Iberdrola and Vestas have selected the Port of Roenne as the marhsalling location for turbines for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.
Some 50 offshore wind turbines will be pre-assembled and installed out of Port of Roenne, which is located on the island of Bornholm, Denmark.
The Iberdrola project will use Vestas V174-9.5MW turbines and will be situated in German waters 40km west of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.
With a capacity of 476MW and spanning a 40 km2 area, Baltic Eagle is Iberdrola’s second major German offshore initiative following the successful completion in 2017 of 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm.
Baltic Eagle will connect to the Lubmin substation through two newly established HV cables.
Port of Roenne chief executive Thomas Bendtsen said: “It is very positive that Iberdrola and Vestas have selected the Port of Roenne as the installation port for the Baltic Eagle project.
“This underlines our services are competitive.
“At the same time we are continuously implementing initiatives to improve the services offered to our customers in the market.”
Wikinger and Baltic Eagle together will be the largest offshore wind complex in the Baltic Sea, with over 826MW joint installed capacity and a total investment of roughly €2.5bn.
The cluster will produce enough energy to meet 45% of the total electricity consumption of the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania while preventing the release of nearly 1.65 million tonnes of CO2 each year, thus contributing to fulfilling Germany’s emission reduction targets.
The Baltic Eagle wind farm alone will prevent the release of around one million tonnes of CO2.