Siemens will supply 80 wind turbines for the Dan Tysk wind farm off Germany’s North Sea coast. With a total capacity of 288 megawatts, the farm will begin supplying clean electricity to 500,000 German households in 2014. Dan Tysk Offshore Wind GmbH a 49 percent stake, is the customer. “Siemens is No. 1 worldwide in the offshore wind business. This order will make us the leader in Germany, too,” said Wolfgang Dehen, member of Siemens’ Managing Board and CEO of the company’s Energy Sector. Construction of the Dan Tysk wind farm, which will be located about 50 kilometers west of the island of Sylt, will begin in 2013 and is scheduled for completion by the spring of 2014. Siemens is contributing wind turbines, each with a capacity of 3.6 megawatts and a rotor diameter of 120 meters, as well as providing maintenance services. Edited by Constanze Schmitz
