Smulders has loaded out the primary of the 2 Offshore Transformer Modules (OTMs) for the Moray West offshore wind farm at its yard in Newcastle, UK, readying the OTM for sail-out on the finish of the following month.
The corporate will load the second OTM onto a barge within the second half of October and dispatch it to Scotland just a few weeks later, in line with a social media put up Smulders revealed on 27 September.
As offshoreWIND.biz reported yesterday, main offshore development work on the Moray West undertaking web site is ready to begin on 1 October with the set up of the primary monopiles. The undertaking’s 62 monopiles and two offshore substation topsides (Siemens Vitality’s OTMs) are anticipated to be put in by the top of March/early April 2024, and all the muse transition items are deliberate to be in place till June subsequent 12 months.
Smulders is delivering the 2 OTMs for Moray West beneath a contract the corporate gained in a consortium with Siemens Vitality in 2021.
In accordance with the offshore wind farm’s developer, Ocean Winds, a key a part of the choice was the plan by the consortium between Siemens Vitality and Iemants (a subsidiary of Smulders) to convey meeting and match out of the OTMs on the Smulders Initiatives UK yard in Newcastle.
The OTMs, in addition to the monopile foundations, can be put in by Boskalis.
The offshore wind farm, situated off the east coast of Scotland within the Moray Firth, will comprise 60Â Siemens Gamesa 14.7 MWÂ wind generators.
As soon as it’s totally operational in 2025, the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm is predicted to satisfy the electrical energy necessities of about 650,000 households in Scotland for the following 25 years.
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