The
Spanish
utility
giant
will
pay
Gardline
and
GEO
a
total
of
€18m
($22m)
to
carry
out
the
survey
work
at
the
34
sq
km
site
of
the
80-turbine
development
in
the
German
Baltic.
The
companies
will
use
specially-designed
vessels
to
take
stratigraphic
samples
of
sedimentary
and
metamorphic
rocks,
requiring
63-metre
boreholes
to
be
drilled.
They
will
also
conduct
seismic
surveys
using
sound
waves
to
determine
the
structure
of
the
terrain,
says
Iberdrola.
The
data
will
be
used
to
determine
foundation
design
for
the
€1.6bn
Wikinger
development
–
which
at…