EnBW inaugurates He Dreiht — Germany’s largest offshore wind farm at 960 MW.

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg and partners Allianz Global Investors (on behalf of Allianz entities), AIP Management and Norges Bank Investment Management inaugurated the He Dreiht offshore wind farm on Thursday, 17 September 2026, in the presence of Federal Environment Minister Carsten Schneider, according to EnBW’s press release and Power Technology’s same-week report, both opened for this pack. With 64 turbines and 960 megawatts of installed output, EnBW and Power Technology describe He Dreiht as Germany’s largest offshore wind farm. Soft FLAG: “Germany’s largest” is EnBW/Power Technology comparative framing at inauguration.

The mechanism is large-rotor offshore generation tied to shore by TenneT. Each Vestas V236-15.0 MW machine has a 236-metre rotor diameter and a 142-metre hub height; EnBW says one rotor revolution sweeps about 44,000 square metres — framed as six football fields — and that a single rotation can supply the equivalent of four households for a day. Soft FLAG: household-equivalence and football-field metaphors are EnBW communications framing. The farm sits about 85 kilometres northwest of Borkum and 110 kilometres west of Heligoland. Construction began in May 2024; at peak more than 500 people and more than 60 ships worked the site, coordinated from EnBW’s Hamburg offshore office. Foundations — steel pipes nine metres in diameter and 70 metres long — were manufactured in Germany; connecting elements came from Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Poland; components shipped via Esbjerg and Eemshaven. TenneT connects the farm via an offshore platform and two submarine cables.

Ownership and money, as EnBW states them: EnBW holds 50.1 percent through a project company; the Allianz/AIP/NBIM consortium holds 49.9 percent. Investment is around €2.4 billion. The project was awarded in Germany’s first offshore auction round in 2017 with no entitlement to state funding and is financed through long-term power purchase agreements. Named offtakers listed by EnBW include Evonik, Google, Telekom subsidiary PASM, Fraport, Bosch, Salzgitter, SHS Stahl-Holding Saar, Deutsche Bahn and DHL Group. Soft FLAG: EnBW’s line that the farm can cover the annual electricity needs of the equivalent of around 1.1 million households is company equivalence framing. Soft FLAG: PASM’s supplementary quote that it secured approximately 100 MW under a 15-year PPA for Deutsche Telekom is that partner’s figure via EnBW’s supplemental quotes block.

Commissioning status: EnBW says the farm is fully built and that turbines are being connected, tested and started one by one; the first turbines are already feeding the grid, with the others to follow; full operation is expected in the coming months. Soft FLAG: “coming months” full-ops timing is EnBW’s current-progress estimate, not a fixed COD date. Georg Stamatelopoulos, EnBW chairman, called He Dreiht the company’s largest single investment in renewables. Henrik Andersen, Vestas Group President and CEO, is quoted on Europe’s industrial capability to deliver offshore wind at scale. Soft FLAG: next EnBW offshore projects named in the same release — Dreekant (1 GW) in the German North Sea and Morven (2.9 GW) in Scotland — are pipeline colour, not He Dreiht load-bearing.

What to watch without mood: dated notices that all 64 turbines have completed staged commissioning; any TenneT or EnBW publication of delivered megawatt-hours after full ops; progress notes on Dreekant and Morven only as separate projects.

Floor: He Dreiht inaugurated 17 Sep — 960 MW, 64× Vestas V236-15 MW; ~€2.4bn; no state funding, long-term PPAs; first turbines on grid; full ops expected in coming months (EnBW).