The primary of three 880 MW offshore substations being constructed for Dominion Power’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) challenge has arrived on the Bladt Industries manufacturing website in Aalborg, Denmark, for outfitting from a prefabrication website in Spain.
In 2021, a consortium comprising Semco Maritime and Bladt Industries was awarded a contract for the availability of three substations for the two.6 GW CVOW offshore wind challenge within the US.
Denmark-headquartered Bladt Industries is accountable for the design, procurement, and manufacturing of the metal buildings and jacket foundations for the substations, whereas the design, procurement, and set up {of electrical} gear, power methods, and inter-array cables shall be managed by Semco Maritime.
Together with the substations’ metal buildings and foundations, Bladt will additionally ship the transition items (TPs) for the offshore wind farm’s wind turbine foundations underneath a separate contract secured with the developer.
When it’s finished, every 880 MW offshore substation will weigh 3,800 tonnes, not together with the jacket foundations or the pin piles.
As beforehand reported, Dominion Power chosen the consortium of DEME Group and Prysmian because the Steadiness of Plant (BoP) contractors for the transportation and set up of the foundations and the substations and the engineering, procurement, building, and set up (EPCI) companies for the inter-array and export cables for the challenge.
DEME Offshore will oversee the entire offshore set up works for the foundations, substations, and infield cables, in addition to a part of the export cables.
Prysmian Group will present the export cables and 320 kilometres of 3-core 66 kV offshore inter-array cables with XLPE insulation for the wind farm.
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The CVOW challenge will comprise 176 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind generators and three offshore substations within the 112,800-acre industrial lease space positioned 27 miles (about 43 kilometres) off the Virginia Seaside coast.
Development and fabrication actions are already underway, with the monopile foundations arriving at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal in Virginia. The set up of foundations and wind generators is scheduled to start in 2024.
As soon as absolutely constructed in 2026, the two.6 GW offshore wind farm will be capable to generate sufficient electrical energy to energy as much as 660,000 households.
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