Norwegian contractor Havfram has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall and BASF for work on their Nordlicht offshore wind farm cluster.
The Nordlicht wind farm zone, located 85 km north of the island of Borkum in the German North Sea, consists of two separate sites – Nordlicht I, with an expected capacity of 980W, and Nordlicht II, with an expected capacity of 630MW.
For Nordlicht I, the contract covers the transportation and installation support of 68 Vestas 15MW wind turbines, with work scheduled to begin in the summer of 2027. For Nordlicht II, Havfram will execute the transport and installation support of 44 such turbines, starting in the summer of 2028.
For both Nordlicht I and Nordlicht II, Havfram will use one of its wind turbine installation vessels currently under construction. No financial details were revealed.
Once fully operational, the Nordlicht I and II projects’ combined production is expected to be around 6TWh per year, equal to the electricity consumption of 1.6m households.
Havfram also signed a contract with German clean energy asset manager Luxcara to transport and install 16 of the foreseen 18.5MW wind turbines at the Waterkant offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
