“Allow for (sufficient) time if you plan to build a wind park inthat region,” Christiansen told a conference on offshore wind energy in Hamburg.

Water depths of between 23- and 44-metres as well as a trickygeology are particularly challenging, Christiansen said.

Next to sand and sedimentary till formed in the melting process ofthe ice-age glaciers, foundations have to fight their way through extensivelayers of chalk below the Baltic's seabed.