Jumbo Offshore has been awarded a contract by Yunneng Wind Energy Firm (YWPC) for the elimination of monopiles on the 640 MW Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan.
The contract award represents an enlargement of the firm’s present scope, which has concerned transport and set up of the venture’s transition items.
“We now have been lively on the Yunlin OWF venture since 2021, finishing up transport and set up of transition items and can proceed to carry out this function in 2024,” mentioned Milad Sheikhi, Head of Gross sales and Enterprise Growth at Jumbo Offshore.
Below the modification, some monopiles, which have been put in throughout an earlier venture part, are to be eliminated roughly three metres beneath the imply seabed stage. To undertake this scope, Jumbo Offshore will mobilise the DP2 heavy elevate crane vessel Fairplayer.
The vessel can be outfitted with an underwater abrasive reducing and lifting device in addition to an ROV. With these, the Fairplayer will take away the monopiles in a number of sections.
These will then be lifted into the vessel’s 1,400-square-metre cargo maintain for transportation to a neighborhood Taiwanese port, the place the vessel will offload the monopile sections to the quayside.
The 640 MW Yunlin offshore wind farm is developed by YWPC, a joint venture firm involving Skyborn Renewables, TotalEnergies, Electrical energy Producing Public Firm (EGCO), and Sojitz Company.
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Situated within the Taiwan Strait between 8 and 17 kilometres off Taiwan’s west coast, the offshore wind farm will comprise 80 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind generators put in at water depths of between 8 and 35 metres.
As soon as accomplished, the venture can be producing sufficient renewable vitality to serve the vitality wants of greater than 600,000 Taiwanese households.
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