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DanTysk is a 288 HVDC platform SylWin alpha is complete
''Offshore Wind Industry'', 28 July 2014. Accessed: 5 January 2015. A DKK 375 million accommodation platform for 50 people is being built to service both DanTysk and Sandbank, inspired by Poseidon at
Vattenfall bygger verdens største beboelsesplatform ved havmøllepark
(in Danish) '' Ing.dk'', 14 January 2015. Accessed: 14 January 2015.Nilsen, Jannicke.
Vattenfall is building the world's largest residential platform for offshore wind (in Norwegian)In English
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DanTysk is a 288 megawatt
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(MW) offshore wind farm
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in the North Sea
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west of the island Sylt
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, in the German
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EEZ
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at the border to Denmark
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. The wind farm operates 80 Siemens Wind Power
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's SWT-3.6-120 turbines with a capacity of 3.6 MW each.
The project's estimated cost was $900 million. The windfarm is sited in water depths of . The turbines were kept warm and healthy with diesel generators for 6 months before onshore cabling was fixed. The farm sent first power to shore in December 2014.
Initially the project was developed by ''Geo Gesellschaft für Energie und Ökologie''. The project was purchased by Vattenfall in 2007. In 2010, Vattenfall sold 49% stake in the project to Stadtwerke München
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The SylWin transformer platform connects the power from DanTysk, Butendiek and Sandbank offshore wind farm to shore.''Offshore Wind Industry'', 28 July 2014. Accessed: 5 January 2015.
Horns Rev 2
Horns Rev is an offshore wind farm in Danish waters in the North Sea.
The wind farm was built in three phases, the first coming online in 2002, the second in 2009 and the third in 2019.
Horns Rev 1, the first phase, was the first large-scale o ...
.Wittrup, SanneVattenfall bygger verdens største beboelsesplatform ved havmøllepark
(in Danish) '' Ing.dk'', 14 January 2015. Accessed: 14 January 2015.Nilsen, Jannicke.
Vattenfall is building the world's largest residential platform for offshore wind (in Norwegian)
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Teknisk Ukeblad
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'', 15 January 2015. Accessed: 22 January 2015.See also
*Wind power in Germany
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*List of offshore wind farms
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*{{official, dantysk.com Wind farms in Germany Offshore wind farms in the North Sea 2014 establishments in Germany Energy infrastructure completed in 2014