Offshore wind farms within the German and Dutch North Sea generated over 30 TWh of renewable energy, in response to the German-Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT.
The TSO transmitted round 19.24 TWh of wind vitality from the German North Sea to land in 2023 and one other 11.54 TWh entered the Netherlands, which is a rise in comparison with 2022’s 7.91 TWh.
The rise is primarily because of the commissioning of the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore grid connection system by TenneT and the corresponding growth of offshore wind farms in 2023, in response to the TSO.
TenneT’s transmission capability within the Dutch North Sea elevated to 4,666 MW whereas the onshore wind vitality capability within the Netherlands was 6,854 MW within the earlier yr, which generated 7.96 TWh of wind vitality (the earlier yr was 5.14 TWh).
In Germany, the annual outcome for 2023 was round 9 per cent beneath the earlier yr’s determine of 21.13 TWh, TenneT mentioned.
As a result of a simultaneous enhance in onshore wind energy technology, the full end in Germany in 2023 was 148.97 TWh (the earlier yr 122.79 TWh), in response to the TSO.
At round 13 per cent, the share of North Sea electrical energy in 2023 was round 4 per cent decrease than within the earlier yr (17.2 per cent). For the reason that completion of the thirteenth offshore grid connection (DolWin6) in September 2023, TenneT’s offshore transmission capability within the German North Sea has elevated to eight,032 MW (the earlier yr was 7,132 MW).
As of 31 December 2023, the full put in offshore wind capability within the German North Sea reached 7,106 MW (earlier yr: 7,036 MW), whereas within the Dutch North Sea it was 5,622 MW (earlier yr: 3,220 MW).
The put in capability of wind generators within the German Baltic Sea totalled 1,352 MW and so they generated 4.17 TWh in 2023 (earlier yr: 3.62 TWh), which means that Germany’s complete offshore yield final yr was 23.41 TWh (together with 19.24 TWh within the North Sea).
“Because of the nonetheless quite a few congestions within the onshore electrical energy grid, the massive wind farms within the North Sea should be shut down increasingly more incessantly as a result of there are hardly any massive typical energy crops within the north that could possibly be throttled as a substitute. In consequence, the related redispatch slows down the technology of offshore wind energy,” mentioned Tim Meyerjürgens, TenneT COO.
“This not solely impacts the quantity of electrical energy fed into the grid, but additionally impacts its value growth. This exhibits that Germany should proceed to speed up the growth of the grid and the most important electrical energy highways in order that the potential of the North Sea as a wind energy plant for Germany and Europe could be utilised effectively as quickly as doable.”
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