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EnBW Baltic 2 is officially put into operation

By: Tom Russell 21/09/2015 EnBW edited by 4C Offshore

General Turbines Windfarms

Following it's ten-day operational trial, EnBW Baltic 2 was officially put into operation today (21 September 2015). The projects turbines, installed by the vessel VIDAR, completed 240 hours on 4 August 2015.

In the presence of the Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Erwin Selle ring, and numerous guests from business and politics, EnBW AG today officially inaugurated its second offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. After two years of construction, EnBW Baltic 2 can now generate enough electricity for about 340,000 households annually.

In his welcoming speech, the EnBW CEO Frank Mastiaux stressed: "We want to expand the renewable energy a key pillar of our business. The commissioning of EnBW Baltic 2 is another milestone in implementing our strategy EnBW 2020. And further evidence that the restructuring of the energy supply in the direction of decentralisation and renewable energy is irreversible, not only in Germany but worldwide. A strong EnBW team in Hamburg and Baden-Württemberg has made it possible with our partners this success. We aim to build on in the coming years, if we take further wind farm projects at sea in attack. Currently, we have three more offshore wind farms with a total of 1,600 MW in the North Sea in the project pipeline. "

Prime Minister Erwin Selle ring said: "The expansion of offshore wind power is of crucial importance for the great national task of the energy transition, because the wind power plants at sea are almost baseload and even then supply electricity when elsewhere lull. The commissioning of Baltic 2, the second wind farms off the German Baltic coast, is therefore a very important event for us in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and for the whole of Germany. "

Boris Schucht, CEO of 50Hertz said: "With our now second offshore grid connection in the Baltic Sea, we show together with our partner, the wind farm operator EnBW that the offshore development works. This represents that we have learned in recent years, an enormous technological and logistical challenge. The 42 percent share of renewable energies in electricity consumption in the grid area of 50Hertz in 2014 shows that we are here in the region on track, the energy transition successfully implement. For this purpose, just include increasingly the connections of offshore wind farms to the transmission grid. Now, the German domestic network expansion to accelerate further, to transport the electricity from the northern and eastern Germany to the consumption centers to the south and west is true. "

"We are in the offshore wind energy before the second expansion phase. The wind farm Baltic 2 is four times as large and generates six times as much electricity as the previous project. This shows what chance brings the industrialisation of offshore wind power with them. This needs to be. "Emphasised Uwe Beckmeyer, MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Minister of Economy and Energy.

Silke Krebs, Minister in the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, emphasised: "We are seaworthy, at least for wind turbines. This indicates the start of Baltic 2, and we are pleased that EnBW Baden-Württemberg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern together to advance the energy revolution a big step. "

EnBW Baltic 2 is located 32 kilometres North of the island of Ruegen. On an area of 27 square kilometres are 80 wind turbines (Siemens SWT-3.6) with a total capacity of 288 megawatts. The offshore wind farm will annually produce 1.2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity for computationally 340,000 households and reduce 900,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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.

For more information about either EnBW Baltic 1 or EnBW Baltic 2 please follow the links provided. Alternatively you can view the project on our interactive map.

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