The Borkum wind farm is adjacent to the company’s Borkum Riffgrund West 1 development project and the two projects combined have a total capacity of up to 550MW. An application for consent for Borkum Riffgrund West 2 has already been submitted and could be built after 2020 if grid connection is granted and the company makes a final investment decision in the project.
“With the Borkum Riffgrund West 2 project we are now strengthening our post 2020 pipeline” said Samuel Leupold, Executive Vice President, DONG Energy Wind Power. “Having our other offshore wind project, Borkum Riffgrund West 1 right next to it, there are a number of synergies for the development, construction and operation of this project.”
DONG Energy is also constructing three other offshore wind farms in the German North Sea with a combined total capacity of around 900 MW. These projects are Borkum Riffgrund 1 with 312 MW capacity and Gode Wind 1 and 2 with a total of 582 MW capacity.
The German government has set itself a target to install 15 GW of offshore wind by 2030 to support the transition to a renewable electricity supply. So far, DONG Energy has constructed around a third of all the offshore wind farms in Europe, representing a total capacity of 2,500 MW. The company is planning to built a total of 6,500 MW by 2020.
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