In Depth: Time is tight as Dong ramps up offshore at Anholt

Dong chief executive Anders Eldrup at Grenaa Harbour, which will be the company's operations and maintenance base for Anholt

Dong Energy is ramping up construction of its offshore wind portfolio, starting building work on the 400MW Anholt project in Denmark and the UK’s 389MW West of Duddon Sands.

Not long after that, it will begin on Germany’s 320MW Borkum Riffgrund.

The Danish developer sees Anholt as a test of how far it has got in terms of applying its growing know-how in offshore pro­jects and streamlining installation, given the tight time frame set out in its concession from the Danish government.

“The project is quite challenging,” Dong Renew­ables vice-president­ Christina Grumstrup tells Recharge. “Under the terms of the agreement, we can only use 88sq km of the total area, and parts of the seabed are too soft, so you…

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