Siemens Gamesa has rolled out the primary 14 MW wind turbine nacelles at its Cuxhaven plant in Germany because the manufacturing of wind turbine parts for the Moray West offshore wind farm is presently underway.
The primary batch of nacelles is now awaiting cargo and set up on the Moray West venture web site offshore Scotland, Siemens Gamesa stated by way of social media.
Earlier this month, the corporate despatched off the primary 108-metre-long blades from its manufacturing manufacturing unit in Hull for the 882 MW offshore wind farm being constructed roughly 22.5 kilometres from the Caithness shoreline.
Moray West will comprise 60 Siemens Gamesa’s SG 14-222 DD wind generators with a rated capability of 14.7 MW per unit put in on monopile foundations, with the work on putting in the foundations presently in full swing.
Monopile set up began in October final yr, after the arrival of Boskalis’s vessel Bokalift 2 on the web site. As of this month, DEME’s Orion has joined Bokalift 2 to hold out the work and DEME’s set up vessel Apollo has been deployed to put in transition items.
Moray West is scheduled to be totally operational in 2025. As soon as commissioned, the 882 MW offshore wind farm is predicted to fulfill the electrical energy necessities of about 650,000 households in Scotland for 25 years.
Siemens Gamesa opened its plant in Cuxhaven in 2017 and manufactured the primary nacelle in February 2018.
From 2018 to 2019, the corporate produced 7 MW offshore wind turbine nacelles in Cuxhaven and rolled out greater than 400 nacelles for its 8 MW offshore wind generators there till the summer time of 2021, when the manufacturing of the 8 MW mannequin ended with the conversion work for the brand new turbine era.
In January 2022, Siemens Gamesa dispatched the primary serially-manufactured SG 11.0-200 DD nacelle from the manufacturing unit corridor in Cuxhaven because the supply of wind turbine parts began for the now-operational Dutch 1.4 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm.
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