REpower Systems AG has successfully erected two REpower 5M offshore wind turbines on the DEWI-OCC test field in Cuxhaven, Germany,?and taken them into operation.
The first completed turbine is for the utility EWE AG (Oldenburg, Niedersachsen), the second for the joint venture EWC Windpark Cuxhaven GmbH between E.ON Energy Projects GmbH (Munich) and Essent Wind Deutschland GmbH (Düsseldorf). Both companies want to test the use of the REpower 5M for offshore projects, after the way forward for developing offshore wind energy in Germany was established only a few weeks ago with the passing of the Infrastructure Act. The act eliminated key obstacles and removed a backlog of wind energy in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea which has been in place for years. One of the regulations is that energy companies must assume connection costs to the electricity grid for offshore wind energy.
