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Offshore specialists make progress on major German wind farm
14 December 2023
Renewable energy specialist 脴rsted and marine infrastructure company Jan De Nul Group have completed the installation of the first foundation for the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm.
Jan De Nul鈥檚 heavy-lift vessel Les Aliz茅s installing the first monopile at the Borkum Riffgund 3 offshore wind farm. Photo: Jan De Nul
Located 53km off the island of Borkum, this project, with a capacity of 913MW, is set to become the largest wind farm in German waters.
Jan De Nul Group鈥檚 heavy-lift vessel, Les Aliz茅s, installed the first of 83 monopile foundations required for the wind farm.
The foundations 鈥� manufactured by Steelwind in Nordenham and Bladt Industries鈥� Lind酶 plant in Denmark 鈥� are up to 100m in length and weigh up 1,500 tonnes.
The Les Aliz茅s vessel recently completed the installation of 24 monopiles at the 253MW Gode Wind 3 project, before transitioning to Borkum Riffgrund 3.
Innovative design
The project is the first of 脴rsted鈥檚 German wind farms to be built without an offshore substation (OSS). Instead, the connection concept 鈥� developed in collaboration with transmission system operator TenneT 鈥� directly connects the wind turbines via 66kV export cables to the DolWin5 offshore converter platform.
The monopile foundations will support a new generation of offshore wind turbines (SG 11.0-200 DD), set to be installed next year.
Together, the two wind farms will contribute over 1.1GW to Germany鈥檚 offshore wind power capacity and almost double 脴rsted鈥檚 total installed capacity in Germany to approximately 2.5 GW.
Construction of both wind farms is expected to be completed in 2024 and 2025.
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