Environmental impact assessment for the offshore windfarm “NÖRDLICHER GRUND”
The contractor for this project is GEO Gesellschaft für Energie und Oekologie mbH together with SYNERGIS GmbH. The scheduled location in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ ) of the North Sea is approx. 86 km WNW of Sylt and approx. 108 km from Helgoland. The site has no intersection with protected areas. The Federal Government (2002) regards this marine area as possibly suitable for windenergy production and has started a formal planning procedure to dedicate the area to this usage. The formal planning procedures started with the scoping conference in November 2002. 87 offshore wind energy converters with an overall performance of 360 MW are planned as a first pilot step. The energy yield of the pilot phase is 1,693,000 MWh, which corresponds to the annual energy requirement of approx. 500,000 average households. OECOS GmbH advised the clients at their coordination of the necessary environmental surveys and summarized the specific investigation results in general impact assessment reports.