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E.ON: Amrumbank West project on course
Offshore transformer station
successfully installed
May 02, 2014 + + + E.ON’s construction of
Amrumbank West wind farm in the North Sea reached an important milestone.
The offshore transformer station is now in place. The largest single
technical component of the billion-euro project weighs approximately 3,000
metric tons. It consists of a foundation anchored to the seafloor and a
topside structure housing transformers and electrical switching equipment.
Rising above the unmanned station, which is located in the middle of
the wind farm’s construction site, is a helipad 42 standing meters above
the surface of the sea. E.ON developed special standards for design and
operational safety to enable the station to withstand extreme marine
weather conditions. In optimizing the design, E.ON drew on its experience
from previous offshore projects, thereby enabling it to achieve further
cost reductions for offshore technology. The transformer station was
installed on time and on budget.
“From planning to installation,
this was a significant engineering achievement, one that affirms our
position as a global leader in offshore wind,” says Eckhardt Rümmler, head
of E.ON’s generation business. At the same time, the successful
installation is a key prerequisite for Amrumbank West to be connected to
the mainland energy supply system on schedule.
When the wind farm
is operational, the transformer station will gather the electricity
generated by the 80 turbines and transmit it to a converter station, from
where it will be transported 100 kilometers to the mainland. The
transformer station will be operated from the wind farm’s service station
on Helgoland; it will be monitored and controlled from E.ON’s Offshore
Marine Coordination Center in Hamburg.
Amrumbank West will extend
over 32 square kilometers. Its 80 technologically advanced 3.6 megawatt
turbines will give it a total capacity of 288 megawatts, enough to power
300,000 households. Amrumbank West, which will displace more than 740,000
metric tons of carbon emissions annually, is scheduled to be completed and
to enter service in the autumn of 2015. Since 2007 E.ON has invested about
€9.5 billion in renewables and is currently the world’s third-largest
operator of offshore wind farms.
Source: E.ON
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