The final load out of wind turbine parts for the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord Offshore Wind Farm was accomplished at Eemshaven right this moment.
An space of roughly 210,000 m2 was used for the challenge. Right here, 25 full units of generators may very well be saved.
Hurt Tillema, Building Engineer at CrossWind: “With a purpose to meet the development schedule, we use two set up vessels in parallel to put in all 69 generators through the summer time months of 2023”.
Since April, the set up vessels Scylla and Wind Osprey made a number of journeys to move wind turbine parts from the pre-assembly website in Eemshaven to the Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm.
Earlier than the set up vessels can sail out, the towers, nacelles and blades should be transferred from the storage website to the vessel. That is referred to as the load out. Wind Osprey is ready to carry 4 full units of generators. The load out time for this vessel is roughly 30 hours. Right this moment, the final load out was accomplished.
Tillema: “This can be a 24/7 course of. Our companions Siemens Gamesa, Van Oord, Cadeler A/S and Seajacks are working very effectively collectively to tackle all technical challenges”. Watch the video with Tillema right here.
Hollandse Kust Noord
Hollandse Kust Noord is positioned round 18.5 kilometres off the west coast of the Netherlands, close to Egmond aan Zee. The wind farm contains 69 Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind generators. The challenge produced its first megawatt hours (MWh) of inexperienced electrical energy and delivered it to the Dutch mainland in June this yr. As soon as absolutely operational, the wind farm will begenerating not less than 3.3 TWh per yr. Hollandse Kust Noord is a challenge by CrossWind, a joint-venture between Shell and Eneco.
