Alpha ventus (former known as Borkum West) is Germany's first offshore wind farm. It is situated in the North Sea 45 kilometres (28 mi) north of the island of Borkum. In 2011, the wind farm had the highest registered capacity factor of 50.8% of most European offshore wind farms. This was exceeded in 2012 with a capacity factor of 55%,[not in citation given] a global record.

The project team noted that the expected capacity factor of 42% was a considerable underestimation. 

•    1st German offshore wind farm

•    opened in 2010

•    a project by energy providers EWE, E.ON, Vattenfall

•    in year 2015: 242.176 Gigawatt hours

•    availability: 93,4%

•    from 2011 to 2015: 247.45 million kilowatt hours

•    total capacity: 60MW

•    source: alpha-ventus.de