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First Turbine Up and Running at 960MW German Offshore Wind Farm

Offshore Engineer
The first wind turbine on EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm, the largest offshore wind farm in Germany, has generated the first kilowatt-hour of electricity and…

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EnBW He Dreiht offshore wind farm (Credit: Rolf Otzipka/Supplied by EnBW)
EnBW He Dreiht offshore wind farm (Credit: Rolf Otzipka/Supplied by EnBW)

The first wind turbine on EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm, the largest offshore wind farm in Germany, has generated the first kilowatt-hour of electricity and fed it into the grid

EnBW has so far built 27 out of a total of 64 wind turbines, which are all set to be commissioned by summer 2026.

A single rotation of the rotor on the Vestas-built 15 MW wind turbine is enough to supply the equivalent of four households with electricity for a day.

At a hub height of 142 meters, the rotor with a diameter of 236 meters sweeps through an area of 43,742 square meters per revolution – equivalent to the area of six football fields.

EnBW completed the internal wind farm cabling that connects all of the EnBW He Dreiht wind turbines in August. The wind farm’s internal cabling was also connected to the converter platform, which is managed by the transmission system operator TenneT.

With its 960 MW capacity, He Dreiht is

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