Ecowende and Sif Holding will collaborate on the development of Ecowende’s offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust West web site VI, positioned about 53 kilometres off the Dutch coast, close to IJmuiden.
The collaboration for this venture between the offshore wind farm developer, a three way partnership of Shell and Eneco, and Sif Holding dates to February 2023 when Sif introduced having taken a last funding choice on the enlargement of its manufacturing services in Rotterdam.
At that event Ecowende, as a launching shopper for the expanded manufacturing facility, dedicated to take part in its financing by means of an Advance Manufacturing facility Fee. The venture was already in Sif’s order ebook for 70 kilotonnes however with the signature of the ultimate contract is now agency for manufacturing in 2025.
Sif shall be chargeable for the manufacturing of the 52 prolonged monopile foundations that can don’t have any transition items, however secondary metal parts, and that can have a complete weight of roughly 70 kilotonnes.
Transition piece-less monopiles had been efficiently utilized by Sif in earlier tasks offshore the Netherlands, together with the Hollandse Kust Noord venture for Crosswind, one other three way partnership of Shell and Eneco.
On this transition piece-less design, the secondary metal parts like boat-landings, ladders, primary entry platforms, and inner platforms shall be related to the monopile foundations as soon as these are put in at sea. The secondary metal parts may even be delivered by Sif in the identical contract.
Ecowende, along with companions equivalent to Sif, intends to set a brand new ecological normal for constructing and working wind farms within the North Sea, with minimal affect on the pure habitat of birds, bats and marine mammals, and with a thriving underwater world.
Folkert Visser, CEO and Mission Director Ecowende, mentioned: ”Constructing a wind farm in concord with nature is a vital situation for finally attaining the ambition of 70 GW of offshore wind power by 2050, throughout the ecological limits of the North Sea. Ecowende will implement varied improvements and larger-scale measures to mitigate the adverse results of the wind farm on the native ecology and to stimulate optimistic results. For Sif, this means for instance that the monopiles are designed for low noise set up strategies and that they will help varied wildlife detection and monitoring units, above and beneath the water line.”
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