Case Study
INSTALLATION OF 72 MONOPILES ON KRIEGERS FLAK WINDFARM IN RECORD TIME
INSTALLATION OF 72 MONOPILES ON KRIEGERS FLAK WINDFARM IN RECORD TIME www.acteon.com The monopile foundation installation is one of the key elements of an offshore wind farm construction project and MENCK was contracted to provide their market leading hammer and associated services to drive the coated monopiles. THE PROBLEM Van Oord, a Dutch maritime contracting company, was awarded a contract to install 72 monopiles on the Danish Krieger’s Flak offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. Vattenfall holds the concession of the field which will be Denmark’s largest wind farm and is scheduled to be fully operational in 2021. Once completely commissioned, it will supply almost 600,000 households with 604 Megawatt of renewable energy. The monopile foundation installation is one of the key el