Electricity production in the North Sea is increasingly on the road, and now almost 1,000 wind turbines are operating here. With the construction of new wind parks, the contribution of the North Sea power to the German supply also increases.
The wind parks in the German North Sea have supplied 7.77 terawatt hours of electricity in the first six months of the year. This is an increase of 50 percent over the same period of the previous year, as the transmission network operator Tennet in Bayreuth communicated.
At the same time, 72 percent of the total production of the previous year had already been achieved by the end of the year. In addition, there are 0.7 terawatt hours from the Baltic Sea, so that the contribution of the offshore power totals 8.47 terawatt hours. This corresponds to 16.5 percent or one-sixth of the total wind generated in Germany.
Meanwhile, 953 wind turbines with an output of 4410 megawatts are produced in the North Sea, equivalent to approximately four very large conventional or nuclear power plants. The actual maximum feed-in was on 7 June at 4010 megawatts. From the Baltic Sea, 102 wind turbines are contributing another 339 megawatts of power.
The offshore wind farm EnBW Baltic 1. Source: EnBW