North Sea Wind Farm to Provide Power to Munich

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Swedish renewable energy company Vattenfall has recently announced a partnership with Stadtwerke Munchen that would result in the building of a massive offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Costing 1 billion Euros, the project will provide energy for 500,000 homes in Munich.

With wind turbines supplied by Siemens and built over a 70 square kilometers west of the German island of Sylt, the wind farm will have a capacity of 288 megawatts and can produce an annual 1,320 gigawatt-hours. Aside from providing power to thousands of German households, the wind farm will also provide energy to Munich’s subway and tram network.

Vattenfall will own 51 percent of the venture, while Stadtwerke Munchen, Germany’s biggest municipal utility, will own 49 percent.

Vattenfall has scheduled the project to commence in 2012 and to finish by 2014. The Swedish company has recently completed phase 1 of its Thanet Offshore Wind Farm in the southeast coast of England, which is the biggest offshore wind farm to date.