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German allocation round results

4C Offshore | Tom Russell
By: Tom Russell 05/11/2015 4C Offshore
Over the past few months, The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (BSH) held an auction to allocate 211.1MW of grid connection capacity for offshore wind farms in the German Baltic and North Sea. The new grid capacity allows for connections at the BorWin2 and DolWin3 offshore converters.

The currently operational Global Tech I offshore wind farm currently occupies 400 MW of the maximum 800MW capacity of the BorWin2 converter. Once the BorWin3 converter has been constructed Global Tech I will then redirect its generated electricity via BorWin3 instead of BorWin2 according to plans outline by the BSH.

Results of the auction show that Trianel wind farm Borkum GmbH & CO. KG were allocated 50MW for the Borkum phase two bringing the project's total grid allocation to 250MW.

The British Wind Energy GmbH were awarded an extra 42MW connection capacity to the BorWin2 converter for the Deutsche Bucht wind farm, however this capacity will only be available after the installation of BorWin3 and the switch-over of Global Tech I.

EnBW's Hohe See project was also awarded 50MW which will allow a total capacity of 500MW to be exported to shore, as 450MW was already allocated to be transmitted via the BorWin3 converter in a previous tender. The wind farm is set to be constructed next to the Global Tech I development.

EnBW's Albatros project, in line for development following Hohe See, applied for 140MW through the auction, however they were only awarded 66.8MW. Although 50MW has been secured through the BorWin3 converter, Albatros plans to install 400MW of total capacity and therefore will wait for future tender rounds to secure further allocation. So far they have secured 116.8MW transmission capacity across both converters of the 190MW they applied for.

2.3MW has been awarded to ESG stainless and Umwelttechnik GmbH Stralsund who are developing a floating offshore turbine in the Baltic sea. The GICONĀ® floating foundation that will support a Siemens SWT-2.3MW turbine will be deployed during the first half of 2016. The GICONĀ®  foundation is suitable for water depths of 20 metres up to 700 metres, which could potentially open up a market for deeper water deployments in the future.

The fully operational 288MW Meerwind Ost/Sud failed to secure an additional 16MW transmission capacity through the BorWin 2 converter, although it was unclear as to what the additional capacity would be used for.

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