German company RWE along with partners, Stadtwerke Muenchen and Siemens has commissioned £2bn Gwynt y Môr wind farm in Liverpool Bay, UK.
With installed capacity of 576MW, the Gwynt y Môr is claimed to be the second largest offshore wind farm in the world.
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It will generate enough power to supply renewable electricity to 400,000 residential households per year.
German energy company RWE owns 60% stake in the wind farm while German utility Stadtwerke München owns 30% stake and Siemens holds 10% stake.
Extended across 80 km2 , the farm features 160 Siemens turbines with each having a capacity of 3.6 MW. It also features 160 steel monopile foundations weighing up to 700 tonnes.
Siemens said that each turbine rises 150m above the mean sea level.
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By GlobalDataRWE along with its contractors have installed two offshore substations weighing 1,300 tonnes along with 134km of onshore cable.
Stadtwerke München CEO Dr. Florian Bieberbach said: "Gwynt y Môr marks the second offshore wind park in which we are participating that has been successfully completed.
"Offshore wind is still a very young technology and entails a certain amount of imponderables. I am all the more pleased that we have now been able to successfully conclude the construction of Gwynt y Môr.
"Gwynt y Môr is a further significant building block in our Renewable Energies Expansion Campaign: by the year 2025, we want to generate sufficient green electricity to cover Munich’s entire consumption. This will put Munich on the map as the first city of over a million inhabitants to have achieved this goal!"
The wind farm is expected to boost Wales’ economy.
Image:Offshore wind farm Gwynt y Môr. Photo: courtesy of Siemens AG.
