The RWE offshore wind farm "Kaskasi" has gone into operation off Helgoland. From 2028, it will also supply the food retailers Lidl and Kaufland with green electricity. The competitor Rewe has already secured wind power from the North Sea some time ago. The food giant Rewe has already contractually secured wind power from the North Sea, now the Schwarz Group's competitors Lidl and Kaufland are following suit. In order to achieve their climate protection targets, the two supermarket chains have signed a long-term electricity supply agreement with RWE Supply & Trading for around 250 million kilowatt hours per year from 2028. The offshore wind farm "Kaskasi" in the German North Sea, which officially started regular operation at the end of March, is to generate this electricity. The Schwarz Group's trading divisions were thus the first corporate customers to conclude a long-term supply contract for green electricity from the wind farm off Helgoland, the Schwarz Group announced on Wednesday. The supply contract is for ten years. The "Kaskasi" wind farm is located about 35 kilometers off the coast of Helgoland and has 38 wind turbines with an installed capacity of 342 megawatts. Since the end of 2022, all plants have been feeding green electricity into the grid. The Schwarz Group wants to reduce CO2030 emissions by around 55 percent by 2. In addition to the increasing consumption of environmentally friendly electricity, a climate-friendly, energy-efficient construction of branches, administrative buildings and logistics centers should also contribute to this.
