After the completion of the open European tender for the Front End Engineering Study (FEED), it was announced recently that KEMA, the energy consulting and testing and certification company, has won the tender. KEMA is to the study on two offshore wind farms in the North Sea, totalling in 1200 MW capacity. The tender was issued by EnBW Baden-Württemberg AG.

The study is part of an overall effort by Germany which has set a renewable energy goal of up to 25 GW of offshore wind capacity installed by 2030. The results of the study are expected to make a major contribution to the offshore wind industr in areas such as wind farm layout design, foundation types, platform concepts, installation procedures and maritime logistics.

[source: KEMA]