ESG to Build Transport System for EnBw Baltic 2 Rotor Blades

ESG Edelstahl und Umwelttechnik Stralsund GmbH will begin the construction of a transport structure intended for rotor blades of offshore wind turbines for EnBW Baltic 2 GmbH in April 2014.

Specialist company ESG will build the so-called “Blade Rack System” at the Volkswerft shipyard in Stralsund within two months. The system will then be mounted on a construction vessel. The steel structure will be used for safe storage of the rotor blades for EnBW Baltic 2 wind turbines during transport to the installation site at sea.

The system consists of two parts, the “Root End Blade Rack” and “Tip End Blade Rack”. The transport structure can accommodate a total of 18 blades.

ESGis also responsible for the construction of a prototype of Gicons’s Floating offshore foundation (GICON ®-SOF), and its production will begin after the completion of “Blade Rack System” in July2014, at the Volkswerft shipyard.

Offshore WIND Staff, March 31, 2014; Image: ESG