EnBW Supervisory Board has given the Green Light for Albatros

EnBW announced that its Supervisory Board has given the green light for Albatros and approved the final decisions regarding construction and investment.

Albatros supply contracts for all main infrastructure work have already been concluded. Siemens AG has been appointed general contractor for the turbines, foundations and, for the first time, the transformer station. The Dutch company GEOSEA NV is the subcontractor responsible for the foundations. The contractual partner for the array cabling at the wind farm is VBMS GmbH.

Albatros will feature 16 turbines of type Siemens SWT-7.0-154 and will have an installed capacity of 112 MW. EnBW will realise both wind farms by 2019 as a joint project with a capacity of around 610 megawatts. This marks another milestone for the company from Karlsruhe in its strategic orientation towards renewable energies and will be its fourth offshore wind farm.

EnBW Albatros is located in the so-called “exclusive economic zone”.  After the scheduled commissioning of the wind farms in 2019, Hohe See and Albatros will together generate around 2.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually. The electricity generated by Albatros and Hohe See will thus cover the aggregate electricity requirements of all private households in Munich.

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