Wind Energy

OffshOre #2 | The Magazine
here. Then in 2008 the steel tower manufacturer AMBAU arrived to begin
production of large-diameter tubular segments and other parts with
large diameters and high component weights for towers and foundations
– all for the offshore industry. In January 2009, Ed. Züblin announced
that as a construction company it was investing a triple-digit
million sum in Cuxhaven to produce concrete foundations for offshore
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wind power stations. This is set to create 500 new jobs in the short
term. The State of Lower Saxony is also completing an offshore wharf
in Cuxhaven at a cost of 50 million euros. “For Cuxhaven the investments
in offshore wind energy are like winning the lottery,” says Mayor
Arno Stabbert, who is delighted with recent developments and already
sees the city of 50,000 at the northernmost tip of Lower Saxony as being
a “European centre” for the construction of offshore foundations.
Cuxhaven isn’t the only city with a feel-good factor. Emden has been
home to Bard Engineering’s production facilities since 2005. Bremerhaven
has now started advertising itself as the “home port of the
wind industry”. In this city on the Weser estuary, a close-knit network
employing a total of more than 1000 people has formed around the
manufacturers Areva Multibrid and Repower. The City also comprises
researchers such as the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy
System Technology (IWES), planners, and suppliers with the foun-
Made it:
The wind turbine is ready for operation.
Concluding handshake.
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