According to these contracts, the loans will be provided by KfW IPEX-Bank and the European Investment Bank (EIB) while 100% of the equity will come from wpd offshore GmbH.

Following Baltic 1 and Butendiek, Nordergründe will be the third offshore project to be built by wpd. In addition, it will be the first German offshore project where all the major elements of the project will be supplied and installed by manufacturers based in Germany (and with manufacturing in the North West of the country). As well as Senvion (turbines), the companies involved are Ambau (foundations), BVT (transformer substation), NSW (internal cabling) and Bilfinger (installation).

This comes as Germany looks to cement its position in the global offshore wind league table.

Accoding to wpd, the offshore construction work will begin in March 2016 and will be completed at the end of 2016 with connection to the grid and feed-in. The project comprising 18 turbines of type Senvion 6.2M126 will be constructed in depths of up to 10 metres within the 12 nautical mile zone in the German North Sea, and it will be situated approx. 15 kilometres north east of the island of Wangerooge.