Featuring 80 Siemens SWT-3.6-120 wind turbines of 3.6MW each, the €1bn ($1.3bn) Amrumbank West facility is designed to produce clean electricity required to meet the needs of 300,000 households.
The wind power plant is expected to reduce more than 740,000 tons of carbon emissions per year.
Power generated from the wind farm will be transferred to the 690MW HelWin2 offshore converter station through 8km of cables. The power will then be transferred to a landing point near Bussum through an 85km subsea cable.
The company started offshore construction in January 2014 while the first turbine commenced power generation in May 2015.
Siemens will be responsible for the maintenance of the turbines installed at the Amrumbank West farm, for the first five years.
The commissioning follows completion of 219MW Humber Gateway offshore wind farm by E.ON in the UK North Sea earlier this year.
E.ON management board member Bernhard Reutersberg said: "We’ve commissioned two large offshore wind farms – Amrumbank West and Humber Gateway off the U.K. coast – in just one year."
The two wind farms are expected to supply power to about 470,000 households while reducing 1.3 million tons of CO2 emissions annually.
In May, E.ON announced its plan to build the 400MW Rampion project off the south coast of England with construction planned to commence in January 2016.
E.ON has charted turbine installation vessel, MPI Discovery, for several years to support Amrumbank West and other offshore projects.
Image: The 288MW Amrumbank West wind farm features Siemens-built turbines. Photo: courtesy of Siemens.
