The ongoing development of offshore wind energy in the North Sea and
Baltic Sea has an increasing impact on the marine environment. More than
1,000 offshore wind turbines and at least 20 converter and transformer
platforms have already been installed. Every offshore installation
represents a disturbance in the marine environment. Chemical emissions
from these farms have hardly been investigated to date. In this context,
necessary measures for corrosion protection systems and the use of
operating materials need to be considered. Scientific findings on the
quantities released and their distribution in the respective
environmental compartments (water, sediment, biota) are currently
scarce. A comprehensive assessment of the effects on the marine
environment is therefore only possible to a limited extent by the
current state of knowledge.
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