Nordsee One is an

offshore wind farm Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea. There are higher wind speeds offshore than on land, so offshore farms generate more electricity per amount of ...

in the

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part of the

North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian ...

. It has a

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of 332 MW and was commissioned in 2017. It uses 54 Senvion 6.2M126

wind turbine A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each year. ...

s that are expected to produce 1200 GWh of electricity annually. The wind farm is owned by

Northland Power Northland Power ( TSXNPI is a power producer founded in 1987, and publicly traded since 1997. Northland develops, builds, owns and operates clean and green power infrastructure assets in Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and other select ...

(85%) and Innogy (15%). Offshore construction began in December 2015. All 54 turbines get their rotor shaft main bearings replaced during 2021-2022.

References

External links

Nordsee One website

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