DEME will install all of the monopile foundations for the turbines and the foundations for the transformer module on the Albatros windfarm

DEMEs subsidiary GeoSea is to install the foundations for EnBW's Albatros offshore windfarm.

Having completed the design of the foundations for the project, GeoSea has now received a notice to proceed for fabrication and installation of 16 foundations and the offshore transformer module for the offshore windfarm, for which GeoSea is Siemens enginering, procurement, construction and installation partner. Thepartnership enables Siemens to provide a full-scope project (offshore wind turbines and offshore transformer module includingfoundations) to EnBW.

The Albatros offshore windfarm is in the North Seain the immediate vicinity of EnBW's Hohe See and He Dreiht windfamrs, approximately 90km north of the island of Borkum. The windfarm will be built in water depths of up to 40mand will have 16 Siemens SWT-7.0-154 turbines with a total installed capacity of 112 megawatts.

The project will make usse of monopiles. Fabrication of the foundations is expected to take place in 2017/2018;offshore installation will take place in 2018 together with the installation of the Hohe See offshore windfarm.

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DEME subsidiary to install foundations on Albatross offshore windfarm - Offshore Wind Journal