The wind farm is being developed by a consortium between E.ON and Statoil, the Norwegian oil and gas company based in Stavanger. It will come online in 2019 and is expected to generate enough power to supply up to 400,000 German households. E.ON will build and operate the facility but will have joint responsibility with Siemens for servicing the turbines over a two-year period.
“This is the first order for our large direct-drive offshore wind turbines for a project in the Baltic Sea” said Michael Hannibal, Offshore CEO of the Siemens Wind Power and Renewables Division. “This is also the second offshore wind farm that we will be erecting for E.ON in German waters. We are pleased that E.ON and Statoil have once again chosen one of our offshore wind turbines for a new offshore wind power plant so we can continue our very good partnership with these two companies.”
Siemens has already supplied 80 wind turbines for E.ON’s Amrumbank West project in the German North Sea and in December also announced the delivery of five wind turbines of the 6 MW class to Statoil´s Hywind Scotland project.
The Arkona offshore wind power plant is to be erected around 35 kilometres north-east of the island of Rügen. The facility will cover an area of approximately 40 square kilometers with the 60 wind turbines erected on monopile foundations in ocean depths of between 23 to 37 metres. Installation of the turbines will begin in the summer of 2018. A team consisting of service technicians from Siemens and E.ON will be responsible for servicing and maintenance of the wind farm for an initial period of two years. This service agreement also includes round-the-clock remote monitoring of the wind turbines from the Siemens Remote Diagnostics Center in Brande, Denmark.
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