EEW Korea Heavy Pipe Development (EEW KHPC) has loaded out the primary twelve pin piles for the jacket foundations that will probably be put in on the Hai Lengthy offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The primary batch of pin piles, whose load-out passed off on the quayside within the port of Gwangyang on 31 January, will quickly be shipped to Taiwan’s port of Tainan.
EEW says that the pin pile manufacturing at its facility in South Korea is sort of accomplished with the load-out on schedule and the following batch of piles scheduled to be shipped within the upcoming month.
The corporate is producing 156 pin piles for the 1,044 MW Hai Lengthy offshore wind farm beneath a contract signed in October 2022. The manufacturing on the EEW KHPC facility in South Korea began in early 2023.
The 1,044 MW Hai Lengthy undertaking contains two offshore wind farms, the 532 MW Hai Lengthy 2 and the 512 MW Hai Lengthy 3 and is being developed in three phases as Hai Lengthy 2 is additional cut up into two smaller offshore wind farms, the 300 MW Hai Lengthy 2a and the 232 MW Hai Lengthy 2b.
EEW’s contract for the 156 pin piles for the Hai Lengthy undertaking pertains to Hai Lengthy 2b and Hai Lengthy 3 offshore wind farms, which have a mixed put in capability of 744 MW.
Hai Lengthy’s Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind generators will probably be put in on three-legged jacket foundations which, for Hai Lengthy 2b and Hai Lengthy 3 are being manufactured by Samkang M&T and for Hai Lengthy 2a by Century Iron & Metal Industrial (CIS) and Century Wind Energy (CWP). The pin piles for the Hai Lengthy 2a a part of the undertaking are being delivered by CSBC.
The primary pin piles on the Hai Lengthy web site, positioned 50-70 kilometres off the coast of Changhua County, are anticipated to be put in in March and mark the beginning of main offshore building.