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O2 Telefónica to Purchase Electrical energy from Iberdrola’s German Offshore Wind Farm


Iberdrola Deutschland and O2 Telefónica have signed a long-term energy buy settlement to produce renewable energy from the 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm within the German Baltic Sea.

Below the 15-year settlement, Iberdrola will provide 3,000 GWh of renewable power to O2 Telefónica from the Baltic Eagle offshore wind undertaking, beginning in 2025.

Iberdrola Deutschland mentioned that the power will energy round 8,000 of O2 Telefónica’s present 28,000 cell phone stations.

O2 Telefónica has set the purpose of decreasing power consumption per information quantity by 87 per cent by 2025 in comparison with 2015. The corporate can be aiming for internet zero emissions by 2040.

The Baltic Eagle undertaking is presently beneath development within the German Baltic Sea, northeast of the Rügen island off the Pomeranian coast, and is scheduled to be commissioned by the tip of 2024.

The offshore wind farm will comprise 50 Vestas 9.5 MW wind generators, put in on monopile foundations, and can be linked to the German high-voltage grid through the Ostwind 2 grid connection.

The set up of transition items (TPs) and inter-array cables on the undertaking’s offshore website was accomplished on the finish of final 12 months. The TPs have been put in in two campaigns with Van Oord utilising Brouwersgracht and Jumbo’s Fairplayer vessels to carry out the work.

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Scheduled to be absolutely operational by the tip of 2024, the 476 MW wind farm will provide roughly 475,000 households with renewable power whereas decreasing CO2 emissions by roughly 800,000 tonnes per 12 months.

Aside from the PPA signed with 02 Telefónica, Iberdrola additionally signed agreements with Switzerland-headquartered Holcim, Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, Amazon, and SHS – Stahl Holding Saar in 2023, with electrical energy to be sourced from Baltic Eagle.

The 476 MW undertaking is the second of three large-scale offshore wind farms Iberdrola has in Germany, alongside the 350 MW Wikinger and 300 MW Windanker.

Collectively, the three wind initiatives type the corporate’s so-called Baltic Hub, which could have a complete capability of greater than 1.1 GW by 2026 and account for an funding of about EUR 3.6 billion in whole.


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