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On 13 June 2008, the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) issued the SeeAnlV Genehmigung to Prokon Nord Energiesysteme for the construction and operation of 80 wind turbines at the Trianel Windpark Borkum (formerly "Borkum West II") offshore wind farm in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (AWZ) of the North Sea, approximately 45 km north of Borkum on a 55.6 km² project area in water depths of 25-35 m. The application had been filed on 26 May 2006 (updated 15 November 2007). The Trianel stadtwerke cooperation acquired the project rights in 2009. Due to financing difficulties during the 2007 financial crisis, the project was split into two phases: Phase 1 (40 × Adwen AD 5-116, 200 MW on tripod foundations, operational 2015) and Phase 2 (32 × Senvion 6.3M152, 203.2 MW on monopile foundations, operational 3 July 2020 — the project record this event is attached to). This 2008 Genehmigung is the project-wide development consent that underlies BOTH phases; Phase 2 was further refined by a BSH amendment on 5 October 2016 changing the turbine type from Adwen AD 5-116 to the larger Senvion 6.3M152.