A one-third of 1300T monopiles for the Veja Mate Offshore Project have been successfully installed.
The construction phase began in April 2016 and Veja Mate contractor Offshore Wind Force (OWF) has managed to install 24 monopiles, in the German North Sea using the Jack-up vessel, Scylla.
Rasmus Miller , foundation package manager, said: “It’s quite an achievement to maintain installation speed of the world’s heaviest monopile with a newly-built mega jack-up vessel and balance the requirements from the authorities. After an initial learning curve, speed picked-up and on the 28th of May OWF was able to complete installation of two monopiles in a single day.”
The next step in construction of the Veja Mate wind park will be installation of transition pieces, which will begin next week and will be completed independently from the monopiles.