Windanker substation loaded out for voyage to Baltic Sea wind site

HSM Offshore Energy has loaded out the topside and jacket for the 300-MW Jasmund substation, part of the Windanker offshore wind development in the German sector of the Baltic Sea, 100 km from the Lubmin coast.

The 4,500-t topside, measuring 48 m long, 33 m wide and 17.5 m tall, was built at HSM’s Stormpolder yard. Smulders, the other member of the HSI consortium, constructed the 48-m-long, 33-m-wide, 17.5-m-high jacket, weighing about 4,500 t, at its yard in Vlissingen.

Both were due to be transferred onto barges for delivery to Windanker. To support safe transfer and transport of the substation, the partnership designed a special grillage to optimize structural integrity and load distribution.

This is the first of three offshore substations being developed by the HSI consortium for developer 50Hertz.