Iberdrola installs first foundation for Baltic Eagle wind farm
Power Engineering International
Posted on: 26 April 2023
Iberdrola successfully installed the first foundation for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm on the seabed| following the installation of the offshore substation in February.
Iberdrola successfully installed the first foundation for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm on the seabed, following the installation of the offshore substation in February.
The company is now entering the core stage of the Baltic Eagle construction phase.
Currently, the heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen is working off the island of Rügen in the offshore wind farm, which is located 30 kilometers northeast of the German island of Rügen and covers a 40 square kilometer area.
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On the basis of a special feeder concept, the monopiles of the Rostock-based company EEW SPC are towed from the Port of Rostock out to the construction site and positioned upright by the gripper. The steel piles with a diameter of between 8.75 and 9 meters and a length of between 75 and 90 are then driven into the seabed.
Transportation of the transition pieces to the storage site in the Port of Mukran also began at the beginning of March. These transition pieces connect the monopile with the wind turbine and will be deployed during the second quarter of 2023. The laying of the inter-array cables is then planned for later in 2023.
"We are pleased to be working with many experienced and professional partners on such a complex offshore project – such as EEW SPC, Windar and VanOord in this respect," said Iris Stempfle, managing director of Iberdrola Renovables Germany.
According to Stempfle, Iberdrola is fully on schedule with the construction of Baltic Eagle.
With a production capacity of 476MW, the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm will supply approximately 475,000 homes while reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 800,000 tons per year.
The farm is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of 2024. Baltic Eagle is the second of Iberdrola's three large-scale projects in Germany, along with Wikinger (350MW, in operation) and Windanker (300MW, in planning).
