German utility E.ON at the 385MW Arkona offshore project in the German Baltic Sea for the first time is using an innovative corrosion protection technology that it claims will reduce metal deposits from corrosion during the wind farms 25-year operating life by several hundred tonnes.

Norwegian oil company Statoil owns a 50% participation in Arkona.

E.ON has developed the environmentally-friendly Thermal Spray Aluminium (TSA) process for coating of monopile foundations with engineers Rambøll Germany in coordination with the competent authorities.