The site is one of the three areas to be awarded that did not go through the preliminary site investigation, which is left to the project developer to undertake.
The other seven of the total ten sites Germany will auction off until 2029 are pre-investigated by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH).
Germany’s offshore wind targets are at least 40 GW of offshore wind in operation by 2035 and at least 70 GW by 2045.
According to BSH, which issued a new Site Development Plan with a few newly defined areas on 30 January, Germany can expect to have a total installed offshore wind capacity in 2034 of around 42.6 GW, including the newly defined areas, approved offshore wind farms and those under construction and the areas defined in the 2023 plan.
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