ScottishPower Renewables has awarded Van Oord the contract for East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm by ScottishPower Renewables (part of the Iberdrola Group) for the transport and installation of 102 three-legged jacket foundations.
The new wind farm, due to be finished in 2020, will be made of up 102. 7MW Siemens wind turbines with a capacity to power around 500,000 homes. The entire project, 45km offshore Lowestoft, England, in the southern North Sea, is worth nearly $3.21 billion. It will be the largest amount of three-legged foundations in a wind farm ever installed worldwide.
Nexans has been chosen to supply submarine cables to carry energy onshore from from the 714 MW windfarm. Nexans in turn awarded a cable installation and trenching work contract to DeepOcean.
Nexans will type test, manufacture and install two, 85km-long, high voltage three-core submarine cables with embedded fiber optics, as well as accompanying accessories, for the wind farm in the North Sea. The contract is worth more than US$192 million.
Delivery will begin in Summer 2018 and offshore work will be undertaken by 2019, with the Maersk Connector and purpose built power cable plough, ACP2, supported by DeepOcean’s in-house fleet of dedicated construction support vessels.
Van Oord will be responsible for the logistics of all jacket foundations and piles, sourced from various suppliers, and the transport to the marshalling port of Flushing in The Netherlands. From there the foundations will be transported and installed with an installation vessel. The installation work is planned between half of April 2018 and the end of October 2018.
ScottishPower Renewables is also in the early planning stages for two bigger wind farms in the same region: East Anglia TWO and East Anglia THREE.