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DanTysk Offshore Wind GmbH has agreed upon an integral part of their offshore rescue concept contract. The two joint venture partners, Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München, have commissioned DRF Air Rescue for emergency medical care and rescue of injured personnel from the DanTysk construction site. Medically and technically specially equipped helicopter type BK 117 with wind […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection
Vattenfall has issued a tender for inter-array cable replacement at the DanTysk offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The tender also concerns cable protection system (CPS) replacement, including the design, supply and installation of CPS and CPS stabilization. Vattenfall said it had conducted ROV surveys at the DanTysk site revealing a variety of […]
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Vattenfall installed its 1000th wind turbine last week at DanTysk offshore wind farm situated west of the island of Sylt. The Siemens 3.6 MW wind turbine was installed at the location DT19, within the 70 square kilometres area covered by the wind farm. Vattenfall currently operates 944 wind turbines in five countries from its surveillance […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update
Deutsche Windtechnik and Vattenfall have extended the contract for maintenance of all steel structures at the DanTysk offshore wind farm, and have now also thrown the recently inaugurated Sandbank offshore wind farm into the deal.
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Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Last week, Visser & Smit Marine Contracting B.V. (VSMC) laid the last cable in the southern part of the Dan Tysk offshore wind farm site, meaning that half of the 80 wind turbines are ready to be connected to the offshore substation. VSMC’s work on the inter-array cable installation at the offshore wind farm continues […]
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Vattenfall and SWM officially opened the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind farm today. The ceremony, held in Hamburg, was attended by German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Sigmar Gabriel, Swedish Minister for Enterprise and Innovation Mikael Damberg, Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz and Torsten Albig, Prime Minister of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, joined Magnus Hall, President and CEO of […]
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Technology, Wind Farm Update
L-3 SAM Electronics, together with its associated L-3 companies, has announced that it has been awarded a major contract for the supply and installation of the electrical system package on DanTysk accommodation platform. The platform is being built in Kiel, Germany, by Nobiskrug of Rendsburg as part of the DanTysk offshore wind farm project jointly […]
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DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm is back on schedule – albeit a revised schedule – with more than half of its 80 wind turbines installed. Gunnar Groebler, Head of the Business Unit Renewables at Vattenfall’s Continental/UK regional organisation, reflects on progress and outlines the company’s view as to whether offshore wind will remain an important strategic […]
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Business & Finance, Grid Connection
Vattenfall and the Munich municipal utility Stadtwerke München (SWM) have signed an agreement to form a joint venture for realisation of the offshore wind power project DanTysk. DanTysk offshore wind farm will be constructed 70 kilometres west of the island of Sylt with 80 turbines on 70 square kilometres with water depths up to 30 […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Vessels
Denmark-based companies Offshore Windservice A/S and C-Bed I ApS have won EU tenders to provide support vessels during operations and maintenance (O&M) services at the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. Both tenders were carried out by DanTysk Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH & Co. KG. The offshore wind farms are […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
VSMC, a strategic joint venture of VolkerWessels and Boskalis, has been awarded a € 90 million contract by Sandbank Offshore Windfarm GmbH (a joint venture of energy companies Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München). The scope of work for VSMC includes cable supply, CPS, installation, post lay burial and termination & testing of 76 infield cables. Project […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update
From 2014 onwards, quiet rooms with a shower, internet access and a TV will make everyday life more comfortable for the members of the DanTysk Wind Farm maintenance team – right in the middle of the harsh North Sea. Vattenfall and the Stadtwerke Munich have now commissioned the Schleswig-Holstein based company Nobiskrug, whose headquarters is […]
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Since the construction on Vattenfall’s DanTysk offshore wind farm kicked off at the beginning of this month, the site has been crowded with vessels, massive components and workers. Vattenfall’s Holger Grubel wrote an update on the company’s blog, saying that the heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov, accompanied by tug boats and anchor handling tugs, is […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
World Marine Offshore announces that it has been awarded one boat contract by Vattenfall, one of the Major Energy suppliers in Northen Europe, to provide Crew Transfer Vessels (CTV) to DanTysk Windpark. The Contract has been awarded for 19 Months with possibility for extension. Vattenfall has chosen to take the first of four 24m WS […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Vessels
Vattenfall has issued a call for competition seeking crew transfer vessel (CTV) services for the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany. The selected party will be in charge of the 2021 spring and summer service campaigns at the two wind farms. The CTV will be based in the Esbjerg harbor in Denmark. It […]
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DanTysk offshore wind farm, situated west of the island of Sylt and directly on the German-Danish border, recently shook under the strength of storm “Christian” that swept through the North Sea. Wind measurements of 44.3 m/s (160km/h) were recorded on board the foundation installation vessel – the Seafox 5, at 2:10 pm on October 29, […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update
Vattenfall is looking for a contractor who will carry out paint repair works on transition pieces (TPs) of DanTysk offshore wind turbines. The work includes surface preparation and painting of all the damaged areas on each of the foundation structures (TPs). Also, the contractor shall deliver the required consumables, paint, sandpaper etc. “It is essential that […]
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Vattenfall’s German offshore project DanTysk has signed a contract on a vessel for the transportation and installation of 80 wind turbines. The installation vessel, Pacific Orca, is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea to be delivered in 2012. Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München will build the DanTysk offshore wind farm as a joint […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance
DanTysk Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH & Co. KG has issued a tender for operations and maintenance (O&M) services for the two offshore wind farms in Germany. DanTysk and Sandbank will both come under a new joint operating strategy. Based on this, a subsequent list of annual O&M services for the wind turbines and foundations are required to […]
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The yellow TP’s (transition pieces) stand tall on the quayside in Esbjerg and lying right next to them is the monopiles weighing 550 tons. All TP’s and monopiles was transported on a barge from Vlissingen, Holland to Esbjerg where Blue Water will handle the loading of components onto the installation vessel. Blue Water Shipping has […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update
Vattenfall is inviting bids for the contract at its DanTysk wind farm located in the German part of the North Sea, within the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The contract will comprise the inspection, maintenance and repair services for the steel structures above water with an option for the steel structures below the water. The […]
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The first transition piece (TP) was grouted at the DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm on location DT01 on the 1st of May. Since the Seafox 5 first entered the DanTysk field it has been too cold for the installation of the TPs. Monopiles have been left standing, just barely visible above the waters surface. For the installation of the TPs, grout (concrete) has […]
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Yesterday, the last of total 80 turbines was installed at the DanTysk offshore project. The offshore wind farm, erected by Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM), will have a production capacity equivalent to the consumption of up to 400,000 households. The wind farm, erected by Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM) 70 km west of the island of Sylt, […]
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Utiligensia has been awarded a further contract by Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd, for the provision of interim commercial support to the Valuation & LEC Management team. The work comprises finanical modelling, analysis and valuation services to German and UK offshore wind projects during development and construction phases. This includes the DanTysk offshore wind farm and Kentish Flats Extension. DanTysk is […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update
As announced on December 13, all of the 80 foundations for the DanTysk offshore wind farm are now installed. This was achieved by using the largest self-propelled installation jack-up vessel of the Workfox fleet, the Seafox 5. The vessel successfully completed the installation of 80 monopiles and transition pieces for the DanTysk offshore wind farm, […]
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Business & Finance, Grid Connection
Niels Winther supports the ongoing preparations for the DanTysk inter-array cable installation work with agency and port logistics. Planning and cable installation are carried out by Visser & Smit Marine Contracting (VSMC). Most recently, the barge Stemat 87 arrived at the Danish port of Esbjerg. The barge carried cables from Norway, where they are being […]
