Vattenfall purchased the 288MW project – expected to cost more than €1bn ($1.4bn) – from German developer Geo Gesselschaft für Energie und Okologie in 2007. In July it sold a 49% stake to Stadtwerke Munchen, an increasingly ambitious player in the renewables sector.

Last week Vattenfall announced it has dropped plans to add a 150MW extension to its recently completed 300MW Thanet wind farm, off the coast of England.

DanTysk