Titel: Offshore-Bürger-Windpark Butendiek – Will Germany’s first large offshore windpark be a cooperative project?
Författare: Sebastian Meyer
Utgivare: Sebastian Meyer
Årtal: 2004
Ämnesord: Vindkraftanläggningar internationellt
Projektrapport (Pdf)
Sammanfattning: From November 2001 till Spring 2004, four offshore projects have received building permission in the German North Sea: Borkum West, Butendiek, Borkum Riffgrund and Borkum Riffgrund West.
In a first stage, an overall capacity of about 890 MW can be installed. With proven records of success in the first stage, the project managers plan to increase the capacity up to 3000 MW in a second step. The installed capacity would thus equal the capacity (not the energy production!) of three average nuclear reactors. But today, the projects are still in their planning stage. Although the enacting of the “EEG-Novelle” with its fixed feed-in tariffs would create very good and foreseeable financial framework conditions, some challenges remain to be mastered. The considerable water depths, the long-distant energy transport and the sheer dimensions of the projects shall be mentioned here. All of the four projects are planned to enter construction stage between 2005 and 2006. Among those, the Bürger-Windpark Butendiek with its 80 x 3 MW turbines was one of the first to receive building permission. Although the project is located in a potential Nature 2000 area, an Environmental Impact Assessment for the offshore park considered the park as ecologically compatible and not harmful to the environment. The Middelgrunden Project in Denmark showed that a cooperative project can become very successful. This can be partly explained by the big number of participants who turn their attention to all the details concerning the project. Thus, a successful realization of the Bürger-Windpark Butendiek is presumable. Regarding the pioneer role for the exploration of offshore wind energy in Germany, one still has to remain careful with financial predictions.