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Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm

Exclusive economic zone of Germany in the North Sea, Germany

The 1819th largest power station in the world

288 MW · Capacity

Butendiek is an offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea. It is located 32 km off the island of Sylt, and 53 km from the mainland. The wind farm consists of 80 Siemens wind turbines with a capacity of 3.6 MW each, giving the farm a total capacity of 288 MW. Construction of the wind farm started in early 2014. The wind farm was completed in 2015. The SylWin transformer platform connects the power from DanTysk, Butendiek and Sandbank offshore wind farm to shore.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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