Eon has started protecting all 60 steel foundations at its 385MW Arkona wind farm in the German Baltic Sea with new anti-corrosion coating.
The German group said it’s the first company to assemble the monopiles of an offshore wind park with the “environmentally friendly” technology.
As as first reported by subscriber-only reNEWS in June, Rostock company Krebs Korrosionsschutz is applying the coating to EEW-supplied 7.75-metre diameter monopiles.
The so-called Thermalius thermally-sprayed aluminium solution was developed by Eon along with engineers Rambøll Germany in coordination with the relevant authorities.
Eon said the coating will signficantly reduce metal corrosion during the project’s 25-year operating period, preventing hundreds of tons of deposits from entering the sea.
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Eon shields Arkona feet
Innovative anti-corrosion coating applied to monopiles at 385MW project
By EBS