According to a recent report from Germany Trade & Invest, the country is setting up an energy highway linking the northern and southern parts of the country.
The highway is planned to transport the wind energy from its high productive northern regions to the places in western and southern regions where the power consumption is more.
Germany produces more wind power than any of the European countries and more than 50% of its approved offshore wind power generations are taking place at the coast lines of the country. With a focus on its offshore wind generation projects, the country is planning to generate 25 GW electric power from its offshore installations by the year 2030, which can be equated to the power produced by nearly 20 nuclear power production facilities.
During May this year, Baltic 1, a 48.3 MW wind park, the first offshore wind production facility located in the Baltic Sea has started its power production. The facility will generate around 185 GWh of power every year to meet the yearly power requirements of 50,000 homes. Earlier, last year alpha ventus, a wind farm located at North Sea started generating 60 MW power.
The other offshore wind power generation facilities that are under various stages of completion include BARD Offshore 1, a 400 MW facility in the North Sea, Dan Tysk and Baltic 2 each with production capability of 288 MW, Amrumbank West 300 MW and Nordsee Ost 295 MW.
KfW Banking Group of Germany is anticipated to earmark around EUR 5 billion credit exclusively for the construction of the first 10 offshore wind generation facilities in the country.
Source: http://www.gtai.com/