Germany moves ahead with major wind project

FRANKFURT – Germany has approved a second offshore wind energy project in the Baltic Sea with 330 megawatt (MW) capacity, the relevant authority BSH said on Wednesday.

“BSH has given permission to Arkona Windpark Entwcklungs GmbH of Stralsund to build an 80 turbine park and a platform for meteorological measurements 35 kilometres north-east of the island of Ruegen,” it said on its website.

The German authority, whose full title is Bundesamt fuer Seeschiffahrt and Hydrographie, has already approved nine projects in the North Sea and another called Kriegers Flak in the Baltic Sea.

It is also processing 31 more applications for wind parks and transmission cables in the zone outside the 12 sea-mile border off the northern German coast.

Reuters