Global energy player Iberdrola has announced the final approval of its 315 MW Windanker wind farm project in the German Baltic Sea by Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). Construction of the wind farm starts this summer and is to end by 2026.
Iberdrola’s 315 MW Windanker offshore wind farm project factsheet
Location: Baltic Sea, Germany
Developer: Iberdrola
Partner: Kansai
Cost: €1.28 billion
Current phase: Construction
Turbine units: 21, SG 14-236 DD 15 MW turbines
Turbine supplier: Siemens Gamesa
Capacity: 315 MW
Other contractors: Windar
Start of construction date: Summer 2025
Operational date: Q4 2026
A look at Iberdrola’s 315 MW Windanker offshore wind project in Germany
With current offshore wind energy portfolio at 2,373 MW, Iberdrola plans to triple this number up to 6,500 MW by 2030. The 315 MW Windanker offshore wind project surely testifies to that. The latest federal go-ahead on the Windanker offshore wind project was the last planning approval stamp needed by the project whose development is already underway.
The new 315 MW Windanker wind farm in the German Baltic Sea will have 21 monopiloletes and other foundation infrastructure installed by Spanish-based Windar. This will be the first construction part of the project expected to start this summer. Upon completion of foundation installation, 21 Siemens Gamesa wind turbines each operating at 15 MW will then be installed. This will see Windanker wind project complete by the end of 2026. Once operational, the Windanker wind project in the German Baltic Sea will supply green energy to more than 300,000 homes.
Iberdrola’s play in Germany green energy transition
Also driving German green energy transition will be other Iberdrola renewable energy projects. With German Baltic Sea wind projects like the 476 MW Baltic Eagle and the €1.4 bn Wikinger wind farm with a capacity of 350 MW, the three offshore wind projects will have a cumulative capacity of more than 1 GW possibly supplying the country’s electricity grid.
Iberdrola’s renewable energy portfolio in Germany is also undoubtedly not cheap. The three mentioned projects, termed the “Baltic Hub in the German Baltic Sea” by the CEO of Iberdrola Germany, Felipe Montero, will have so far cost close to €4 bn. However, this is not in vain as Germany’s electricity grid has around 882 MW of green energy from a 1,388 GWh production capacity of renewable energy courtesy of Iberdrola.
As put by the renewable energy company, Iberdrola has been betting on clean energy for more than two decades and that is not going to stop soon. Iberdrola has also already signed Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for the 315 MW Windanker offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea.
