Key Facts

Wikinger Offshore Windfarm is a €1.4 billion investment
Iberdrola took control of the project in 2010
Located in the German Exclusive Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea, 75 km from the mainland, close to the Island of Rügen
The windfarm site covers an area of approximately 34 km²
Turbine manufacture is underway at Adwen’s facilities in Stade and Bremerhaven, preparing 70 Adwen AD5-135 devices, each generating 5 megawatts – the most powerful ever to be used on an Iberdrola project world-wide.
Fixed four-legged foundations will used, fabricated by Navantia WINDAR JV and Bladt Industries
In total, up to 350 megawatts will be connected to the grid in 2017
Water depths at the site range from 37 meters to 43 meters
One Offshore Sub Station platform, which together with the grid operator 50Hertz, will be used to collect electricity from the turbines and transform it to a form suitable for transfer to shore. It will be one of the largest of its kind, measuring 60 metres long by 22 metres wide, weighing over 4,800 tonnes.
There will be 3 seabed export cables, each around 90 km in length, to transfer the electricity to shore
More than 80 km of array cable is required to connect the turbines to the Offshore Sub Station and fabrication of the cable is already completed
Offshore construction works commenced in March 2016 with piles being installed using the specialist 'Giant 7' Vessel

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