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Arkona substation ready for installation

By: Tom Russell 02/03/2018 E.ON

General Substations Windfarms

STX France has completed and handed over the offshore substation for the Arkona offshore wind farm to project partners E.ON, Statoil and 50Hertz. The 4000 ton topside and 1,000 ton jacket where manufactured by STX France at is facility in Saint Nazaire, France.

The construction of the substation and jacket foundation kicked off in July 2015 and required 500,000 working hours to complete. The substation will depart for the German wind farm site mid-March and the journey is expected to take two weeks. It will be installed in waters depths up to 30m.

The Arkona project is located 35km northeast of the island of Rügen. The wind farm will have a capacity of 385MW and is expected to be capable of supplying up to 400,000 households with renewable energy from 2019 onwards.

Investment in the project amounts to €1.2bn and it is a joint venture between E.ON and the Norwegian energy company Statoil. Transmission system operator 50Hertz is responsible for the transmission of electricity from the project site to the onshore grid. The three companies will jointly use the platform.

Construction of the Arkona offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea is progressing ahead of scheduled according project developers, E.ON. Production of the Siemens Gamesa SWT-6.0-154 turbines is underway with A2SEA's SEA CHALLENGER is lined up to install the turbines.

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