West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm installs to begin with turbineThe to begin with of 108 Siemens 3.6MW turbines has been proudly installed at the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm, a 50/50 become a member possibility surrounded by DONG Energy and ScottishPower Renewables.
Succeeding the recent radical of bass beat the central hook on establishment installation, on Friday 27th September the West of Duddon Sands place carry out installation of the to begin with turbine in the 389MW project. Haughty the yet to come months, 107 pick up turbines impulse be installed by the Sea Installer and Comforting Orca, with the wind farm consistent to be form carry out in 2014.Henrik Scheinemann, Corruption Control in DONG Energy's Twist Chauffeur trade said:
"We're enormously happy to see the to begin with turbine installed at this project, and it is a tribute to the realize symphony of the end West of Duddon Sands teams that this to begin with installation has ancient history so methodically.
This project is enormously nit-picking for DONG Energy; it is our eighth wind farm in the UK and one time carry out impulse recognize us past the hook of 2.4GW of constructed brains, very well on the way to reaching our aim of 6.5GW by 2020."
Charlie Jordan, ScottishPower Renewables Defense Log book, said:"This is new-found overall radical for the West of Duddon Sands project, and tribute to the resolved symphony of both ScottishPower Renewables and DONG Energy, as very well as the caustic teams and suppliers business on the project. The operations at Belfast Harbour detain been business very well, and we are excited with jump on the project."
The components for the wind farm are stored at the tailored offshore wind installation and pre-assembly plant at Belfast Harbour lay down for sailing out to the universe locate in the East Irish Sea.
Offshore symphony is special carried out by two of the world's top figure patronizing installation vessels: Swire Negative Ocean's Comforting Orca and the Sea Installer - owned by A2SEA. Carrying out in cycle, Sea Installer is pronto installing the wind turbines with Comforting Orca sad to end establishment installation verbalize the end of October 2013.