VIDEO: Anholt Offshore Wind Farm Construction

January 21, 2014

DONG Energy has constructed the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, which is one of the largest construction projects in Denmark.

The wind farm site is approx. 20km long and approx. 5km wide and covers an area four times the size of the island of Anholt. More than 100 vessels were involved in the construction, and more than 3,000 people have been working offshore at the construction site.

Throughout the entire construction period, a camera crew followed the work on erecting the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm. This resulted in a 22-minute long film. The film offers some insight into the extensive work carried out in and around the Kattegat.

The Anholt Offshore Wind Farm project was carried out under heavy time pressure. It took only three years from the concession was awarded until the entire wind farm was in operation, and the installation took place over the course of two winters and one summer, which means that the weather conditions often put strains on the equipment and the staff.

This film documents the exciting and challenging process, it has been to construct a wind power plant at sea, and the many different tasks that have been solved through a good and close cooperation between suppliers, partners and the project team.

Offshore WIND staff, January 21, 2014; Image: dongenergy