Onshore wind · Germany
Borkum Riffgrund I
Operational312 MWChecked 6 October 2026
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 312 MW
- Status
- Operational (Operational as reported in 2021)
- Owner
- Borkum Riffgrund I Offshore Windpark A/S GmbH & Co. oHG
- Location
- , Germany
- First operating
- 2015
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Incidents at onshore wind farms in Germany
The register holds 19 incidents at onshore wind farms in Germany, 3 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
- Wind turbine on dike catches fire near Simonsberg
- Blade failure on Vestas 15MW turbine at He Dreiht offshore wind farm
- Two workers die after work basket fall at Birstein wind turbine, Germany
- Nordex turbine collapses at Herkentrup wind farm in Germany
- Fire destroys turbine nacelle at EnBW wind farm in Germany
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Source: Global Power Plant Database v1.3.0, World Resources Institute, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The dataset. This dataset was last updated in 2021; the site may have changed since. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.