The consortium behind Germany’s first offshore wind farm has decided to decommission the 60 MW Alpha Ventus and is currently developing a concept for an environmentally friendly dismantling of the 15-year-old wind farm with relevant authorities.
The news about the Alpha Ventus consortium (EWE, RWE and Vattenfall) considering the next steps for the offshore wind farm, and decommissioning being one of the options, emerged earlier this year.
As some reports focused on dismantling Alpha Ventus after 15 years of service, and its subsidy period ending last year, EWE and RWE pointed out that the offshore wind farm was a test project and that decommissioning would not be carried out now but was part of the options planned while considering the offshore wind farm’s upcoming years before the end of its design lifetime.
