Ovag Energie has officially opened the 16.5MW Wartenberg wind farm in Hesse in Germany, bringing the company’s total installed capacity in the country to over 100MW.
The project features five Vestas V112-3.3MW turbines with 140-metre hub heights and a 112-metre rotor diameters.
Full commissioning of the €29m project is slated for the end of October.
Ovag subsidiary Hessen Energie will operate the wind farm, which is expected to feed some 29.5 million kilowatt-hours a year of electricity into the grid.
Ovag Energie executive Rainer Schwarz said: “With the opening of the Wartenberg wind farm we have reached 113MW of installed capacity.”
The company obtained a construction license for the project in November last year.
Vestas kicked off foundation construction in March, with the last turbine coming online in late August.
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