COWI has been awarded a contract by Thistle Wind Companions (TWP), a partnership between DEME, Qair, and Aspiravi, to conduct pre-front-end engineering design (FEED) research for the Ayre and Bowdun offshore wind farms in Scotland.
Underneath the contract, COWI will perform a Pre-FEED research for TWP’s Ayre and Bowdun offshore wind farms, that are deliberate to enter development in 2029 and produce greater than 2 GW of renewable vitality by 2032-2032.
COWI will present an evaluation for the inspiration design of every offshore wind undertaking. The Denmark-headquartered firm will ship a complete Pre-FEED research that integrates each electrical and civil design parts.
The research will decide the feasibility of the event of sturdy electrical infrastructure, that includes inter-array cables that hook up with offshore substations. The corporate will even convey its expertise in street and railway design to help selections on onshore wire routing and related crossings, in line with COWI.
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The offshore wind tasks have been allotted as a part of the ScotWind leasing spherical in 2022.
The 1 GW Ayre floating wind farm is situated 33 kilometres to the east of Orkney, whereas the 1 GW Bowdun fixed-foundation undertaking is located 47 kilometres off the coast of Aberdeenshire.
A last funding determination for each the Ayre and Bowdun offshore wind tasks is deliberate for 2028 if consent is achieved in 2025.
“Our tasks have a busy yr forward with main consenting and engineering milestones forward of
them in 2024,” stated Ian Taylor, Challenge Director, Thistle Wind Companions (TWP).
“We hit the primary one in January with the publication of our Onshore Scoping Report for the Ayre undertaking, and making certain that we have now strong electrical and civil designs by the top of the yr will preserve the momentum. We welcome our companions at COWI on board our engineering journey as we combine fastened and floating wind applied sciences throughout these two ground-breaking tasks.”
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