Wind turbines in the North Sea off the German coast. (picture alliance/Ingo Wagner/dpa /archive)
Wind parks in the North Sea generated 8.17 terawatt hours for German consumers, up 5.5 per cent on the same period last year, grid operator Tennet said in Bayreuth on Wednesday.
The North Sea turbines produced more than 15 per cent of total wind-generated electricity in Germany, with a further 0.87 terawatt hours coming from the Baltic, an area that Tennet does not cover.
On March 31, the day with the highest output in the period, the North Sea wind parks generated 4,431 megawatts for the grid, equivalent to the output from five large nuclear power stations.
In the first half of 2017, wind power generation rose 50 per cent on the year. Tennet attributed the slowdown in growth to the fact that fewer wind parks were now coming online.
Capacity of some 660 megawatts remained unused, the company said, but the wind parks had yet to be put out to tender.
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