EnBW Offshore Service (EOS) at the beginning of 2017 took over the technical operations of the residential and transformer platform of the 400MW BARD Offshore 1 wind array in the North Sea, as the German utility pushes into the third-party supplier market for offshore services.

The EnBW unit has signed a three-year service agreement with the operator and owner of BARD 1, Ocean Breeze Energy, which is indirectly owned by Italian bank UniCredit.