Swedish-owned energy company buys North Sea wind field

Vattenfall Europe, the German arm of Swedish
electricity generator Vattenfall, said Tuesday it has bought rights
to build a wind farm in the North Sea for an undisclosed price, DPA reported.
The 600-square-kilometre Dan Tysk area, off Denmark and 70
kilometres north-west of the German island of Sylt, could accommodate
wind turbines able to generate at least 800 megawatts of electricity,
it said in Berlin.
The vendor was a project-development company, Energie und
Oekologie. Vattenfall Europe, one of Germany's big four utilities,
said a pilot project was planned on a 71-square-kilometre section of
the concession area.
No wind farms have been built yet off Germany's coasts.