Wind farms off the coast of Germany have exported some 5.8TWh of electricity in the first half of 2016, according to transmission operator TenneT.
Projects in the German North Sea delivered 5.18TWh in the first six months of the year – up 230% on the 2.26TWh in the same period in 2015 – while 0.61TWh came from installations in the Baltic Sea.
Power produced in the North Sea has provided 12.6% of the 41.1TWh output from onshore and offshore wind farms in Germany, compared with 6.3% in the first half of 2015.
TenneT has eight offshore wind grid connection systems in place, with wind farms totalling 3215MW connected.
Output from these wind farms reached a maximum of 2686MW on 30 May 2016, it added.
A further four grid hubs will be commissioned by the end of 2019, when total grid capacity will reach 7.1GW, TenneT said.
In 2015, offshore wind farms delivered a total of 8.14TWh of electricity, with 7.36TWh coming from the North Sea. Onshore wind output was 70.92TWh.
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