TenneT transmitted over 29TWh of energy from wind farms in the Dutch and German North Sea to land in 2022, beating last year’s figures.
In total, 21.13TWh was fed into the German grid, while 7.91TWh were transmitted to the Netherlands.
For Germany, the 2022 figure is 4% more than 2021, when North Sea wind farms provided 20.3TWh.
Furthermore, total onshore and offshore wind power generation in Germany reached 125.28TWh in 2022, an increase on 2021’s 114.37TWh.
However, the share of North Sea electricity in 2022 dropped, coming in at around 16.9%, just under one percentage point below 2021’s 17.8%.
Meanwhile, for the Netherlands, 2022’s 7.91TWh was up on the previous year’s figure of 4.71 TWh.
The strong increase compared to the previous year is mainly due to the commissioning of TenneT’s offshore grid connection systems Hollands Kust (zuid) Alpha and Beta as well as corresponding additions to the offshore wind farms in 2022.
TenneT COO Tim Meyerjürgens said: “The North Sea has been reliably and stably supplying a large share of wind power in the Netherlands and Germany for years. It is therefore right and important to tap the potential of the North Sea as a wind power source for the Netherlands, Germany and Europe even better in the future.”