After finishing offshore construction and commissioning work, Ørsted and Nuveen Infrastructure's Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farm is now producing renewable energy to power what Ørsted claims is the equivalent of 250,000 households in Germany.
Final testing for the Gode Wind 3 Offshore Wind Farm, which is jointly owned by Ørsted and Nuveen Infrastructure, was completed on February 28, and the project is now fully commissioned.
The project is Ørsted’s fifth operational offshore wind farm in Germany, with an installed capacity of 253 MW. The offshore wind farm will be followed by the 913MW Borkum Riffgrund 3, for which the last wind turbine was installed in early January.
Ørsted said it can now supply the equivalent of approximately 1.6 million households in Germany with renewable electricity from offshore wind alone.
In August 2023, construction of Gode Wind 3 started at sea, when the first foundation was installed.
Gode Wind 3 consists of 23 wind turbines from Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, each with a capacity of 11 MW. Ørsted said the new generation of wind turbines offers up to 40 per cent higher annual energy yield compared to the 8MW wind turbine.
The electricity generated at Gode Wind 3 will be transmitted via the wind farm’s own offshore substation and a converter station by TenneT, the German transmission system operator (TSO), entering the extra-high voltage grid onshore in the German state of Lower Saxony.
Operations will continue to be managed from Ørsted’s hub at the port of Norden-Norddeich in Lower Saxony. For the electricity production at Gode Wind 3, Ørsted will now receive a weighted average price of €81 (US$88) per MWh.