DONG Energy has again awarded a contract to Steelwind Nordenham for the supply of monopoles and transition pieces for wind power plants, Kallanish hears from Steelwind Nordenham’s parent, Dillinger Hütte, which will make the plate for the parts.

The wind park Borkum Riffgrund 2 will consist of 56 towers in the 8 MW class, to produce power for some 460,000 households as of 2019. It will be located 5 km off the coast of Lower Saxony. Steelwind is already producing the monopoles for a UK project by DONG. For the Borkum Riffgrund 2 order, DONG will also produce the transition pieces, which connect the monopiles with the tower.

“The order will give us a very good utilization until early 2018,” said Ralf Hubo, managing director of Steelwind Nordenham. He underlined that the company is now more optimistic that it can create its targeted 300 jobs, and said that the figure could be within reach by early 2017.