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Baltic 2 greenlights turbine operation

By: Chris Anderson 04/08/2015 presse@enbw.com

General Turbines Windfarms

All 80 turbines have completed ten-day trial operation successfully

Following the completion of installation of all 80 turbines installed by the vessel 'VIDAR' last month EnBW Baltic 2 has just ended its 240 hours testing of all 80 wind turbines. During the current commissioning phase all 80 wind turbines (Siemens SWT-3.6) went through an extensive 10-day trial. Now the eightieth turbine has completed the 240-hour test run - and thus another milestone commissioning phase has been successfully passed. All systems have now fed their first amounts of electricity into the grid.

The next step to commercial use of wind farms is the more radical cross-system tests.

EnBW Baltic 2 has been 32 kilometers North of the Baltic island of Ruegen. The eighty wind turbines will output a total capacity of 288 megawatts. The offshore wind farm is expected to generate 1,200 gigawatt hours of electricity annually for approximately 340,000 households and reduce offset 900,000 tonnes of CO2. In part this is due to the high wind speeds at its offshore location in the German part of the Baltic Sea

EnBW Baltic 1, the first commercial offshore wind park starting in 2010 combined with that of the EnBW Baltic 2 has taken EnBW AG to the number one spot in the offshore sector with an operating portfolio of approximately 1,600 megawatts.

Dutch pension fund manager PGGM recently announced its involvement with the project by investing in the project alongside Macquarie Capital, agreeing to acquire a 49.89 percent stake. This investment fits in the ambition of PGGM’s clients to use pension money to contribute to a more sustainable world. Baltic 2 will be subjected to the current German regulatory regime under which it will benefit from approximately eleven years of fixed energy prices and another nine years of downside protection when it sells electricity at market prices.

This part of the project now takes the project almost to completion on what has been a busy time for the developers. At the end of February the last of 86 cable sections were pulled in, which completed the internal cabling of the wind farm. A total of 91 km of cables were laid for the internal wind farm cabling. The main installation of the foundations was also completed. In addition to the 41 jacket foundations, which are used from a depth of 35 metres below sea level, all 39 monopile foundations (up to 35 metres below sea level) were installed. Altogether, about 80,000 tonnes of steel were used for the 80 foundations.

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