MPI Adventure Hired for Sandbank OWF

MPI Offshore announced that its vessel MPI Adventure and its services in general will be employed on the Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm project.

The company will perform the offshore transport and installation of all 72 Siemens 4-MW wind turbines, together with a wide range of related services.

Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (Munich City Utilities, SWM) have this week confirmed their commitment to this project, being their second joint offshore wind farm off the German North Sea coast.

Sandbank is expected to annually generate 1.4 TWh of renewable electricity annually, equivalent to the consumption of about 400,000 households.

The new wind farm will be built 110 km off the German coast. 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.

Gunnar Groebler, Head of the Renewables Business Unit for Vattenfall’s Continental/UK region said: “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.”

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Press Release, August 13, 2014