind energy utilisation in Germany - offshore WMEP Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology IWES

Grid integration of offshore wind farms Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology IWES

Ecological research - evaluation of BSH standard testing plan BSH

RAVE coordination project Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology IWES, German Wind Energy Institute DEWI

Verification of offshore wind turbines and design specifications Stuttgart University

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Düsseldorf

Kassel

Wuppertal

Köln

Aachen

Münster

Hamm

Essen

Bielefeld

Hannover

Braunschweig

Bremen

Halle

Magdeburg

Leipzig

Dresden

Chemnitz

Kiel

Lübeck

Szczecin

Gorzów

Wielkopolski

Poznañ

Lublin

Radom

Kielce

Koszalin

Gdansk/Danzig

Kaliningrad

Bydgoszcz

Århus

Malmö

Helsingborg

Kristianstad

Hässleholm

Halmstad

Växjö

Karlskrona

Kalmar

Antwerpen

Groningen

Enschede

Rotterdam

Eindhoven

Gent

Almere

Breda

Göteborg

Kungsbacka

Varberg

Borås

Jönköping

Ålborg

Elbl�g

Cuxhaven

S�upsk

Flensburg

Oldenburg

Bremerhaven

Bochum

Erfurt

Liège

Toruñ

Wismar

Potsdam

Wrze�nia

Emden

Osnabrück

Heming

EEZ

Frederikshavn

Hirtshals

Oskarshamm

Gießen

Odense

Maribo

Mörbylãnga

Lille

Hamburg

Berlin

Warsaw/Warschau

Brüssel

Amsterdam

Kopenhagen

Riga

Slagelse

Polen


Litauen

Lettland

Frankreich

Dänemark

Belgien

Niederlande

Schweden

Weissrussland

Ukraine

Luxemburg

Texel

Vlieland

TerschellingAmeland

Borkum

Öland

Bornholm

Lolland

Samsø

Rügen

Møn

Usedom

Falster

Als

Norderney

Juist

Baltrum

Mellrum

Scharhörn

Heligoland

12-mile limit

Gröde

Süderoog-Sand

Schiermonnikoog

Trischen

Neuwerk

LangeoogSpiekeroog

Pellworm

Amrum

Sylt

Föhr

Wangerooge

Fanø

Rømø

AErø

Langeland

Fehmarn

Hiddensee

Fyn

Darß

Zingst

Poel

GotlandsLän

Sjæl land

Fischland

2211

55

1547

56

37

6466

6765

4137

3737

21

43

42

28

58

2924

57

25 26

34

51

23

61

60 44

63FINO 3

36

68

Emden

Rostock

1 Rostock-Breitling

Project in operation 2009/2010

Research platform

EEZ = Exclusive Economic Zone

Vilnius

Boulogne-

sur-Mer

Brügge

Calais

Bonn

Dortmund

Düsseldorf

Kassel

Wuppertal

Köln

Aachen

Münster

Hamm

Essen

Bielefeld

Hannover

Braunschweig

Bremen

Halle

Magdeburg

Leipzig

Dresden

Chemnitz

Kiel

Lübeck

Szczecin

Gorzów

Wielkopolski

Poznañ

Lublin

Radom

Kielce

Koszalin

Gdansk/Danzig

Kaliningrad

Bydgoszcz

Århus

Malmö

Helsingborg

Kristianstad

Hässleholm

Halmstad

Växjö

Karlskrona

Kalmar

Antwerpen

Groningen

Enschede

Rotterdam

Eindhoven

Gent

Almere

Breda

Göteborg

Kungsbacka

Varberg

Borås

Jönköping

Ålborg

Elbl�g

Cuxhaven

S�upsk

Flensburg

Oldenburg

Bremerhaven

Bochum

Erfurt

Liège

Toruñ

Wismar

Potsdam

Wrze�nia

Emden

Osnabrück

Heming

EEZ

Frederikshavn

Hirtshals

Oskarshamm

Gießen

Odense

Maribo

Mörbylãnga

Lille

Hamburg

Berlin

Warsaw/Warschau

Brüssel

Amsterdam

Kopenhagen

Riga

Slagelse

Polen


Litauen

Lettland

Frankreich

Dänemark

Belgien

Niederlande

Schweden

Weissrussland

Ukraine

Luxemburg

Texel

Vlieland

TerschellingAmeland

Borkum

Öland

Bornholm

Lolland

Samsø

Rügen

Møn

Usedom

Falster

Als

Norderney

Juist

Baltrum

Mellrum

Scharhörn

Heligoland

12-mile limit

Gröde

Süderoog-Sand

Schiermonnikoog

Trischen

Neuwerk

LangeoogSpiekeroog

Pellworm

Amrum

Sylt

Föhr

Wangerooge

Fanø

Rømø

AErø

Langeland

Fehmarn

Hiddensee

Fyn

Darß

Zingst

Poel

GotlandsLän

Sjæl land

Fischland

80 x BARD VM (2010/2011)Tripile foundations

Offshore substation BARD 1 with accommodations

Offshore substation, connecting to the shore; BorWin alpha transpower Stromü-bertragungs GmbH

5 BARd Offshore 1

Offshore substation

6 x Repower 5M (2009)Jacket foundations

FINO 1

1 alpha ventus test fi eld

46

1

6 x Multibrid M5000Tripod foundations (2009)

Offshore substation alpha ventus

17 nordergründe18 Repower 5-MW-Turbines

serVice

gerMan OffshOre prOjects

nOrth seaOPERATIOnAL1 alpha ventus 2 dollard Emden3 hooksiel

LICEnSEd WInd FARMS 4 Amrumbank West5 BARd Offshore 16 Borkum Riffgrund I7 Borkum Riffgrund West8 Borkum West II

9 Butendiek10 dan Tysk11 Global Tech I12 Gode Wind I13 Gode Wind II14 he dreiht15 hochsee Windpark nordsee16 Meerwind17 nordergründe18 nördlicher Grund19 nordsee Ost20 Sandbank 24

WInd FARMS UndERGOInG LICEnSInG PROCEdURES 21 Aiolos22 Albatros23 Aquamarin24 AreaC I25 AreaC II26 AreaC III27 Bernstein28 Bight Power I29 Bight Power II30 Borkum Riffgat31 Borkum Riffgrund II

32 Borkum Riffgrund West II33 Citrin34 diamant35 Innogy nordsee 136 Euklas37 Gaia I - IV38 Gode Wind II39 he dreiht II40 hochsee Testfeld helgoland41 horizont I42 horizont II43 horizont III44 Kaikas


38

Polen


Litauen

Lettland

Frankreich

Denmark

Belgien

Netherlands

Germany

Schweden

Weissrussland

Ukraine

Luxemburg

north Sea

Baltic Sea

German EEZ5433

50

27

59

514

39

Licenced applications overlap in these areas

Netherlands EEZ

FINO 1

3513

6

1

31

30

752

328

4612

4948

FINO 2

EEZArkona Becken Südost

measurement mast

3

5 11

7 12

13 14

6

2

8

9

4

10


Heligoland

20

1018

62

9

440

19 32

16 16

3 Baltic 121 Windturbines Siemens SWT 2.3-93, 48.3 MW

Dollard/Emden2

Cuxhaven

Bremerhaven

Bremen

17

3

53


Project in development

Project areas

E.ON Netz Offshore Grid Cluster

Research platform

Vilnius

Boulogne-

sur-Mer

Brügge

Calais

Bonn

Dortmund

Düsseldorf

Kassel

Wuppertal

Köln

Aachen

Münster

Hamm

Essen

Bielefeld

Hannover

Braunschweig

Bremen

Halle

Magdeburg

Leipzig

Dresden

Chemnitz

Kiel

Lübeck

Szczecin

Gorzów

Wielkopolski

Poznañ

Lublin

Radom

Kielce

Koszalin

Gdansk/Danzig

Kaliningrad

Bydgoszcz

Århus

Malmö

Helsingborg

Kristianstad

Hässleholm

Halmstad

Växjö

Karlskrona

Kalmar

Antwerpen

Groningen

Enschede

Rotterdam

Eindhoven

Gent

Almere

Breda

Göteborg

Kungsbacka

Varberg

Borås

Jönköping

Ålborg

Elbl�g

Cuxhaven

S�upsk

Flensburg

Oldenburg

Bremerhaven

Bochum

Erfurt

Liège

Toruñ

Wismar

Potsdam

Wrze�nia

Emden

Osnabrück

Heming

EEZ

Frederikshavn

Hirtshals

Oskarshamm

Gießen

Odense

Maribo

Mörbylãnga

Lille

Hamburg

Berlin

Warsaw/Warschau

Brüssel

Amsterdam

Kopenhagen

Riga

Slagelse

Polen


Litauen

Lettland

Frankreich

Dänemark

Belgien

Niederlande

Schweden

Weissrussland

Ukraine

Luxemburg

Texel

Vlieland

TerschellingAmeland

Borkum

Öland

Bornholm

Lolland

Samsø

Rügen

Møn

Usedom

Falster

Als

Norderney

Juist

Baltrum

Mellrum

Scharhörn

Heligoland

12-mile limit

Gröde

Süderoog-Sand

Schiermonnikoog

Trischen

Neuwerk

LangeoogSpiekeroog

Pellworm

Amrum

Sylt

Föhr

Wangerooge

Fanø

Rømø

AErø

Langeland

Fehmarn

Hiddensee

Fyn

Darß

Zingst

Poel

GotlandsLän

Sjæl land

Fischland

2211

55

1547

56

37

6466

6765

4137

3737

21

43

42

28

58

2924

57

25 26

34

51

23

61

60 44

63FINO 3

36

68

Emden

Rostock

1 Rostock-Breitling

Project in operation 2009/2010

Research platform

EEZ = Exclusive Economic Zone

Vilnius

Boulogne-

sur-Mer

Brügge

Calais

Bonn

Dortmund

Düsseldorf

Kassel

Wuppertal

Köln

Aachen

Münster

Hamm

Essen

Bielefeld

Hannover

Braunschweig

Bremen

Halle

Magdeburg

Leipzig

Dresden

Chemnitz

Kiel

Lübeck

Szczecin

Gorzów

Wielkopolski

Poznañ

Lublin

Radom

Kielce

Koszalin

Gdansk/Danzig

Kaliningrad

Bydgoszcz

Århus

Malmö

Helsingborg

Kristianstad

Hässleholm

Halmstad

Växjö

Karlskrona

Kalmar

Antwerpen

Groningen

Enschede

Rotterdam

Eindhoven

Gent

Almere

Breda

Göteborg

Kungsbacka

Varberg

Borås

Jönköping

Ålborg

Elbl�g

Cuxhaven

S�upsk

Flensburg

Oldenburg

Bremerhaven

Bochum

Erfurt

Liège

Toruñ

Wismar

Potsdam

Wrze�nia

Emden

Osnabrück

Heming

EEZ

Frederikshavn

Hirtshals

Oskarshamm

Gießen

Odense

Maribo

Mörbylãnga

Lille

Hamburg

Berlin

Warsaw/Warschau

Brüssel

Amsterdam

Kopenhagen

Riga

Slagelse

Polen


Litauen

Lettland

Frankreich

Dänemark

Belgien

Niederlande

Schweden

Weissrussland

Ukraine

Luxemburg

Texel

Vlieland

TerschellingAmeland

Borkum

Öland

Bornholm

Lolland

Samsø

Rügen

Møn

Usedom

Falster

Als

Norderney

Juist

Baltrum

Mellrum

Scharhörn

Heligoland

12-mile limit

Gröde

Süderoog-Sand

Schiermonnikoog

Trischen

Neuwerk

LangeoogSpiekeroog

Pellworm

Amrum

Sylt

Föhr

Wangerooge

Fanø

Rømø

AErø

Langeland

Fehmarn

Hiddensee

Fyn

Darß

Zingst

Poel

GotlandsLän

Sjæl land

Fischland

80 x BARD VM (2010/2011)Tripile foundations

Offshore substation BARD 1 with accommodations

Offshore substation, connecting to the shore; BorWin alpha transpower Stromü-bertragungs GmbH

5 BARd Offshore 1

Offshore substation

6 x Repower 5M (2009)Jacket foundations

FINO 1

1 alpha ventus test fi eld

46

1

6 x Multibrid M5000Tripod foundations (2009)

Offshore substation alpha ventus

17 nordergründe18 Repower 5-MW-Turbines

45 Kaskasi46 MEG I47 notos48 Offshore north Sea Windpower delta nordsee I49 Offshore north Sea Windpower delta nordsee II50 Austerngrund51 deutsche Bucht52 OWP West53 Sea storm54 Sea storm II55 Sea Wind I

56 Sea Wind II57 Skua58 Uthland59 Veja Mate60 Sea Wind III61 Sea Wind IV62 Weiße Bank63 Witte Bank64 nSWP 4 65 nSWP 566 nSWP 667 nSWP 7 68 nordpassage

baltIc seaOPERATIOnAL1 Breitling / RostockLICEnSEd WInd FARMS 2 Arkona Becken Südost3 Baltic 14 Geofree 5 Kriegers Flak6 Ventotec Ost 2

WInd FARMS UndERGOInG LICEnSInG PROCEdURES 7 Arcadis Ost 18 Arcadis Ost 29 Beltsee10 Sky 200011 Baltic Power12 Baltic Eagle13 ArkonaSee West14 ArkonaSee Süd

39


Service

No Project name Operator/Developer Location number of WTGs

Total out-put with 3.6 MW turbines

Total output with 5 MW tur-bines

Distance to near-est coast [Km]

Water depth [m]

north sea

Operational1 alpha ventus DOTI (E.ON Climate & Renewables, EWE, Vattenfall New

Energy) Deutsches Offshore-TestfeldEEZ 12 – 60 43 30

2 Dollard Emden Enova 12 NM-Zone 1 5 0.01 3

3 Hooksiel Bard Engineering 12 NM-Zone 1 – 5 0.05

Licensed Wind Farms 4 Amrumbank West E.ON Climate & Renewables / Amrumbank West EEZ 80 288 400 35 21–25

5 Bard Offshore 1 Bard Engineering , SüdWestStrom Windpark & Co. KG, WV Energie

EEZ 80 – 400 87 39–41

6 Borkum Riffgrund I Plambeck Neue Energien , Projektgesellschaft PNE2 Offshore, Vattenfall und Dong

EEZ 77 277 385 34 23–29

7 Borkum Riffgrund West Energiekontor EEZ 80 288 400 40 30–35

8 Borkum West II Trianel Power Windpark Borkum EEZ 80 400 45 25–35

9 Butendiek SSE Renewables (Scottish and Southern Energy Renewables) EEZ 80 288 400 35 16–22

10 Dan Tysk Vattenfall / GEO mbH EEZ 80 288 400 70 23–31

11 Global Tech I Nordsee Windpower / Stadtwerke München/Wetfeet

EEZ 80 288 400 75 39–41

12 Gode Wind I Plambeck Neue Energien / Evelop EEZ 80 288 400 33 28–33

13 Gode Wind II Plambeck Neue Energien EEZ 80 288 400 33 28–33

14 He Dreiht EnBW Nordsee Offshore EEZ 80 288 400 85 39

15 Hochsee Windpark Nordsee EnBW Nordsee Offshore EEZ 80 288 400 75 39

16 Meerwind WindMW , Windland Energieerzeugungs EEZ 80 288 400 53 22–32

17 Nordergründe Energiekontor 12 NM-Zone 25 – 125 13 2–18

18 Nördlicher Grund Nördlicher Grund EEZ 80 288 400 86 23–40

19 Nordsee Ost RWE Innogy EEZ 80 288 400 30 19–24

20 Sandbank 24 Projekt (Sandbank 24 , Greenoak) EEZ 96 346 480 100 30–40

Summary 1.332 4.079 6.720

Wind Farms undergoing licensing procedures 21 Aiolos wpd Offshore EEZ 80 288 400 39

22 Albatros LCO Nature / Evelop EEZ 80 288 400 87 40

23 Aquamarin Bard Emden Eney EEZ 80 288 400 83 38

24 AreaC I SSE Renewables (Scottish and Southern Energy Renewables) EEZ 80 288 400 66 37

25 AreaC II SSE Renewables EEZ 80 288 400 66 37

26 AreaC III SSE Renewables EEZ 80 288 400 66 37

27 Bernstein Bard Building Manement EEZ 80 288 400

28 Bight Power I SSE Renewables EEZ 80 288 400 74

29 Bight Power II SSE Renewables EEZ 80 288 400 74

30 Borkum Riffgat Enova Energieanlen, EWE / Stadtwerke München (SWM) 12 NM-Zone 44 158 220 25 16–20

31 Borkum Riffgrund II Plambeck Neue Energien EEZ 80 288 400

32 Borkum Riffgrund West II Plambeck Neue Energien EEZ

33 Citrin Bard Service EEZ 80 288 400 111 41

34 Diamant Bard Schiffsbetrieb & Co. Nathalie KG EEZ 80 288 400 111 41

35 Innogy Nordsee 1 RWE Innogy EEZ 160 – 960 43 26–34

36 Euklas Bard Engineering EEZ 160 – 800 143 45

37 Gaia I–IV Norderland EEZ

38 Gode Wind II Plambeck Neue Energien EEZ 80 288 400 33

39 He Dreiht II EnBW Nordsee Offshore EEZ

40 Hochsee Testfeld Helgoland Hochsee Testfeld Helgoland EEZ 19 35

41 Horizont I Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. (UK) EEZ 80 288 400 125 38–42

No Project name Operator/Developer Location number of WTGs



Distance to near-est coast [Km]

Water depth [m]

42 Horizont II Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. (UK) EEZ 80 288 400 121 42

43 Horizont III Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. (UK) EEZ 66 237 330 131 41

44 Kaikas wpd Offshore EEZ 88 316 440

45 Kaskasi Essent (RWE Innogy Hannover ) EEZ 120 432 600

46 MEG I Multibrid Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH / Prokon Nord Energiesysteme

EEZ 80 288 400 45 28–33

47 Notos wpd Offshore EEZ 50 180 250

48 Offshore North Sea Wind-power Delta Nordsee I

Enova Offshore EEZ 48 172 240 43 29–35

49 Offshore North Sea Wind-power Delta Nordsee II

Offshore-Windpark Delta Nordsee / E.ON Climate & Renewables

EEZ 32 115 160 40 29–33

50 Austerngrund Global Wind Support / Bard Engineering EEZ 80 288 400 87 40

51 Deutsche Bucht Eolic Power / Bard Engineering EEZ 80 288 400 87 40

52 OWP West Norderland EEZ 80 288 400 58 30–35

53 Sea storm Norderland EEZ 80 288 400 110

54 Sea storm II Norderland EEZ 80 288 400 110

55 Sea Wind I Norderland EEZ

56 Sea Wind II Norderland EEZ

57 Skua OPG Projekt EEZ 80 288 400 85 38

58 Uthland GEO mbH EEZ 80 288 400 49 25

59 Veja Mate Cuxhaven Steel Construction OPG Projekt EEZ 80 – 400

60 Sea Wind III Arcadis Consult OPG Projekt EEZ 80 288 400 132 41

61 Sea Wind IV Arcadis Consult OPG Projekt EEZ 80 288 400 104 41

62 Weiße Bank Energiekontor EEZ 80 288

63 Witte Bank EEZ 171 615.6 855 120 45

64 NSWP 4 EEZ 81 291.6 405 205 43

65 NSWP 5 EEZ 85 306 425 158 43

66 NSWP 6 EEZ 84 302.4 420 190 43

67 NSWP 7 EEZ 95 342 475 190 43

68 Nordpasse Vattenfall Europe New Energy EEZ 80 288 400 75 24–35

BaLtIc sea

Operational1 Breitling / Rostock Wind-Projekt 12 NM-Zone 1 2.5 0.5 2

Licensed Wind Farms 2 Arkona Becken Südost E.ON 98 % / AWE-Arkona-Windpark-Entwicklungs EEZ 80 288 400 34 23–36

3 Baltic 1 EnBW Ostsee Offshore 12 NM-Zone 21 48.3 (2.3 MW)

- 15 16–19

4 Geofree GEO mbH 12 NM-Zone 5 18 25 20 21

5 Kriegers Flak EnBW Ostsee Offshore EEZ 80 329 400 32 29–42

6 Ventotec Ost 2 Arcadis Consult EEZ 80 288 400 40 40

Summary 267 973.8 1.225

Wind Farms undergoing licensing procedures 7 Arcadis Ost 1 Arcadis Consult 12 NM-Zone 70 252 350 17 40

8 Arcadis Ost 2 Arcadis Consult 12 NM-Zone 25 90 125 39 35

9 Beltsee Plambeck Neue Energien EEZ 76 274 380 14 23–26

10 Beta Baltic GEO mbH / E.ON Energy Projects 51 % 12 NM-Zone 50 180 250 20 21

11 Baltic Power EEZ

12 Baltic Ele SSE Renewables (Scottish and Southern Energy Renewables) EEZ 80 30 41–44

13 ArkonaSee West EEZ

14 ArkonaSee Süd EEZ 80

MW = megawatts WTG = wind turbine generator 12 NM zone = 12 nautical mile zone (coastal seas) om Germany licensed by German stateseeZ = German Exclusive Economic Zone (from 12 to 200 nautical miles from the coast); in Germany licensed: German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrografi e, BSH)

* After the WAB OFFSHORE Wind Energy magazine went to press, the German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency announced that it had granted licensing in the beginning of September 2009

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no Project name Operator/developer Location number of WTGs



distance to near-est coast [Km]

Water depth [m]

nOrth sea

Operational1 alpha ventus DOTI (E.ON Climate & Renewables, EWE, Vattenfall New

Energy) Deutsches Offshore-TestfeldEEZ 12 – 30 43 30

2 dollard Emden Enova 12 NM-Zone 1 5 0.01 3

3 hooksiel Bard Engineering 12 NM-Zone 1 – 5 0.05

Licensed Wind Farms 4 Amrumbank West E.ON Climate & Renewables / Amrumbank West EEZ 80 288 400 35 21–25

5 Bard Offshore 1 Bard Engineering , SüdWestStrom Windpark & Co. KG, WV Energie

EEZ 80 – 400 87 39–41

6 Borkum Riffgrund I Plambeck Neue Energien , Projektgesellschaft PNE2 Offshore, Vattenfall und Dong

EEZ 77 277 385 34 23–29

7 Borkum Riffgrund West Energiekontor EEZ 80 288 400 40 30–35

8 Borkum West II Trianel Power Windpark Borkum EEZ 80 400 45 25–35

9 Butendiek SSE Renewables (Scottish and Southern Energy Renewables) EEZ 80 288 400 35 16–22

10 dan Tysk Vattenfall / GEO mbH EEZ 80 288 400 70 23–31

11 Global Tech I Nordsee Windpower / Stadtwerke München/Wetfeet

EEZ 80 288 400 75 39–41

12 Gode Wind I Plambeck Neue Energien / Evelop EEZ 80 288 400 33 28–33

13 Gode Wind II Plambeck Neue Energien EEZ 80 288 400 33 28–33

14 he dreiht EnBW Nordsee Offshore EEZ 80 288 400 85 39

15 hochsee Windpark nordsee EnBW Nordsee Offshore EEZ 80 288 400 75 39

16 Meerwind WindMW , Windland Energieerzeugungs EEZ 80 288 400 53 22–32

17 nordergründe Energiekontor 12 NM-Zone 25 – 125 13 2–18

18 nördlicher Grund Nördlicher Grund EEZ 80 288 400 86 23–40

19 nordsee Ost RWE Innogy EEZ 80 288 400 30 19–24

20 Sandbank 24 Projekt (Sandbank 24 , Greenoak) EEZ 96 346 480 100 30–40

Summary 1.332 4.079 6.690

Wind Farms undergoing licensing procedures 21 Aiolos wpd Offshore EEZ 80 288 400 39

22 Albatros LCO Nature / Evelop EEZ 80 288 400 87 40

23 Aquamarin Bard Emden Eney EEZ 80 288 400 83 38

24 AreaC I SSE Renewables (Scottish and Southern Energy Renewables) EEZ 80 288 400 66 37

25 AreaC II SSE Renewables EEZ 80 288 400 66 37

26 AreaC III SSE Renewables EEZ 80 288 400 66 37

27 Bernstein Bard Building Manement EEZ 80 288 400

28 Bight Power I SSE Renewables EEZ 80 288 400 74

29 Bight Power II SSE Renewables EEZ 80 288 400 74

30 Borkum Riffgat Enova Energieanlen, EWE / Stadtwerke München (SWM) 12 NM-Zone 44 158 220 25 16–20

31 Borkum Riffgrund II Plambeck Neue Energien EEZ 80 288 400

32 Borkum Riffgrund West II Plambeck Neue Energien EEZ

33 Citrin Bard Service EEZ 80 288 400 111 41

34 diamant Bard Schiffsbetrieb & Co. Nathalie KG EEZ 80 288 400 111 41

35 Innogy nordsee 1 RWE Innogy EEZ 160 – 960 43 26–34

36 Euklas Bard Engineering EEZ 160 – 800 143 45

37 Gaia I–IV Norderland EEZ

38 Gode Wind II Plambeck Neue Energien EEZ 80 288 400 33

39 he dreiht II EnBW Nordsee Offshore EEZ

40 hochsee Testfeld helgoland Hochsee Testfeld Helgoland EEZ 19 35

41 horizont I Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. (UK) EEZ 80 288 400 125 38–42

no Project name Operator/developer Location number of WTGs




Water depth [m]

42 horizont II Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. (UK) EEZ 80 288 400 121 42

43 horizont III Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. (UK) EEZ 66 237 330 131 41

44 Kaikas wpd Offshore EEZ 88 316 440

45 Kaskasi Essent (RWE Innogy Hannover ) EEZ 120 432 600

46 MEG I Multibrid Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH / Prokon Nord Energiesysteme

EEZ 80 288 400 45 28–33

47 notos wpd Offshore EEZ 50 180 250

48 Offshore north Sea Wind-power delta nordsee I

Enova Offshore EEZ 48 172 240 43 29–35

49 Offshore north Sea Wind-power delta nordsee II

Offshore-Windpark Delta Nordsee / E.ON Climate & Renewables

EEZ 32 115 160 40 29–33

50 Austerngrund Global Wind Support / Bard Engineering EEZ 80 288 400 87 40

51 deutsche Bucht Eolic Power / Bard Engineering EEZ 80 288 400 87 40

52 OWP West Norderland EEZ 80 288 400 58 30–35

53 Sea storm Norderland EEZ 80 288 400 110

54 Sea storm II Norderland EEZ 80 288 400 110

55 Sea Wind I Norderland EEZ

56 Sea Wind II Norderland EEZ

57 Skua OPG Projekt EEZ 80 288 400 85 38

58 Uthland GEO mbH EEZ 80 288 400 49 25

59 Veja Mate Cuxhaven Steel Construction OPG Projekt EEZ 80 – 400

60 Sea Wind III Arcadis Consult OPG Projekt EEZ 80 288 400 132 41

61 Sea Wind IV Arcadis Consult OPG Projekt EEZ 80 288 400 104 41

62 Weiße Bank Energiekontor EEZ 80 288

63 Witte Bank EEZ 171 615.6 855 120 45

64 nSWP 4 EEZ 81 291.6 405 205 43

65 nSWP 5 EEZ 85 306 425 158 43

66 nSWP 6 EEZ 84 302.4 420 190 43

67 nSWP 7 EEZ 95 342 475 190 43

68 nordpasse Vattenfall Europe New Energy EEZ 80 288 400 75 24–35

baltIc sea

Operational1 Breitling / Rostock Wind-Projekt 12 NM-Zone 1 2.5 0.5 2

Licensed Wind Farms 2 Arkona Becken Südost E.ON 98 % / AWE-Arkona-Windpark-Entwicklungs EEZ 80 288 400 34 23–36

3 Baltic 1 EnBW Ostsee Offshore 12 NM-Zone 21 48.3 (2.3 MW)

- 15 16–19

4 Geofree GEO mbH 12 NM-Zone 5 18 25 20 21

5 Kriegers Flak EnBW Ostsee Offshore EEZ 80 329 400 32 29–42

6 Ventotec Ost 2 Arcadis Consult EEZ 80 288 400 40 40

Summary 267 973.8 1.225

Wind Farms undergoing licensing procedures 7 Arcadis Ost 1 Arcadis Consult 12 NM-Zone 70 252 350 17 40

8 Arcadis Ost 2 Arcadis Consult 12 NM-Zone 25 90 125 39 35

9 Beltsee Plambeck Neue Energien EEZ 76 274 380 14 23–26

10 Beta Baltic GEO mbH / E.ON Energy Projects 51 % 12 NM-Zone 50 180 250 20 21

11 Baltic Power EEZ

12 Baltic Ele SSE Renewables (Scottish and Southern Energy Renewables) EEZ 80 30 41–44

13 ArkonaSee West EEZ

14 ArkonaSee Süd EEZ 80

MW = megawatts Wtg = wind turbine generator 12 nM zone = 12 nautical mile zone (coastal seas) om Germany licensed by German stateseeZ = German Exclusive Economic Zone (from 12 to 200 nautical miles from the coast); in Germany licensed: German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrografi e, BSH)

* After the WAB OFFSHORE Wind Energy magazine went to press, the German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency announced that it had granted licensing in the beginning of September 2009

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Denmark

Germany

Netherlands

BelgiumFrance

Spanien

Great Britain

Ireland

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North Hoyle


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Horns Rev 1

Horns Rev 2

Esbjerg

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29

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9

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Lake VänernS4

36

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Gunfl eet Sands5

4

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Denmark

Germany

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BelgiumFrance

Spanien

Great Britain

Ireland

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Gunfl eet Sands

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Denmark

Germany

Netherlands

BelgiumFrance

Spanien

Great Britain

Ireland

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24

15

26

118

35

42

256

6

32

28

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B

B

Scroby Sands

Lynn &Inner Dowsing

Firth of Forth

Dogger Bank

Hornsea

Norfolk


Bristol Channel

Irish Sea

Lynn &Inner Dowsing

Sweden

Denmark

Germany

Netherlands

BelgiumFrance

Spanien

Great Britain

Ireland

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12

8 7

373839

9

17

44

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North Hoyle

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Denmark

Germany

Netherlands

BelgiumFrance

Spanien

Great Britain

Ireland

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Nysted

Barrow

North Hoyle


Robin Rigg

Horns Rev 1

Horns Rev 2

Esbjerg

Bremerhaven

Cuxhaven


Yttre Stengrund

Middelgrunden

Samsø Lillgrund

Egmond aan Zee



Arklow Bank

Baltic Sea

north Sea


EEZFINO 3


FINO 1

nL1nL2

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B2B1

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Denmark

Germany

Netherlands

BelgiumFrance

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Great Britain

Ireland

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Denmark

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Netherlands

BelgiumFrance

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Great Britain

Ireland

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15

26

118

35

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Scroby Sands

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Firth of Forth

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Hornsea

Norfolk


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Irish Sea

Lynn &Inner Dowsing

Sweden

Denmark

Germany

Netherlands

BelgiumFrance

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Ireland

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8 7

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9

17

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North Hoyle

Burbo Bank

Rhyl Flats

4740

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Borkum West D

Eldepasco B

Borkum Riffgrund D

Butendiek D

Thornton Bank B

Q7 NL

Horns Rev DK

Thanet GB

Distance to coast (km)

Capacity factor (%)

strong winds also in coastal areas The proximity to the coastline is not a critical factor for the profitability of an off-shore wind park, as demonstrate comparisons of coastal distances to annual full load hours. This is, however, where you can clearly see the advantage of offshore wind power. With about 40%, these plants boast twice the capacity factor of plants in the german inland.

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Country no Project name Operator/developer construc-tion start

Output per WTG [MW]

number of WTG

Total output of wind-farm


Water depth

[m]

OperationalBELGIUM

B 1 Thornton Bank Phase 1 C-POWER / RWE Innogy, EdF, DEME, SOCOFE, SRIW, NUMA (33 %)

2009 5 6 30 27 25

BRITAInUK 1 Barrow Barrow Offshorewind Ltd..

(50 % Centrica und 50 % Dong Energy)2006 3 30 90 7 15–20

UK 2 Beatrice Talisman Energy (UK) und Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE)

2006/2007 5 2 10 25 45

UK 3 Burbo Bank Dong Energy 2007 3.6 25 90 10 8

UK 4 Gunfl eet Sands Dong Energy 2009 3.6 30 108

UK 5 Kentish Flats Elsam/Vattenfall 2005 3 30 90 9 5

UK 6 Lynn & Inner dowsing AMEC / Centrica Renewable Energy 2008 3.6 54 194 5 6–11

UK 7 north hoyle RWE npower renewables 2003 2 30 60 8 12

UK 8 Rhyl Flats RWE Innogy 2003 3.6 25 90 8 6–15

UK 9 Robin Rigg E.ON UK 2008 3 60 180 0–9

UK 10 Scroby Sands E.ON UK 2005 2 30 60 2 4–8

dEnMARKDK 1 horns Rev I Dong Energy (40 %); Vattenfall (60 %) 2002 2 80 160 14 6–14

DK 2 horns Rev II Dong Energy / Novo Nordisk AS 2008 2.3 91 200 27 9–18

DK 3 Middelgrunden Middelgrunden Wind Turbine Cooperative; E2 2001 2 20 40 2 4–8

DK 4 nysted Dong Energy (80 %); E.ON Schweden (20 %) 2003 2.3 72 165 10 6–9.5

DK 5 Samsø Citizens windfarm 2002 2.3 10 23 4 11–18

IRELAndIRL 1 Arklow Bank Airtricity / GE Energy 2003 3.6 7 25 10 2–5

nEThERLAndNL 1 Egmond aan zee Nuon, Shell 2006 3 36 108 10 18–20

NL 2 Princess Amalia Windfarm (Q7)

Econcern, Eneco / E-Connection 2007 2 60 120 23 20–25

nORWAy

N 1 hywind Siemens wind power, Technip, Nexans, Haugaland Kraft

2009 2.3 1 2.3 10 100

SWEdEnS 1 Lillgrund Vattenfall AB, Nordic Generation 2007 2.3 48 110 7 10

S 2 Utgrunden 2000 1.5 7 10 12 7–10

S 3 yttre Stengrund Vindkompaniet 2001 2 5 10 5 6–10

S 4 Lake Vänern Windpark Windpark Vänern Kraft AB 2009 3 10 30 4 5–7

Summary 769 2.005.3

Projects being implemented in 2010/2011

BELGIUMB 2 Belwind / Bligh Bank Evelop / Belwind 2010 3 110 330 46 20–35

B 1 Thornton Bank Phase 2 C-POWER, RWE Innogy, EdF, DEME, SOCOFE, SRIW, NUMA 5 53 300 27 25

BRITAInUK 11 Greater Gabbard Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds (GGOWL) –

Airticity (50 %) / Fluor (50 %)2010 3.6 140 504 25

UK 12 Gwynt y Mor RWE innogy / RWE npower renewables 2010 3–6 250 750

UK 13 London Array London Array (E.ON UK, Dong) 2011 271 1.000 20 23

UK 14 Ormonde Eclipse Energy / Vattenfall 2010 5 30 150

UK 15 Sheringham Shoal Scira Offshore Energy, Evelop, Statoil Hydro 2011 3.6 88 315 17

UK 16 Thanet Thanet Offshore Wind / Vattenfall 2010 3 100 300 11 20–25

UK 17 Walney Dong 2010 216 450 14

dEnMARKDK 6 Roedsand II (nysted II) E.ON Vind (E.ON Schweden) 2010 2.3 90 207 3 5–12

FRAnCEF 1 Côte d‘Albâtre Prokon Nord Energiesysteme / ENERTR Etablissement

France2011 5 21 105 22 23

Further European project developments after 2011

BELGIUMB 3 Bank zonder naam Eldepasco 2011 36 216 35

B 4 Blueh4Power1 Electrabel/Jan de Nul 2012 60

B 5 Blueh4Power2 Electrabel/Jan de Nul 2012

B 6 Congster Eneco/Bard Engineering

BRITAInUK 18 Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Ltd. / Vattenfall 5 23 115 4

UK 19 Argyll Array Scottish Power Renewables 300 1.500

UK 20 Atlantic Array Farm Energy 370 1.500 21 40

UK 21 Beatrice Ithaca Energy 1.000

UK 22 Bell Rock Airtricity Holdings (UK) Ltd.., Fluor Ltd.. 700

UK 23 Cirrus Shell Flat Array

UK 24 Cromer 108

UK 25 docking Shoal Centrica Renewable Energy 2011 3–7 72–166 500 20 3.6–22

UK 26 dudgeon Warwick Energy 2011 230 - 300

UK 27 Gunfl eet Sands 2 2010 18 64

UK 28 humber Gateway E.ON UK 2011 42–83 200 - 300

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UK 29 Inch Cape RWE npower Renewables Ltd.., SeaEnergy Renewables Ltd. 905

UK 30 Islay Airtricity Holdings (UK) Ltd.. 680

UK 31 Kintyre Airtricity Holdings (UK) Ltd.. 378

UK 32 *Lincs Centrica Renewable Energy 2010 3.6 75 270 8 10–15

UK 33 neart na Gaoithe Mainstream Renewables Ltd.. 360

UK 34 norfolk Offshore Wind Farm EDF Energy 30 108 7

UK 35 Race Bank Centrica Renewable Energy 2014 3–7 125 500 20 22

UK 36 Scaerweather Sands E.ON UK (50 %), Dong (50 %) 3.6 30 108 5

UK 37 Shell Flats 1 (Cirrus Array) (Cirrus Shell Flat Array)

Celt Power, Shell Wind Energy, Dong 90 270 20

UK 38 Shell Flats 2

UK 39 Shell Flats 3

UK 40 Solway Firth E.ON Climate & Renewables UK 300

UK 41 Teesside EDF Energy 2011 30 90

UK 42 Triton Knoll 286 900 - 1200

UK 43 Tunes Plateau B9 Energy Offshore Developments, Powergen Re-newables Developments, Renewable Energy Systems

3–5 85 150 - 250

5 12

UK 44 West of duddon Sands Dong (33,3 %) / Shell Wind (33,3 %) / Celt Power (33,3 %) (Celt Power = Joint venture Scottish Power and Eurus)

2–3.6 140 500 13

UK 45 Westermost Rough Total energy/Dong 2013 240 8

UK 46 Western Iles Blue H fl oating 90 400

UK 47 Wigtown Bay Dong Wind (UK) Ltd. 280

* After the publication of this magazine, the start for the preparation of “Lincs” in 2010 was announced.


Output per WTG [MW]

number of WTG



Water depth [m]

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Output per WTG [MW]

number of WTG



Water depth

[m]

OperationalBELGIUM

B 1 Thornton Bank Phase 1 C-POWER / RWE Innogy, EdF, DEME, SOCOFE, SRIW, NUMA (33 %)

2009 5 6 30 27 25

BRITAInUK 1 Barrow Barrow Offshorewind Ltd..

(50 % Centrica und 50 % Dong Energy)2006 3 30 90 7 15–20

UK 2 Beatrice Talisman Energy (UK) und Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE)

2006/2007 5 2 10 25 45

UK 3 Burbo Bank Dong Energy 2007 3.6 25 90 10 8

UK 4 Gunfl eet Sands Dong Energy 2009 3.6 30 108

UK 5 Kentish Flats Elsam/Vattenfall 2005 3 30 90 9 5

UK 6 Lynn & Inner dowsing AMEC / Centrica Renewable Energy 2008 3.6 54 194 5 6–11

UK 7 north hoyle RWE npower renewables 2003 2 30 60 8 12

UK 8 Rhyl Flats RWE Innogy 2003 3.6 25 90 8 6–15

UK 9 Robin Rigg E.ON UK 2008 3 60 180 0–9

UK 10 Scroby Sands E.ON UK 2005 2 30 60 2 4–8

dEnMARKDK 1 horns Rev I Dong Energy (40 %); Vattenfall (60 %) 2002 2 80 160 14 6–14

DK 2 horns Rev II Dong Energy / Novo Nordisk AS 2008 2.3 91 200 27 9–18

DK 3 Middelgrunden Middelgrunden Wind Turbine Cooperative; E2 2001 2 20 40 2 4–8

DK 4 nysted Dong Energy (80 %); E.ON Schweden (20 %) 2003 2.3 72 165 10 6–9.5

DK 5 Samsø Citizens windfarm 2002 2.3 10 23 4 11–18

IRELAndIRL 1 Arklow Bank Airtricity / GE Energy 2003 3.6 7 25 10 2–5

nEThERLAndNL 1 Egmond aan zee Nuon, Shell 2006 3 36 108 10 18–20

NL 2 Princess Amalia Windfarm (Q7)

Econcern, Eneco / E-Connection 2007 2 60 120 23 20–25

nORWAy

N 1 hywind Siemens wind power, Technip, Nexans, Haugaland Kraft

2009 2.3 1 2.3 10 100

SWEdEnS 1 Lillgrund Vattenfall AB, Nordic Generation 2007 2.3 48 110 7 10

S 2 Utgrunden 2000 1.5 7 10 12 7–10

S 3 yttre Stengrund Vindkompaniet 2001 2 5 10 5 6–10

S 4 Lake Vänern Windpark Windpark Vänern Kraft AB 2009 3 10 30 4 5–7

Summary 769 2.005.3

Projects being implemented in 2010/2011

BELGIUMB 2 Belwind / Bligh Bank Evelop / Belwind 2010 3 110 330 46 20–35

B 1 Thornton Bank Phase 2 C-POWER, RWE Innogy, EdF, DEME, SOCOFE, SRIW, NUMA 5 53 300 27 25

BRITAInUK 11 Greater Gabbard Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds (GGOWL) –

Airticity (50 %) / Fluor (50 %)2010 3.6 140 504 25

UK 12 Gwynt y Mor RWE innogy / RWE npower renewables 2010 3–6 250 750

UK 13 London Array London Array (E.ON UK, Dong) 2011 271 1.000 20 23

UK 14 Ormonde Eclipse Energy / Vattenfall 2010 5 30 150

UK 15 Sheringham Shoal Scira Offshore Energy, Evelop, Statoil Hydro 2011 3.6 88 315 17

UK 16 Thanet Thanet Offshore Wind / Vattenfall 2010 3 100 300 11 20–25

UK 17 Walney Dong 2010 216 450 14

dEnMARKDK 6 Roedsand II (nysted II) E.ON Vind (E.ON Schweden) 2010 2.3 90 207 3 5–12

FRAnCEF 1 Côte d‘Albâtre Prokon Nord Energiesysteme / ENERTR Etablissement

France2011 5 21 105 22 23

Further European project developments after 2011

BELGIUMB 3 Bank zonder naam Eldepasco 2011 36 216 35

B 4 Blueh4Power1 Electrabel/Jan de Nul 2012 60

B 5 Blueh4Power2 Electrabel/Jan de Nul 2012

B 6 Congster Eneco/Bard Engineering

BRITAInUK 18 Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Ltd. / Vattenfall 5 23 115 4

UK 19 Argyll Array Scottish Power Renewables 300 1.500

UK 20 Atlantic Array Farm Energy 370 1.500 21 40

UK 21 Beatrice Ithaca Energy 1.000

UK 22 Bell Rock Airtricity Holdings (UK) Ltd.., Fluor Ltd.. 700

UK 23 Cirrus Shell Flat Array

UK 24 Cromer 108

UK 25 docking Shoal Centrica Renewable Energy 2011 3–7 72–166 500 20 3.6–22

UK 26 dudgeon Warwick Energy 2011 230 - 300

UK 27 Gunfl eet Sands 2 2010 18 64

UK 28 humber Gateway E.ON UK 2011 42–83 200 - 300

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UK 29 Inch Cape RWE npower Renewables Ltd.., SeaEnergy Renewables Ltd. 905

UK 30 Islay Airtricity Holdings (UK) Ltd.. 680

UK 31 Kintyre Airtricity Holdings (UK) Ltd.. 378

UK 32 *Lincs Centrica Renewable Energy 2010 3.6 75 270 8 10–15

UK 33 neart na Gaoithe Mainstream Renewables Ltd.. 360

UK 34 norfolk Offshore Wind Farm EDF Energy 30 108 7

UK 35 Race Bank Centrica Renewable Energy 2014 3–7 125 500 20 22

UK 36 Scaerweather Sands E.ON UK (50 %), Dong (50 %) 3.6 30 108 5

UK 37 Shell Flats 1 (Cirrus Array) (Cirrus Shell Flat Array)

Celt Power, Shell Wind Energy, Dong 90 270 20

UK 38 Shell Flats 2

UK 39 Shell Flats 3

UK 40 Solway Firth E.ON Climate & Renewables UK 300

UK 41 Teesside EDF Energy 2011 30 90

UK 42 Triton Knoll 286 900 - 1200

UK 43 Tunes Plateau B9 Energy Offshore Developments, Powergen Re-newables Developments, Renewable Energy Systems

3–5 85 150 - 250

5 12

UK 44 West of duddon Sands Dong (33,3 %) / Shell Wind (33,3 %) / Celt Power (33,3 %) (Celt Power = Joint venture Scottish Power and Eurus)

2–3.6 140 500 13

UK 45 Westermost Rough Total energy/Dong 2013 240 8

UK 46 Western Iles Blue H fl oating 90 400

UK 47 Wigtown Bay Dong Wind (UK) Ltd. 280

* After the publication of this magazine, the start for the preparation of “Lincs” in 2010 was announced.


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number of WTG



Water depth [m]

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serVice

F 3 Ile de Groix 100

F 4 Parc èolien du Libron Shell Wind Energy / La compnie du vent 3 34 102 6

F 5 Saint Brieuc POWEO 2012 12 -15 150

F 6 Vent d’ouest Vent d’ouest 2012 260

F 7 Calvados WPD offshore France SAS 50 250

F 8 Fecamps WPD offshore France SAS 300

F 9 Vendee WPD offshore France SAS 600

IRELAndIRL 2 Arklow Bank Phase 2 Airtricity /Acciona Energia (Spain) 495

IRL 3 Arklow Bank Phase 3 263

IRL 4 Blackwater Bank Harland & Wolff Licences

IRL 5 Blackwater Bank Wind Farm Development

IRL 6 Codling & Greater Codling Bank Harland & Wolff Licences / natural power 220 660

IRL 7 dundalk Bay Sure Partners

IRL 8 Kish Bank / Bray Bank Kish Consortium 250

ITALyI 1 San Michele Effeventi 54 162 4 - 8 12–20

I 2 Tricase Blue H Technologies BV / Blue H Skysaver 25 92 20 100 -120

I 3 Gargano nord wpd offshore 680

I 4 Gargano Süd wpd offshore 855

dEnMARKDK 7 djursland/Anholt (Kattegat) announced by Danish Government since 08.08 2012 100 - 150 400

DK 8 Jammerbugten 800

DK 9 Kriegers Flak III wpd offshore 91 455 25

DK 10 Rinkoeping Fjord 1.000

DK 11 Roenland II und III

DK 12 Rönne Banke Energi Øst 70 7

DK 13 Store Middelgrund 200

ESTLAnd

EST 1 dagö OÜ Nelja Energia 3–6 200

EST 2 hiiumaa Hiiumaa Offshore Tuulepark OÜ (LLC) (Norwegian company Vardar Eurus AS (45 %), Estonian company Freenergy AS (45 %), Estonian company Nelja Energia OÜ (LLC) (10 %) )

200 600– 1000

FInLAnd

FIN 1 Kokkola 200

FIN 2 Korsnäs wpd offshore 600

FIN 3 Suurhiekka wpd offshore 400

FIN 4 Finngrunden wpd offshore 300 1.500

FRAnCEF 2 deux Cotes La compnie du vent 2012 5 141 705 14


Output per WTG [MW]

number of WTG



Water depth [m]


Output per WTG [MW]

number of WTG



Water depth [m]


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F 3 Ile de Groix 100

F 4 Parc èolien du Libron Shell Wind Energy / La compnie du vent 3 34 102 6

F 5 Saint Brieuc POWEO 2012 12 -15 150

F 6 Vent d’ouest Vent d’ouest 2012 260

F 7 Calvados WPD offshore France SAS 50 250

F 8 Fecamps WPD offshore France SAS 300

F 9 Vendee WPD offshore France SAS 600

IRELAndIRL 2 Arklow Bank Phase 2 Airtricity /Acciona Energia (Spain) 495

IRL 3 Arklow Bank Phase 3 263

IRL 4 Blackwater Bank Harland & Wolff Licences

IRL 5 Blackwater Bank Wind Farm Development

IRL 6 Codling & Greater Codling Bank Harland & Wolff Licences / natural power 220 660

IRL 7 dundalk Bay Sure Partners

IRL 8 Kish Bank / Bray Bank Kish Consortium 250

ITALyI 1 San Michele Effeventi 54 162 4 - 8 12–20

I 2 Tricase Blue H Technologies BV / Blue H Skysaver 25 92 20 100 -120

I 3 Gargano nord wpd offshore 680

I 4 Gargano Süd wpd offshore 855

dEnMARKDK 7 djursland/Anholt (Kattegat) announced by Danish Government since 08.08 2012 100 - 150 400

DK 8 Jammerbugten 800

DK 9 Kriegers Flak III wpd offshore 91 455 25

DK 10 Rinkoeping Fjord 1.000

DK 11 Roenland II und III

DK 12 Rönne Banke Energi Øst 70 7

DK 13 Store Middelgrund 200

ESTLAnd

EST 1 dagö OÜ Nelja Energia 3–6 200

EST 2 hiiumaa Hiiumaa Offshore Tuulepark OÜ (LLC) (Norwegian company Vardar Eurus AS (45 %), Estonian company Freenergy AS (45 %), Estonian company Nelja Energia OÜ (LLC) (10 %) )

200 600– 1000

FInLAnd

FIN 1 Kokkola 200

FIN 2 Korsnäs wpd offshore 600

FIN 3 Suurhiekka wpd offshore 400

FIN 4 Finngrunden wpd offshore 300 1.500

FRAnCEF 2 deux Cotes La compnie du vent 2012 5 141 705 14


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number of WTG



Water depth [m]


Output per WTG [MW]

number of WTG



Water depth [m]

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serVice

NL 53 Q4 WP E-Connection 40 120 23

NL 54 Q7 West

NL 55 Riffground

NL 56 Rijnveld noord

NL 57 Rijnveld West

NL 58 Rijnveld zuid

NL 59 Ruyter Oost

NL 60 Ruyter West

NL 61 Schaar

NL 62 Scheveningen 2



NL 65 Scheveningen Buiten Evelop 2011 89 320 30.0 19–30

NL 66 Thetys Arcads 55 198 24.0 20-25

NL 67 Tromp RWE Innogy / RWE Energy Netherland 2012 1.150 64 26

NL 68 Tromp Binnen RWE Offshore Wind Nederland B.V. 2012 59 295 75 26

NL 69 Tromp Oost

NL 70 Tromp West

NL 71 West Rijn Airtricity/Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) 72 260 40

NL 72 Wijk aan zee

NL 73 Windned noord

NL 74 Windned zuid

nEThERLAndNL 3 Bard Offshore nL 1 Bard Engineering 5 80 400

NL 4 Breevertien Airtricity

NL 5 Breevertien II Airtricity/Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) 2012 97 350 60

NL 6 Brown Ridge Oost E-Connection 94 282 74

NL 7 Bruine Bank

NL 8 Callantsoog noord Eneco/Bard Engineering 30

NL 9 Callantsoog Oost

NL 10 Callantsoog West

NL 11 Callantsoog zuid

NL 12 den haag I

NL 13 den haag II WEOM 85 255 42 24–35

NL 14 den haag III

NL 15 den haag noord

NL 16 den helder I Airtricity 78 468 70

NL 17 den helder II

NL 18 den helder III

NL 19 den helder IV

NL 20 den helder noord

NL 21 den helder zuid

NL 22 EP Offshore nL 1 Eolic Power /Bard Engineering 78 400 56

NL 23 Eurogeul noord

NL 24 Favourius

NL 25 GWS Offshore nL1 Global Wind Support /Bard Engineering 80 400 56

NL 26 helder

NL 27 helmveld Evelop Netherlands B.V. 137 493 34

NL 28 hoek van holland 2


NL 30 hopper

NL 31 horiwind

NL 32 horizon

NL 33 Ijmuiden WEOM 51 153 22 20–26

NL 34 Ijmuiden1

NL 35 Ijmuiden2

NL 36 Katwijk WEOM 114 342 24 20–28

NL 37 Katwijk Buiten Evelop 87 313 24 19–34

NL 38 Maas West Buiten

NL 39 noord hinder

NL 40 noord hinder 1


NL 42 Okeanos noord

NL 43 Oost Friesland zone 1




NL 47 Osters Bank 1

NL 48 Osters Bank 2

NL 49 Osters Bank 3

NL 50 P12-WP E-Connection 47 141 31 25

NL 51 P15-WP

NL 52 Q10


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NL 53 Q4 WP E-Connection 40 120 23

NL 54 Q7 West

NL 55 Riffground

NL 56 Rijnveld noord

NL 57 Rijnveld West

NL 58 Rijnveld zuid

NL 59 Ruyter Oost

NL 60 Ruyter West

NL 61 Schaar




NL 65 Scheveningen Buiten Evelop 2011 89 320 30.0 19–30

NL 66 Thetys Arcads 55 198 24.0 20-25

NL 67 Tromp RWE Innogy / RWE Energy Netherland 2012 1.150 64 26

NL 68 Tromp Binnen RWE Offshore Wind Nederland B.V. 2012 59 295 75 26

NL 69 Tromp Oost

NL 70 Tromp West

NL 71 West Rijn Airtricity/Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) 72 260 40

NL 72 Wijk aan zee

NL 73 Windned noord

NL 74 Windned zuid

nEThERLAndNL 3 Bard Offshore nL 1 Bard Engineering 5 80 400

NL 4 Breevertien Airtricity

NL 5 Breevertien II Airtricity/Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) 2012 97 350 60

NL 6 Brown Ridge Oost E-Connection 94 282 74

NL 7 Bruine Bank

NL 8 Callantsoog noord Eneco/Bard Engineering 30

NL 9 Callantsoog Oost

NL 10 Callantsoog West

NL 11 Callantsoog zuid

NL 12 den haag I

NL 13 den haag II WEOM 85 255 42 24–35

NL 14 den haag III

NL 15 den haag noord

NL 16 den helder I Airtricity 78 468 70

NL 17 den helder II

NL 18 den helder III

NL 19 den helder IV

NL 20 den helder noord

NL 21 den helder zuid

NL 22 EP Offshore nL 1 Eolic Power /Bard Engineering 78 400 56

NL 23 Eurogeul noord

NL 24 Favourius

NL 25 GWS Offshore nL1 Global Wind Support /Bard Engineering 80 400 56

NL 26 helder

NL 27 helmveld Evelop Netherlands B.V. 137 493 34



NL 30 hopper

NL 31 horiwind

NL 32 horizon

NL 33 Ijmuiden WEOM 51 153 22 20–26

NL 34 Ijmuiden1

NL 35 Ijmuiden2

NL 36 Katwijk WEOM 114 342 24 20–28

NL 37 Katwijk Buiten Evelop 87 313 24 19–34

NL 38 Maas West Buiten

NL 39 noord hinder



NL 42 Okeanos noord





NL 47 Osters Bank 1

NL 48 Osters Bank 2

NL 49 Osters Bank 3

NL 50 P12-WP E-Connection 47 141 31 25

NL 51 P15-WP

NL 52 Q10


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serVice

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N 2 havsul I Havsul / Tafjord Kraft Produksjon 350 4–30

N 3 havsul II Havsul / Tafjord Kraft Produksjon 801

N 4 havsul III Havsul / Tafjord Kraft Produksjon 450

N 5 hywind Statiol Hydro / Siemens - fl oating foundation 2009 2.3 1 - 56 100–200

N 6 Sway Prototype StatoilHydro(17 %), Lyse Energi (12 %), Norwind (3 %), Statkraft (3 %), Inocean (25 %), E.Borgen (23 %), Gyldenl ve Eiendom (9 %), Bergen Group (2 %), Others (6 %)

2011 5 1 5 20 100–200

N 7 Sway Phase 1 StatoilHydro (17 %)), Lyse Energi (12 %)), Norwind (3 %), Statkraft (3 %), Inocean (25 %), E.Borgen (23 %), Gyldenl ve Eiendom (9 %), Bergen Group (2 %), Others (6 %)

2012–2015 5 5 25 20 100–200

N 8 Sway Phase 2 StatoilHydro (17 %), Lyse Energi (12 %), Norwind (3 %), Statkraft (3 %), Inocean (25 %), E.Borgen (23 %), Gyldenl ve Eiendom (9 %), Bergen Group (2 %), Others (6 %)

5 60 300 40 100–200

N 9 Sørlig nordsjøen/Aegir OWEC / OCEANwind 2014 5.0 200 1.000 130 45–60

SPAIn

E 1 Cadiz Acciona 1.000 11

E 2 Cape Trafalgar Energía Hidroeléctrica de Navarra (EHN) 500 600– 1000

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SWEdEnS 4 Finngrunden Finngrunden Offshore AB (wpd) 210 1.000 30

S 5 Fladen 140

S 6 Groves Flak wpd

S 7 Kaerehamm E.ON Schweden 5 180–230 50 4

S 8 Karlskrona III Vattenfall 5 45 225

S 9 Klocktärnan wpd 660

S 10 Kriegers Flak II Vattenfall / Sweden Offshore Wind (wpd) 5 128 640 30 15–42

S 11 Södra midjösbanken I E.ON Schweden 5 180–230 300

S 12 Södra midjösbanken II E.ON Schweden 5 180–230 300

S 13 Södra midjösbanken III E.ON Schweden 5 180–230 300

S 14 Stora Middelgrunden

S 15 Storgrundet wpd 53 265

S 16 Taggen Vattenfall 5 83 300 13

S 17 Trolleboda Vattenfall 5 30 150 6

S 18 Uttgrunden II E.ON Schweden 24 90


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Company Product provide new jobs

BREMERhAVEn AreVA Multibrid Windturbine 150

powerblades Rotorblades 400

repower systems Windturbine 180

WeserWind Foundations 275

deutsche Windguard Windtunnel centre bremerhaven

Research for rotorblades 20

fraunhofer institute for Wind energy and energy system technology iWes

Research for rotorblades and foundations 80

CUXhAVEn Ambau Tower 200

cuxhaven steel construction Foundation 200

ed. Zueblin Foundation 500

EMdEn bard group Windturbine, Rotorblades, operating Offshore-Windfarms 1,000

nORdEnhAM norddeutsche seekabelwerke Offshore grid 100

STAdE pn rotor Rotorblades (aReVa Multibrid) 75

Summary: 2,980

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Lüneburg

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Göttingen

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Bremerhaven

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NordenhamEmden

Cuxhaven

Bremerhaven

nordenham

Emden

Wind generates WorkCounting only the major companies, offshore wind power has created nearly 3,000 jobs in recent years. In particular, the state governments of Bremen/Bremerhaven and Lower Saxony have sought to provide land and infrastructure for new businesses. What has not been counted are the many jobs in small and medium-sized regional service providers and suppliers.

Numbers are based on current company informations

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new shIps fOr OffshOre InstallatIOn Installation vessels, or the lack of them, will be a bottleneck in the construction of offshore wind farms in the years ahead. This is why a number of companies have decided to become independent of shipping com-panies by acquiring their own vessels. However, ship lenders are also expanding the range of ships on offer. Here is an overview of new developments.

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1 Thialf Heerema Marine Contractors 14.200 (2 x 7100) Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

2 Saipem 7000 Saipem 14.000 (2 x 7000) Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

3 Svanen Ballast Nedam 9000 Katamaran in Betrieb

4 hermod Heerema Marine Contractors 8100 (1 x 4500 1 x 3600) Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

5 Balder Heerema Marine Contractors 6300 (1 x 3600 1 x 2700) Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

6 Borealis Nordic Heavy Lift 5000 Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

7 Oleg Strashnov Seaway Heavy Lifting 5000 Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

8 dB 50 J. Ray McDermott 3992 Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

9 Rambiz Scaldis 3300 Katamaran in Betrieb

10 Asian hercules II Smit 3200 (4 x 825 + 4 x 825) Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb



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13 Sapura 3000 Sapura/Acergy 2700 Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

14 Stanislav yudin Seaway Heavy Lifting 2500 Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

15 Saipem 3000 Saipem 2177 Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

16 Matador 3 Bonn & Mees 600 + 1500 Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

17 Sea Jack A2Sea/Dong 1300 30 Jack up in Betrieb

18 Samson Otto Wulf 900 Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

19 Jumbo Javelin Jumbo Offshore 2 x 800 Heavy-weight vessel in Betrieb

20 Taklift 4 SMIT 2 x 700 + 2 x 400 Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

21 EnAK Bugsier-, Reederei- und Bergungsgesellschaft

600 Semi-submersible floating platform in Betrieb

22 Lisa-A Smit 600 33 Jack up in Betrieb

23 Lisa-A Smit 600 33 Jack up in Betrieb

24 Windlift 1 Bard Engineering 500 45 Jack up 2009

25 Sea Energy A2Sea/Dong 400 25 Jack up in Betrieb

26 Sea Power A2Sea/Dong 400 25 Jack up in Betrieb

27 Odin Hochtief Construction 300 35 Jack up in Betrieb

28 Titan 2 Siemens 300 40 Jack up in Betrieb

29 Mayflower Resolution MPI 300 35 Jack up in Betrieb

30 JB-114 Jack-up Barge 280 50 Jack up in Betrieb

31 JB-115 Jack-up Barge 280 50 Jack up in Betrieb

32 Seacore Excalibur Seacore 220 35 Jack up in Betrieb

33 OSA Goliath Coastline Maritime 1600 Monohull 2009

34 Seajacks Kraken GustoMSC 300 Lift Boat 2009

35 Leviathan GustoMSC 300 Lift Boat 2009

36 nordic heavy Lift Nordic Heavy Lift 5000 Monohull 2010

37 L 205 Master Marine 2 x 750 50 Jack up 2010

38 Thor Hochtief Construction 500 50 Jack up 2010

39 Seafox 7 GustoMSC 700 45 Jack up in Betrieb

40 Pauline (SEA-900) GustoMSC variable load 1100 30 Jack up in Betrieb

41 Buzzard GeoSea/Deme variable load 1400 40 Jack up in Betrieb

42 Goliath GeoSea/Deme variable load 2000 50 Jack up in Betrieb

43 Vagant (SEA-800) GustoMSC variable load 1000 30 Jack up in Betrieb

44 Seaworker (SEA-2000) GustoMSC variable load 1600 40 Jack up in Betrieb

45 Wind (nG-600) GustoMSC variable load 550 25 Jack up in Betrieb

Installation Vessels in planning1 L 206 Master Marine 2 x 750 50 Jack up 2011

2 Ed. züblin Offshore Carrier

Ed. Züblin 8000 Semi-submersible floating platform 2011

3 MV discovery MPI/Vroon 1000 40 Jack up 2011

4 MV Adventure MPI/Vroon 1000 40 Jack up 2011

5 Upstalsboom Prokon Nord 1400 + 500 50 Jack up 2011

6 Beluga hochtief Offshore

Beluga Hochtief Offshore 1700 50 Jack up 2012

7 Seabreeze 1 RWEI (RWE Innogy) 800 >45 Jack up 2011

8 Seabreeze 2 RWEI (RWE Innogy) 800 >45 Jack up 2012

9 Windlift 2 Bard Engineering 500 45 Jack up 2011

10 nG-2000 GustoMSC 300 40 Jack up

11 nG-4000 GustoMSC variable load 2750 45 Jack up

12 nG-7500-hPE GustoMSC 800 45 Jack up

13 nG-9000-hPE GustoMSC 800 45 Jack up

14 new build (SEA-2000) GustoMSC variable load 1600 40 Jack up

15 Windcarrier Windcarrier/Fred Olsen 800 45 Jack up 2012

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Wind turbines installed offshore are much larger and more powerful than those erected on land. The high cost of support structures needed in waters that are 40 metres deep or more makes them too expensive for smaller turbines. Turbines in the two-megawatt class are used only in projects closer to shore, but there are no such sites in germany’s territorial north Sea. Turbine manufactur-ers are now designing bigger turbines for deeper waters, with capacities between 6.5 and 10 MW.

Areva Multibrid

Type M5000

Capacity 5 MW

Rotor diameter 116 metres

Weight of nacelle without rotor blades 260 tons

Weight of three rotor blades 49.5 tons

Installed turbines 10

number of offshore turbines 6

Planned for construction

by 2011/2012

80 Global Tec I

21 Côte d’Albâtre

Type Offshore only

SiemensType SWT 3-6

Capacity 3.6 MW



Weight of three rotor blades 75 tons


number of offshore turbines 103

Planned for construction

by 2010/2011

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Type Offshore and onshore

BARdType Bard 5.0

Capacity 5 MW





number of offshore turbines 1 nearshore

Planned for construction by 2010 80 Bard Offshore 1

Offshore turbines planned 3,000 MW

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REpowerType 5 M Capacity 5 MW Rotor diameter 126 metres Weight of nacelle without rotor blades 380 tons Weight of three rotor blades 54 tons Installed turbines 17number of offshore turbines 2 Beatrice,

6 Thornton Bank Planned for construction by end of 2009 6Offshore turbines planned for 2010/2011

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Type Offshore and onshore

REpowerType

6 M Capacity 6 MW Rotor diameter 126 metres Weight of nacelle without rotor blades 380 tons Weight of three rotor blades 54 tons Installed turbines

3 in WP Westre number of offshore turbines 0Planned for construction by end of 2009 -Type

Offshore and onshore

Note: Offshore turbines with less than 3.0 MW

output power have not been taken into considera-

tion. At the time of going to press no data was

available for the larger turbines planned by Bard

and Clipper.

BARdType Bard 5.0

Capacity 5 MW





number of offshore turbines 1 nearshore

Planned for construction by 2010 80 Bard Offshore 1

Offshore turbines planned 3,000 MW

Type Offshore

VESTASType

V90Capacity 3 MW Rotor diameter 90 metres Weight of nacelle without rotor blades 70 tons Weight of three rotor blades 41 tons Installed turbines

500number of offshore turbines 126Planned for construction by end of 2010/2011 210Type

Offshore and onshore

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Transpower stromübertragungs gmbh (former e.On netz) is provid-ing the power link from the first wind farms in the north Sea to the main-land grid. a legal framework for this task was set by the infrastructure Planning acceleration act passed on 24 november 2006. Under this law, grid operators on the coast must see to linking wind farms off the coast, “power points at sea”, with the mainland. e.On and Vattenfall are re-sponsible for this in grid linkage in germany’s north- and Baltic Sea area. Since 2007, Transpower has commissioned labour and construction worth more than 400 million euros to connect wind farms like alpha ventus and Bard Offshore 1 to the grid.

The grid link for alpha ventus was completed early in 2009 (through a 110-kilovolt three-phase link). The power line from the wind farm to the feed-in point at the new hagermarsch transformer station (near the city of aurich) is about 70 kilometres long. it runs via the island norderney and the Wadden Sea national Park of Lower Saxony. Strict conservation regulations were imposed during con-struction to ensure there was no threat to plants and animals in the reserve. The offshore transformer station, where power from 12 wind turbines is collected, has been in place since September 2008. To reduce conduction losses, a 200-kilometre high-voltage DC transmis-sion line was built from the 400 MW Bard Offshore 1 wind farm – a world premiere. alternating current is converted to direct current at the wind farm’s transformer platform and then converted back to alternating cur-rent on land. The entire transmission system has been designed to link several wind farms.

new power grid for Offshore power

MOnItOrIng and cOntrOlSafeguarding offshore power generation requires remote mon-

itoring and control capability on land. BTC, an IT consultant firm located in Oldenburg and member of WAB, negotiated a contract with the alpha ventus project to create an integrated IT network for individual turbines manufactured by REpower and Multibrid; this also covers process monitoring and control from a control room, and integrates technical management as well, whether for plan-ning, administration or the documentation of maintenance done on wind turbines and transformer platforms. This system is entirely new in the market. Although individual turbines have software tailored especially for technical monitoring, a plan for the alpha ventus project which allowed overall manufacturer-independent control and management had to be set in place to optimise turbine management and ensure that power be reliably fed into the grid.

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The optimisation of the foundations has been driving the engineers since the initial concept sketches for offshore wind farms. The steel and concrete footings have to provide a secure foothold while being as cost-effective to manufacture and assemble as possible. This leads to various solutions for different wind farms: For a long time, the simplest case was so-called gravity foundations where the extended tower of the wind turbine was anchored into the seabed via a concrete base. With ever larger turbines and increasing water depths, engineers discovered that monopiles, where the extension of the tower is driven directly into

the ground, are the best solution. For greater water depths and larger turbines with 5 MW or more – especially in the German North Sea – vari-ous types of multi legs were developed. Depending on the steel price, assembly technology and philosophy, companies started using different models. Most recently, engineers have also been using gravity founda-tions for wind turbines with 5 MW and more. With their 4500 tons these concrete footings now weigh more than five express train railcars. For water depths beyond the 50 meter mark, new systems are being created which allow for a floating attachment of the wind turbines.

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Tripile Cuxhaven Steel Construction CSC

Hooksiel/ Bard Offshore 1

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Jacket WeserWind Prototype Bremerhaven

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Gravity Base Foundation 1

C-Power Thornton Bank 30 44 23.5 3,000

Gravity Base Foundation 2

Hochtief Construction Lillgrund 4 – 8 13.3 19 1,400

Tripod Aker Solution alpha ventus 30 30 20 500

Floating Foundation

StatoilHydro Hywind 220 100 8.3 5,300

Gravity Base Foundation 1 C-Power

Gravity Base Foundation 2 Hochtief Construction Tripod Aker Solution

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The new Klimahaus ® 8° Ost seems to float like a balloon over the Bremerhaven seaside. Whether by accident or design, the city which for several years has been bustling with growth from an ever-increasing number of businesses in the wind industry now has a futuristic cen-tre to experience climate change and the need for climate protection. Meanwhile, climate protection on a wholly practical level thrives in the Luneort industrial area, where Repower and Multibrid factories are located within sight of each other. These are two of only three manufacturers in the world who build wind turbines with a rated power of five MW or more. Together they intend to produce at least 200 turbines in the multi-megawatt class each year. if the annual rated power of this capac-ity is added together, the offshore industry in Bremerhaven alone provides more than the ca-

pacity of a large nuclear power plant each year. Suppliers such as SgL Rotec and WeserWind Offshore Construction georgsmarienhütte are also here. The research community has most recently been joined by Deutsche Windguard with its wind tunnel, and the Fraunhofer insti-tute for Wind energy and energy System Tech-nology (iWeS), with a test facility for 70-metre rotor blades. in 2010 a second test facility will be built for blades of the future – 90 metres long and with blade weights of up to 50 tons. Bremerhaven’s harbour, the vital link between manufacturers’ production facilities and off-shore construction sites, has also seen de-velopment. Since the summer of 2009, quays for heavy loads have become available at the fishing port, enabling manufacturers to ship out nacelles, tower segments and foundations weighing several hundred tons.

MOVeMent On the cOAstWith production focussed around

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Mayor Arno Stabbert

Cuxhaven – investment in the Offshore Basis

The Offshore Basis Cuxhaven has developed at a fast pace in the past two years. Since 2006, the State of Lower Saxony, with eU support, has invested more than 80 million euros in infrastructure for the Offshore Basis, and there have also been more than 100 million euros of private invest-ment. Close to the port, where a few months ago sheep were still grazing on the dyke, the site is now home to aMBaU and Cuxhaven Steel Construction production facilities.

The new offshore terminal was built next to production sites on the elbe river at a point deep enough for ocean-going ships. The offshore terminal was planned and built in just 18 months by niedersachsen Ports. Officially opened on 20 March 2009, this is the first port anywhere on the entire north Sea coast to be designed specially for shipping large offshore foundations, towers and other components. at the nearby offshore heavy load platform on the europakai quay, which was completed in early 2008, the first offshore foundations have already been loaded onto ships. The FinO 3 research platform was also loaded from the heavy load platform in early 2009. The heavy load platform offers excellent capabilities for all construction logistics needed for offshore wind farms in the north Sea. The port infrastructure for the offshore industry in Cuxhaven prompted ed. züblin to begin building facilities to mass produce gravity foundations from late 2009 onwards. The arrival of ed. züblin and other businesses in the offshore industry will help create at least 1,500 new jobs in Cuxhaven by 2013. Located only 40 kilometers from eachother, Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven together form the heart of offshore wind development in germany.

emden and Cuxhaven have also seen mas-sive expansion in their offshore industries. norddeutsche Seekabelwerke (nSW), across from Bremerhaven in nordenham, has invested some 40 million euros in a new production fa-cility for submarine cables sited directly on the bank of the Weser river. From here, submarine cables can be moved directly to a special cable ship. Since early 2009, hundreds of workers have been manufacturing cables for the alpha ventus wind farm’s internal linkage, Roedsand 2 (expansion of nysted/e.On) in the Danish Baltic, and Bard Offshore 1 in the north Sea. nSW in 2009 also supplied the island of heli-goland with its first link to the mainland grid in Schleswig-holstein. nSW has invested in a cable-laying platform, the nOSTag 10, used in projects to lay submarine cables.

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Connecting you


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Contact WaB Windenergie-agentur Bremerhaven/Bremen e.V. Jan Rispens, Managing Director Schifferstrasse 10-14 27568 Bremerhaven, germany Phone: +49 (0)471/39177-0 Fax: +49 (0)471/39177-19 [email protected] www.windenergie-agentur.de

Since 2002, the Wind Energy Agency Bremerhaven/Bremen (WAB), which is partly funded by the City of Bremen, has formed a network of businesses, re-searchers and public authorities in the wind energy industry. More than 200 members have now joined the WAB network, and membership keeps growing.

nearly all relevant businesses, institutes, government agencies and research institutes, from emden to hamburg and Cuxhaven to hanover, are WaB members. The Wind energy agency is a networking resource and a door-opener. anyone new to the region can contact locally based companies through the team at the WaB office. established businesses use the events staged by WaB to exchange information and experience within the industry. The offshore wind energy conference organised by WaB, “Windforce – Direction Offshore”, has now become an established date in the event calendar of offshore companies in germany and other countries.

apart from offshore wind energy, WaB focuses on education and train-ing, the repowering of old wind turbines in northern germany and the internationalisation of the industry. in addition to producing maga-zines and brochures relating to its focus areas, WaB sends its members a regular newsletter with important wind energy news from the region and the european offshore wind energy sector. But there is one thing above all else that WaB offers its members – excellent connections with businesses and decision-makers in industry and public administration in the region.

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hamburg, 2030. The small cars of hamburg’s moneyed classes are swarming past the big power point on the bank of the alster. it was around 20 years ago that the first legions of electrically powered cars produced by BMW, Volkswagen and Smart started to appear on ger-many’s roads. Back then, there were only 1,436 electric cars out of a total of 41,183,594 registered vehicles. Most cars ran on petrol or die-sel – evil-smelling liquids with dubious origins and an absurdly bad ecological balance. But the first oil price shock of the 21st century finally forced the government to take a serious look at alternatives to this waste of resources. electric cars seemed to offer a solution. But studies quickly showed that “if additional electricity needs are generated from coal-fired power stations, an average electric car will

produce up to 220g of CO2 per kilometre,” as environmental organisa-

tions calculated. That could have put an end to this new dawn for the electric car. But the association of german power generators had rec-ognised at the time that “wind energy alone would be able to replace all petrol consumption in germany.” Then some scientists came up with the brilliant idea of making drivers buy all the fuel for the car at the time they purchased the car itself. Power grid operators realised that in this way, especially in the cities of northern germany, they could acquire customers who would be certain to buy surplus wind power. The result is that today, in zero-emission cities such as hamburg, no old-fashioned combustion engine vehicles are allowed past the electronic city wall that keeps the polluting dinosaurs out.

Europe’s energy future

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Wind energy cluster in north west Germany87 companies and institutes participate as „germanwind –

Wind energy cluster in northwest Germany“ (germanwind)

in the Cluster of Excellence competition organised by the

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Project volume: 90 Million €

Project timeframe: 2010 until 2015

Overall objectives:

• Cost parity of wind energy on the wholesale energy market by 2015

• 30%-share of wind energy in the electricity supply by 2020

Areas of activity:

• Increasing the effi ciency of individual wind turbines

• Integration of wind energy into the power supply structure

• Opening new markets

www.germanwind.info

The Wind Energy Agency Bremerhaven/Bremen (WAB) acts as the mandated partner of the germanwind cluster. The cluster is coordinated in close cooperation with ForWind, the Centre for Wind Energy Research, the Offshore Wind Energy Foundation and BIMAQ (Bremen Institute of Measurement Technology, Automation and Quality Science) at the University of Bremen.

EUROPEAN UNION: Investment in your future – European Fund for Regional Development

The germanwind application is subsidised with EU funds:

Contact:Windenergie-Agentur Bremerhaven/Bremen e.V. (WAB)Schifferstraße 10-1427568 Bremerhaven, GermanyPhone: +49 (0) 471 [email protected]

www.germanwind.info

01 – 03 June 2010 in Bremerhaven, Germany

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each year, WAb organizes the german expert conference “WindfOrce - directiOn OffshOre” held in bremerhaven. it is here that developments in the offshore wind energy industry are presented, field trips to offshore companies are conducted, current offshore topics are discussed, contacts are established and information is exchanged.

42 internAtiOnAl speAkers, 550 cOnference pArticipAnts, 250 pArticipAnts At the excursiOn trOugh the nOrthWest regiOn 292 pArticipAnts At the MAritiMe Wind dinner2009:

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