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Dan Tysk opens officially

By: Lewis Holdsworth 30/04/2015 Vattenfall

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Several goverment bodies have today gathered in Hamburg, Germany to celebrate the formal opening of the DanTysk offshore wind farm.

Located 70 kilometres west of Sylt Island, the DanTysk offshore wind farm is the first infrastructure project jointly implemented by Vattenfall and SWM as part of the energy transition in Germany. Vattenfall holds a 51% stake in DanTysk Offshore GmbH, which is responsible for construction and operation, while SWM holds 49%. The site comprises a total of 80 Siemens wind turbines in the 3.6 megawatt (MW) class with a total installed capacity of 288 MW. The capital investment is more than EUR 1 billion. DanTysk will generate climate-neutral power equivalent to the annual consumption of more than 400,000 average households. Offshore construction started in February 2013.

Lars G Nordström, Chairman of the Vattenfall Board of Directors: “Vattenfall’s owner, the Swedish state, has given the company a clear assignment to generate a market rate of return by operating a commercial energy business that enables the company to be among the leaders in developing environmentally sustainable energy production. As the Chairman of Vattenfall’s Board of Directors, I am committed to do everything to enable Vattenfall to be among the leaders of the energy transition. I have great confidence that together we can make the change happen. Today’s inauguration of the wind farm DanTysk is a powerful signal for that.”

Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM) are continuing their established partnership in the construction of offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. In August 2014 the responsible committees of the two companies gave the green light for the construction of the Sandbank offshore wind farm, which will also have a capacity of 288 MW and will be built near DanTysk in the summer of 2015. The capital investment for Sandbank is roughly EUR 1.2 billion.

Dr Florian Bieberbach, CEO of SWM: "With today's official commissioning we add the first finalized offshore wind farm to our portfolio. In terms of capital investment as well as installed capacity, DanTysk is our largest completed renewable energy project to date. Thanks to excellent cooperation with Vattenfall and Siemens, our expansion campaign for renewable energy is taking a big step forward – from May our renewable assets, including SWM’s DanTysk share, will be feeding enough green power into the grid to meet the needs of all private households, underground, tram and electric vehicles in Munich."

The DanTysk wind power turbine includes 80 windmills in the 3.6 megawatt (MW) class from manufacturer Siemens, with a height totalling 150 metres from sea level to the tip of the rotor blade. DanTysk is spread across an area of 70 square kilometres (around 7,000 football pitches) in the German exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on the border with Danish territorial waters and has an installed capacity of 288 megawatts (MW). Offshore construction of the foundations started in February 2013, and erection of the first wind turbines commenced in mid-April 2014. The 80 wind turbines were installed during a time frame of about four months. DanTysk is a joint venture of Vattenfall (51%) and Stadtwerke München (49%).

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