Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued its decision to approve the plan for the construction and operation of the ‘Windanker’ offshore wind farm. In an area of 25 square kilometres, north-east of Rügen, in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (AWZ) of the Baltic Sea, 21 wind turbines will be built. The total grid capacity will be 300 megawatts, enough to power several hundred thousand households.
BSH handed over the planning approval for the Windanker wind farm to the future operator, Iberdrola, at its headquarters in Rostock on 31 January 2025. The newest offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea will be built 38 kilometres northeast of Rügen, in the O-1.3 area of the 2020 and 2023 zoning plan. The approval is for the construction of 21 wind turbines with a capacity of 14 megawatts each, which will be able to reach up to 15 megawatts with the help of the powerboost function, as well as internal cable infrastructure over an area of 25 square kilometres.
The ‘Windanker’ farm will be, alongside the ‘Wikinger’ and ‘Baltic Eagle’ farms, Iberdrola’s third wind farm in the German EEZ of the Baltic Sea. The wind turbines will have a rotor diameter of 236 metres above sea level. They will be mounted on 10-metre-diameter monopile foundations in water depths of 41 to 46 metres. Electricity will be transmitted at 66 kilovolts to the ‘Jasmund’ transformer platform, approved in another planning procedure as part of transmission grid operator 50 Hertz’s ‘Ostwind 3’ project.
BSH CEO Helge Heegewaldt said: ‘According to the Offshore Wind Energy Act, 30 GW of grid-connected offshore wind turbine capacity is to be installed in Germany by 2030. The decision to approve the plan for the Windanker wind farm is another important step towards independence from fossil fuels and an important contribution to climate protection.’
Source: BSH