Investors target Hohe See

Enbridge and Macquarie are eyeing bids for a 49.9% stake in EnBW’s 500MW Hohe See offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

Talks with potential investors are ongoing and will be finalised later this summer, industry sources told reNEWS.

Reuters has reported that Canadian outfit Enbridge is the frontrunner for the stake in the €2bn project. Enbridge took a 24.9% stake in Eon’s 400MW Rampion wind farm last year.

Australian investment bank Macquarie is a stakeholder in EnBW’s 288MW Baltic 2 wind farm and RWE’s 336MW Galloper project.

Meanwhile, EnBW is in the market for a contractor to remove UXO from the Hohe See construction site, some 95km west of the German island of Heligoland.

The campaign will start on 1 December this year and run to mid-June 2017.

The tender includes an option for similar works at the neighbouring 19-turbine Albatros project.

Image: EnBW’s Baltic 1 offshore wind farm (EnBW)