Wind Energy – CPS
DEME Offshore has won a contract from Vattenfall for a cable protection system (CPS) stabilisation project at the DanTysk and Sandbank wind farms off Germany.
The tender for the project was opened in June last year by operator Vattenfall. The contract has a value of $3.85m.
The DanTysk offshore wind farm is situated to the west of the island of Sylt, an island in the most northern point of Germany, it forms part of Nordfriesand district and it belongs to the North Frisian Islands.
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 square kilometres and is located 90 kilometres off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein, right next to DanTysk.
The wind farm comprises 80 Siemens Gamesa 3.6 MW wind turbines. The total output of 288MW can power up to 400,000 households. The wind farm has been in operation since 2014.
