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07 Aug '12, 5pm

Construction starts on Germany's €1.3bn Meerwind offshore wind farm project - Renewable Energy Focus: reNews Eur...

To comprise 80 Siemens 3.6MW turbines, the 288MW offshore project will be located about 23km northwest of the island Helgoland in the German North sea. Owned by WindMW GmbH , a joint-venture between global investment firm Blackstone and Windland Energieerzeugungs GmbH, the €1.3bn project became the first German offshore wind farm to be fully financed in August 2011 thanks to the KfW offshore wind programme . “There is much work still to be done during the offshore installation but we are on track to begin delivering clean power to the public grid next year," said Jens Assheuer, CEO of WindMW. The first stage of offshore construction is the preparation of the seabed, carried out by dredging and marine contractor Boskalis on behalf of Seajacks . Seajacks is then scheduled to install the 80 monopile foundations (manufactured by AMBAU at its facilities in facilities in Cuxhave...

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