EnBW has taken a final investment decision to build the 112MW Albatros offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, after internal assessments signalled the profitability of the project.
The decision to go ahead with Albatros, which was first reported in the subscriber-only newsletter reNEWS, will see 16 Siemens SWT-7.0-154 turbines erected some 105km north of the island of Borkum.
GeoSea will install Sif and Smulders-built foundations, with VBMS tackling array cabling at the project.
Siemens will also supply an offshore transformer on a monopile foundation, a first for Germany, that will interconnect with EnBW’s adjacent 497MW Hohe See wind farm.
The project site covers 10 square kilometres with water depths of 40 metres.
Albatros will be built in parallel with Hohe See, which will connect to the 900MW BorWin3 in August 2019.
The company announced in February it would build Hohe See, but delayed the decision for the sister project Albatros due to unclear grid connection timings.
In April, transmission operator TenneT set 31 October 2019 for tying in at the 800MW BorWin2 hub, narrowing a window that was previously defined as “summer or autumn”.
Image: the 6MW version of the Siemens 154 turbine (Siemens)
