E.ON has now opened its new Kårehamn offshore wind farm in Sweden with the country’s Energy Minister, Anna-Karin Hatt, being present at the opening ceremony. The wind farm is located near the Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea in the Baltic Sea and has a capacity of 48MW. It costs 120 million euros to construct and consists of 16 Vestas V112 wind turbines, each having a capacity of three megawatts. The facility will generate enough electricity to power around 28,000 homes.
Kårehamn was built using a sophisticated installation vessel called the MPI Discovery which the company had commissioned specifically for the task of installing offshore wind farms. It has been chartered for the next six years and incorporates six jack-up legs which lift the vessel out of the water to provide a stable platform for the installation of foundations and turbine masts, even in rough seas. The company has invested around four billion euros in offshore wind in recent years with eight facilities having already been built in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, some of them in partnership with other companies. Having completed Kårehamn the company is now engaged with building Amrumbank West wind farm in the German North Sea.
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