French-owned Areva Multibrid handled the installation of the 700-tonnes tripods, piling them into place in some 30 metres of water using the Odin jack-up barge. The tripods, the first to be used as foundations for an offshore wind farm, stand 45 meters high.
Construction of the matching towers and M5000 turbines continues at Areva-subsidiary Multibrid’s Bremerhaven facility.
“The construction of the wind farm is currently making good progress and is making a valuable contribution to our learning curve,” says Wilfried Hube, overall project leader of Alpha Ventus, a joint undertaking by the companies EWE, E.ON
