Siemens & E.ON to Build Major Danish Offshore Wind Farm
Oct 8, 2008 – E.ON [Amsterdam: E-ON.AS ] placed an order with Siemens Energy [NYSE: SI ] for the supply of 90 wind turbines for an offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. With an installed capacity of 207 MW the project will be one of the largest offshore wind farms. The 90 turbines with a rotor diameter of 93 meters and a capacity of 2.3 MW each will be installed in 2010. The order is worth roughly EUR275 million.
The new project will be located near the existing Rødsand I offshore wind farm that was connected to the power grid in 2003. The Rødsand I wind farm is equipped with 72 Siemens 2.3-MW wind turbines and is jointly operated by E.ON and the Danish company DONG Energy . To date the Rødsand I project, which is also referred to as the Nysted wind farm, is the largest installed Danish offshore wind farm with a total capacity of 165.6 MW.
The Rødsand II offshore farm will save the emission of around 700,000 tons of C02 per year. “With roughly 1,800 MW of offshore wind power capacity either installed or on order, Siemens is the number one supplier of offshore wind turbines,” said René Umlauft, CEO of the Siemens Renewable Energy Division.
Independent of this contract, Siemens Energy and E.ON recently announced the signing of a large framework agreement for the supply of 500 wind turbines. The machines with a total capacity of 1,150 MW will be installed in onshore projects in Europe and in the USA in 2010 and 2011.
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actually it is not that hard to setup wind farms, the only problem is that it requires lots of capital investment.”‘:
wind farms are great but they also take up a large land area,*-
wind farms in germany are great! i hope that we could install those in every country*;~