EnBW Looks for Monitoring Contractor for Duration of EnBW Baltic 2 Construction (Germany)

Karlsruhe based publicly traded electric utilities company, EnBW, is looking for contractor for monitoring during the construction of offshore wind farms ‘EnBW Baltic 2’, including all necessary logistical and technical services.

The scope of investigations are related to sediment and habitat structures, habitat use, hydrographic, benthos, fish, marine fauna (continual users and migration movements), marine and underwater noise emissions according to the BSH- Standard’s studies of the effects of offshore wind turbines on the marine environment.

About EnBW Windpark Baltic 2:

Project starts on 1.7.2012., and it’s due to be completed on 30.6.2014.

EnBW Baltic 2 is four times as big as EnBW Baltic 1 – and will generate six times as much electricity. That sets requirements regarding planning and logistics in every respect.

Wind farm is located in the Baltic Sea, 32 km north of the island of Rügen.

The depth of the sea varies between 23 and 44 meters. Depending on this depth, the installations are mounted either on steel piles, so-called monopiles (up to 35 meters deep) or steel-framework-structures, so-called jackets (starting from a depth of 35 meters).

With a yearly output of about 1.2 billion kWh EnBW’s Wind park Baltic 2 is able to provide electricity for about 340,000 households per year. By this, 900,000 tons CO2 can be saved.

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Offshore WIND staff, November 18, 2011; Image: EnBW