Trianel’s 200MW Borkum offshore wind farm starts operation at full power

German utility group Trianel said on Thursday its 200 MW offshore wind farm Borkum will start producing electricity at full capacity next month.

Following the successful commissioning of the last turbine, all 40 wind turbines are now in test operation phase and will transfer to regular operation in August, Klaus Horstick, managing director of Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum GmbH & Co. KG, said.

Construction of the wind farm, which is located about 45 kilometres off the coast of the North Sea island of Borkum, started in September 2011 but then run into difficulties with grid-connection. The transmission system operator had repeatedly delayed the connection to the grid, upsetting the planned construction schedule.

Based on its expected 4,000 full load hours, the Trianel wind farm Borkum will generate over 800 GWh of electricity per year, enough to supply over 200,000 households.

Besides Trianel, investors in the offshore wind farm with a total of EUR 1 billion (USD 1.086 bn) are 33 municipal utilities and regional providers from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland.

(EUR 1 = USD $1.086)

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