Vir­ginia Off­shore Wind Ener­gy Project

Jaeger-Unitek mem­bers proud­ly sup­port­ed and pre­pared wind ener­gy team to par­tic­i­pate in the first Unit­ed States off­shore wind tur­bine instal­la­tion in U.S fed­er­al waters.

Jaeger-Unitek’s role was to pre­pare the ship with our sis­ter com­pa­ny, Jaeger Mare Solu­tions, in order to install a noise reduc­tion bub­ble cur­tain around the pile dri­ving oper­a­tions. The bub­ble cur­tain is com­prised of one or two hoses which are laid out in a ring around the source of noise dur­ing pile dri­ving. The per­fo­rat­ed hoses are pres­sur­ized with com­pressed air – bub­bles emerge from the seabed to the sur­face of the water which cre­ate a ring-shaped pro­tec­tive wall around the noisy con­struc­tion site. With the help of the bub­ble cur­tain, the sound waves are both reflect­ed and absorbed, decreas­ing the sound inten­si­ty and thus pro­tect­ing the marine life. After deploy­ment, the hose sys­tem is retrieved and brought to the next con­struc­tion site.

Accord­ing to Jaeger-Unitek Busi­ness Con­sul­tant, Fred­erik Busse, “the Jäger Group’s vision and mis­sion is focused on work­ing togeth­er, cre­at­ing inno­v­a­tive poly­mer based solu­tions to nour­ish, ener­gize and sus­tain a grow­ing world pop­u­la­tion. Jaeger Mare Solu­tions’ bub­ble cur­tain is pos­i­tive­ly con­tribut­ing to a bet­ter envi­ron­ment by cre­at­ing reduced noise lev­els and ulti­mate­ly, the use of wind ener­gy to fur­ther con­tribute to a green­er method to pro­duce electricity”.