Van Oord heavy lift vessel Svanen has installed the first monopile foundation at Vattenfall’s 605MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea 15-40km off Denmark.
Foundation installation is expected to run into the autumn this year with the erection of turbines starting in 2021.
Vattenfall said that development of Kriegers Flak is on schedule to be in full operation by the end of 2021, at the latest, despite restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic.
During pile driving a double curtain of bubbles is being deployed around each foundation to mitigate noise as a safeguard for marine mammals.
Vattenfall in Denmark country manager Jacob Norgaard Andersen and Vattenfall head of offshore wind Catrin Jung said: “The foundation represents the first visual offshore part of the wind farm itself.
“It’s a milestone in the development of this great project and Vattenfall’s journey towards enabling fossil-free living.”
The foundations have been manufactured by EEW-SPC in Rostock and will support the 8.4MW Siemens Gamesa turbines.