Krieger's flat, located about 30 kilometers south of Trelleborg, is located in the economic zone between Sweden, Denmark and Germany.

Vattenfall has been planning a large wind farm here for a long time.

Now it has finally received the go-ahead from the government.

- It has been a complex process, says Annika Strandhäll.

- But I am glad that we have now been able to speed up the process.

Krieger's flat is located about 30 kilometers south of Trelleborg.

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Twenty percent of Skåne's consumption

According to Annika Strandhäll, the wind farm will have an annual capacity of 2.3–2.8 TWh.

- This corresponds to as much as 20 percent of Skåne's consumption today, or the annual consumption corresponding to 500,000 Swedish villas, she says.

Vattenfall writes on its website that Krieger's flatbed "may become the first modern offshore wind farm in Sweden."

Permit for higher wind turbines

On the Danish side, a wind turbine with 72 plants was completed in the summer of 2021, according to Vattenfall.

On the German side, a wind farm with 80 plants has been completed since 2015.

The government's green light, which is a change to previous permits, means that Vattenfall may build higher wind turbines than was originally intended.

The works may now have a total height of up to 280 meters instead of 170 meters.

According to Minister of Energy and Digitization Khashayar Farmanbar, this in turn means a more even electricity production.

- Now Krieger's flatbeds can be built with the latest generation of wind turbines, he says.

This is what it looked like when the Danish wind farm was inaugurated last year.

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Scandinavia's largest offshore wind farm inaugurated