ESG Edelstahl und Umwelttechnik Stralsund GmbH will begin the construction of a transport structure intended for rotor blades of offshore wind turbines for EnBW Baltic 2 GmbH in April 2014.
Specialist company ESG will build the so-called “Blade Rack System” at the Volkswerft shipyard in Stralsund within two months. The system will then be mounted on a construction vessel. The steel structure will be used for safe storage of the rotor blades for EnBW Baltic 2 wind turbines during transport to the installation site at sea.
The system consists of two parts, the “Root End Blade Rack” and “Tip End Blade Rack” . The transport structure can accommodate a total of 18 blades .
ESGis also responsible for the construction of a prototype of Gicons’s Floating offshore foundation (GICON ®-SOF) , and its production will begin after the completion of “Blade Rack System ” in July2014, at the Volkswerft shipyard .
Offshore WIND Staff, March 31, 2014; Image: ESG