Germany completes its first large offshore wind farm

A consortium has installed 12 large wind turbines in the North Sea, to complete Germany’s first offshore wind farm alpha ventus. The facility, alpha ventus, was built by EWE, E.ON and Vattenfall in the consortium DOTI (Deutsche Offshore-Testfeld- und Infrastruktur Gesellschaft GmbH) at a cost of €250 million. All 12 wind turbine units were installed in less than 7 months, and 6 of the wind turbines are already being test-run and have generated 13 million kWh of wind power.