Alstom SA said that it has won a contract from Trianel GmbH to build the 80 turbine Borkum West II wind farm offshore Germany and finish work by March 2012.

The facility, 45 kilometers offshore the island of Borkum, would use wind turbines each with a capacity of up to 5 MWs of power. Alstom's main subcontractor will be WeserWind GmbH Offshore Construction Georgsmarienhütte, located in Bremerhaven.

Alstom said that the company, based in Levallois Perret in France, won the contract to create the electrical system for the sea based wind farm's substation in 2008. The amendment includes the manufacturing and delivery of steel construction such as the project's support structures and component carriers.

Trianel signed a EUR 550.5 million finance agreement for the park in December 2010, the nation's first project financing deal for the offshore wind industry. The project will power 200,000 homes using turbines made by the wind energy unit of Areva SA.

As of September 2010, Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency had approved 26 wind farm projects, three in the Baltic Sea and 23 in the North Sea. That is about 1,850 turbines totaling 9.3 gigawatts in capacity.

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