Company also signs first maintenance contracts for North Sea power lines
Siemens has clinched an order to supply 80 wind turbines for the Dan Tysk wind farm off Germany’s North Sea coast. With a total capacity of 288 megawatts, the farm will begin supplying clean electricity to 500,000 German households in 2014. Dan Tysk Offshore Wind GmbH, in which Vattenfall Europe has a 51 percent stake and the Stadtwerke München a 49 percent stake, is the customer. “Siemens is No. 1 worldwide in the offshore wind business. This order will make us the leader in Germany, too,” said Wolfgang Dehen, member of Siemens’ Managing Board and CEO of the company’s Energy Sector. Siemens is also launching a completely new business in Germany: the maintenance of grid connections between the mainland and wind farms on the high seas. The company has received its first order from grid operator TenneT to provide services for the mainland connections of two North Sea wind farms. On the North Sea coast and in Hamburg, Germany, Siemens also wants to create up to 100 new jobs in the wind power business.