Work on the set up of the 2 offshore substations (OSS) on the Moray West offshore wind farm website has began, with Boskalis’s DP set up vessel Bokalift 1 presently moored within the Port of Nigg with the elements for the primary OSS on board.
The Moray West undertaking crew notified concerning the graduation of the OSS set up marketing campaign on 20 November, saying that the work will begin on 26 November and that the substations are anticipated to be put in by mid/finish of December 2023, topic to climate circumstances and the progress of the works.
On 11 December, Moray West issued a weekly discover of operations, in keeping with which Bokalift 1 is presently alongside Nigg with the transition piece and the topside for the primary offshore substation already loaded onto the vessel’s deck.
Monopile foundations for each offshore substations have already been put in by Bokalift 2, which remains to be working on the offshore wind farm website.
Bokalift 1‘s scope of labor entails the set up of the J-Tube cages, transition items (TP) and topsides for each Moray West offshore substations.
The substations are Siemens Vitality’s offshore transformer modules (OTMs), delivered beneath a contract secured by the consortium of Siemens Vitality and Iemants, a subsidiary of Smulders.
The consortium companions loaded out and dispatched the topsides in the beginning of final month, with the OTMs arriving in Scotland by mid-November.
On the finish of final month, the primary batch of transition items (TPs), together with the 2 for the offshore substations, arrived on the Port of Nigg within the Cromarty Firth.
The 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm, developed by Ocean Winds, is situated within the Moray Firth, roughly 22.5 kilometres from the Caithness shoreline, the place main offshore building work began in the beginning of October with the set up of the primary monopile basis.
Moray West will comprise 60 Siemens Gamesa 14.7 MW wind generators and is scheduled to be totally operational in 2025. As soon as commissioned, the offshore wind farm is anticipated to fulfill the electrical energy necessities of about 650,000 households in Scotland for 25 years.
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