Belgium-based marine contractor and one of the largest dredging groups, DEME, has won a contract from Vattenfall for a cable protection system at the DanTysk and Sandbank wind farms off Germany.
The tender for the project was opened last year by operator Vattenfall. The contract has a value of $3.85m.
The DanTysk offshore wind farm is located west of Sylt Island at the most northern point of Germany and is part of the North Frisian Islands.
The wind farm comprises 80 wind turbines of 3.6MW each. The total output of 288MW can power up to 400,000 households. The wind farm has been in operation since 2014.
The offshore wind farm Sandbank is the second major wind power project in the German North Sea, the wind farm extends over an area of 60 sq km and is located 90 km off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein, and is neighbouring DanTysk.
Sandbank will have the same capacity as DanTysk and was built using 72 wind turbines with a 4MW capacity each. It has been in operation since 2016.
Recently, both wind farms participated in a testing campaign organised by Ampelmann, the Dutch Applied Scientific Research Institute, and Vattenfall. The test included the use of cargo AI-powered drones.
