Nordic-based energy group Aneo has reached an agreement with RWE to take over the German company’s wind activities in Sweden, including the offshore wind farm Karehamn in the Baltic Sea. Closing is targeted for Q1 2026 once standard approvals are in place.
Under the deal, Norway-headquartered Aneo will take over RWE’s Swedish pipeline of onshore wind projects totalling 1.8 GW, onshore wind farms in operation providing 124 MW of capacity, a portion of RWE’s service activities for third-party onshore assets, and the teams responsible for project development, operations as well as activities offshore on these assets.
Offshore wind farm Karehamn lies in Swedish Baltic waters roughly 7,000 m from the coast near the town of Kårehamn. The 48 MW project uses 16 Vestas V112-3.0 MW turbines on gravity foundations in water up to 20.5 m deep.
The facility entered operation in October 2013 and is operated and maintained from RWE’s base at Kårehamn harbour on Öland.
In 2024, RWE and ARC marine installed 180 reef cubes at Karehamn within a pilot project looking at how man-made features around offshore wind projects in Baltic waters may enhance biodiversity. Monitoring of how marine life colonises the cubes at the site has continued up to this year.
