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E.ON strengthens its position as a global leader in offshore wind power
Construction begins on Amrumbank West wind farm in the North Sea
E.ON is further expanding its renewables business and has started
construction of Amrumbank West wind farm in the North Sea. The first
foundation was installed today 37 kilometer northwest of the island of
Helgoland.
Jan 15, 2014 + + + To help build Amrumbank West and other offshore
projects, E.ON has chartered the MPI Discovery, a self-elevating turbine
installation vessel or jackup rig, for several years. The ship is loaded
with material in Cuxhaven and proceeds to the deepwater site. It lowers
six legs on to the seabed and then raises itself hydraulically above the
surface of the sea, creating a stable platform for operating the ram and
cranes it uses to install foundations, towers, and turbines. The ram is
used to drive the 60-meter-long steel tubular monopile foundations roughly
30 meters into the seabed at water depths of up to 24 meters. The entire
foundation structure, which consists of the monopile and the transition
piece, weighs about 900 metric tons. E.ON is using a state-of-the-art
system to reduce water-borne noise during pile-driving.
Capital
expenditures on the project will total about EUR 1 billion. Amrumbank West is
another example of how E.ON is significantly reducing the costs of
building and operating offshore wind farms. "We're drawing on all the
expertise we've gathered from our offshore facilities in the United
Kingdom and Scandinavia and from the construction and operation of alpha
ventus in Germany, which was the world's first deepwater wind farm",
Eckhardt Rümmler, CEO of E.ON Climate & Renewables, said. He added that
E.ON wants to position itself as the cost leader in building and operating
large-scale offshore projects. "Offshore wind is on the road to becoming a
reliable and cost-effective source of electricity" Rümmler said.
"Amrumbank West will help take us significantly closer to this goal."
Amrumbank West will extend over 32 square kilometers, an area larger
than 4,700 soccer fields. Its 80 technologically advanced 3.6 megawatt
turbines will give it a total capacity of 288 megawatts, enough to power
300,000 households. Amrumbank West, which will displace more than 740,000
metric tons of carbon emissions annually, is scheduled to be completed and
to enter service in the late summer of 2015.
Since 2006, E.ON has
invested just under EUR 9 billion in renewables and is currently the world's
third-largest operator of offshore wind farms.
Source: E.ON Climate & Renewables
www.eon.com/renewables
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