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RWE approves €1bn for Germany's Nordsee Ost offshore project

RWE Innogy, the renewables wing of German utility RWE, has approved a €1bn ($1.45bn) investment to build the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm, which will be one of Germany’s first upon its completion in 2013.

11 January 2010 17:24 GMT Updated 26 September 2016 14:51 GMT

By Karl Stromsta

The 295-megawatt (MW) Nordsee Ost project will be installed using RWE’s own construction vessel, currently being built for around €100m by Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. RWE has the option to purchase two more such vessels under a deal inked in December 2009.

Nordsee Ost will also be the first major European offshore wind farm to utilise REpower’s 6M turbines, rated at 6.15MW

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RWE approves €1bn for Germany's Nordsee Ost offshore project