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On 18 December 2002, the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) issued the SeeAnlV Genehmigungsbescheid to OSB Offshore-Bürger-Windpark Butendiek GmbH & Co. KG (a Husum-based citizen-investor project company) for the construction and operation of the Butendiek offshore wind farm in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (AWZ) of the North Sea, approximately 35 km west of Sylt off the northern Schleswig-Holstein coast. The approval covered 80 turbines and was filed 26 September 2000. Butendiek was the second German offshore wind farm consented by BSH (after alpha ventus). Construction was significantly delayed by financing problems after Scottish and Southern Energy/Airtricity exited the project in 2009 (drawn to better UK offshore subsidies); WPD took over the project in 2012/2013 and financing closed in February 2013. The as-built project comprises 80 Siemens SWT-3.6-120 turbines (288 MW) on monopile foundations; first power was exported in early February 2015 and full commissioning followed in August 2015 with the formal opening in Husum on 8 September 2015.