The ‘alpha ventus’ offshore wind farm, off the North Sea coast of Lower Saxony, Germany
The ‘alpha ventus’ offshore wind farm, off the North Sea coast of Lower Saxony, Germany
‘alpha ventus’, situated 75 kilometres off the German North Sea coast, was the first offshore wind farm. The twelve wind turbines became operational in 2010. If companies and wind power equipment manufacturers find favourable conditions, the North Sea could become home to offshore wind farms with a combined generating capacity as high as 135 gigawatts by the year 2030. This is the result of a study conducted as part of an international project chaired by the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and in which the German Aerospace Center (DLR) participated.
