Arkona Ahead of Schedule
Construction of the Arkona offshore windfarm in the German Baltic Sea is progressing at a fast pace. After the foundations, the 60 connecting pieces are now also prematurely installed. The transition pieces, each weighing 400 tons, were taken from the port of Mukran on Rügen into the construction site and placed on the foundations and bolted together. The project has thus also successfully completed the second major construction phase on the high seas.
Preparations for the next steps are also in full swing. At the French shipyard STX France, the transformer station, which will be operated jointly by the project partners E.ON and Statoil and the transmission grid operator 50Hertz, will be transported by sea from the French Atlantic Ocean to the Baltic Sea in spring. Once this platform has been installed, the turbines are connected to the substation. The 75km of submarine cables required for this have already been delivered from the Nexans plant in Hanover to the base port of Mukran Port in Sassnitz. At the same time, production of the 6MW turbines has begun at the Siemens plants.
The Arkona project is located 35km northeast of the island of Rügen. The windfarm will have a capacity of 385MW and will be able to supply up to 400,000 households with renewable energy from 2019 onwards. Arkona is a joint venture between E. ON and the Norwegian energy company Statoil.