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Ørsted merges German projects

By: Tom Russell 10/09/2019 Ørsted

General Windfarms

Ørsted has announced plans to merge the Borkum Riffgrund West 1, Borkum Riffgrund West 2 and OWP West offshore wind farms under the common project name Borkum Riffgrund 3 and also build out the arrays as one project. It also aims to do the same thing for the Gode Wind 3 and Gode Wind 4 projects.

The offshore wind farms Borkum Riffgrund West 1 (420 MW), Borkum Riffgrund West 2 (240 MW) and Northern Energy OWP West (240 MW) projects are all located in Cluster 1 of the German North Sea around 53 kilometers off the island of Borkum. Effective immediately, the projects will be operating under the name Borkum Riffgrund 3.

The Gode Wind 3 (110 MW) and Gode Wind 4 (132 MW) projects are located in Cluster 3 of the German North Sea and will operate under the name Gode Wind 3. The array will be built about 32 kilometers off the island of Norderney.

The merger of the respective project companies has already been completed. The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) also requested the merger of the respective planning approval procedures.

The spatial proximity of the wind farms allows Ørsted to build one wind farm each area and conduct the necessary investigations of the marine environment for both projects in one process at a time. Ørsted had already followed a similar approach in the construction of the Gode Wind 1 and 2 wind farms.

Ørsted had been awarded the contracts for the five original projects in the 2017 and 2018 offshore wind tenders. The final investment decision for the construction is still pending. In the case of a construction, the grid connection is expected for the years 2023 (Gode Wind 3) and 2024 (Borkum Riffgrund 3).

A total of 1142 megawatts of power will be connected to the converter platforms DolWin Epsilon and DolWin Kappa to be built by transmission system operator TenneT.

In the case of Borkum Riffgrund 3, for the first time, Ørsted wants to implement a new connection concept together with TenneT. The concept would see a direct connection of the wind turbines with 66 kV connecting cables to the TenneT offshore converter platform DolWin5. A separate offshore substation in the wind farm is therefore eliminated and no export cable is required by the network operator.

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