The twenty first and closing wind turbine was put in on the Vesterhav Nord wind farm within the Danish North Sea on Wednesday, 18 October, Vattenfall, the proprietor and developer of the venture, stated.
The milestone completes the wind turbine set up scope on the Vesterhavn Nord, and the 20-turbine Vesterhavn Syd wind farm.
Vattenfall expects to have the ability to ship electrical energy from the wind farms later this autumn.
Mathilde Damsgaard, venture director for Vesterhav Syd and Nord at Vattenfall, stated: “It’s a nice aid to have the final turbine put in earlier than autumn actually units in with much more extreme climate than now we have already had. Now we’re totally centered on finishing the cable work in order that we will begin supplying fossil-free wind vitality to Danish customers.”
The set up vessel Vole au Vent left Esbjerg Harbor for the primary time with 4 units of offshore wind generators on 7 July this 12 months. The primary turbine was erected on 12 July, and over the summer time and autumn the vessel has been a daily customer within the waters off Hvide Sande and Thyborøn, whereas the generators have been erected.
Cable Works Hit a Snag
In September, Vattenfall disclosed that the work of burying export cables within the seabed had encountered unexpected technical challenges.
It has been essential to discover a new technique to get the cables safely buried, and presently round 75 per cent of the work has been accomplished and the work continues.
Vattenfall expects to have the ability to ship energy from Vesterhav Syd later this autumn. Each wind farms have to be totally linked to the electrical energy grid by 31 December 2023 on the newest.
The Vesterhav Nord is positioned west of the coast of Vejlbi, and the Vesterhav Syd is positioned near the Sondervig coast. The 2 wind farm comprise 41 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW wind generators.
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