Work is underway on the over 67MW Burgerwindpark Fehndorf-Lindloh wind farm in Lower Saxony, Germany, that will also include a battery storage facility and hydrogen converter.
The project will feature 16 Enercon E-138 E2 4.2MW turbines with hub heights of 160 metres and rotor diameters of 138 metres.
It is being built at Emsland near the town of Haren, with the power generated to be converted to hydrogen via a power-to-gas plant.
The energy will be used to improve the self-sufficiency of Haren.
The major shareholder in the project is Agrowea, as well as Enercon and the citizens of the Fehndorf-Lindloh region.
Innogy and its distribution network operator Westnetz are building the 4.9 megawatt-hour storage plant and the network infrastructure.
Haren mayor Markus Honnigfort said: “The basic idea behind our project is at the same time the central guiding principle of the energy transition, namely to generate electricity close to consumption and to make the regionally generated wind energy including surplus electricity locally usable by sector coupling.”