MPI commissioned on German windfarm project
MPI Offshore’s vessel MPI Adventure is to be deployed on the Sandbank offshore windfarm project off the German North Sea coast.
The company will perform the offshore transport and installation of all 72 Siemens 4MW wind turbines, together with a wide range of related services.
“The Sandbank project is further testament to Vattenfall’s strategy of consistently focusing our growth efforts on the expansion of renewable energy,” said Gunnar Groebler, head of the Renewables Business Unit for Vattenfall’s Continental/UK region.
“We know how to work offshore and we see it as a significant building block in the success of the energy transition (Energiewende) in Germany.”
Sandbank is expected to generate 1.4 TWh of renewable electricity annually when completed, equivalent to the consumption of about 400,000 households.
MPI’s involvement in respect of the wind-turbine installation on the Sandbank project is scheduled to commence at the end of the summer of 2016.
By Anne-Marie Causer
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