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Donegal grid connection Red Rock Power has slashed summer. The new Inch Cape massive gorse fire that is Newly-hired US offshore Invis Energy is seeking approval for joint turbine numbers by more design is based on 250-metre threatening part of the lead Chris Wissemann said grid infrastructure to connect a pair of than a third as part of a Plan rotors and 176-metre hubs, under-construction 169MW “the time is right” for Innogy consented Irish wind farms as a single B bid to secure fresh planning up from the previously Galway mega-farm in the to build on its experience at project featuring up to 24 turbines. p7 consent for its 784MW Inch consented 172 and 129 west of Ireland. northern Europe projects in Cape offshore wind farm in metres, respectively. The blaze “escalated” late what will be a “substantial” Publication dates; Scotland. Overall tip heights would on Tuesday after easing on new market. OFFSHORE The Chinese developer stretch to 301 metres, up Monday night. At one point New York, where the Six-month wait before lights is working on a revised from 215 metres, and even earlier this week flames were company previously bid but go on at DolWin3 hub p4 72-turbine Outer Tay layout fewer machines would be within 40 metres of a pair of lost out to Statoil, has 2.4GW Massachusetts out to fill its that would replace the original built should more powerful 3MW turbines. on the books, Massachusetts boots in call p8 disputed 110-unit project. hardware become available. Three units of the Galway plans to build 1.6GW and New Red Rock has told Marine Various foundation types fire service, a Coillte-deployed Jersey is expected to develop Scotland the new design including traditional piled helicopter and the Irish Air at least 1.1GW. will improve the wind jackets, suction bucket Corps are all working to bring Readership p2 farm’s economics while jackets, gravity base jackets the flames under control. Orkney project also reducing “associated and hybrid gravity bases “The fire continues to environmental effects”. remain in the frame. Up to comprise a number of option at DCNS A planning application is two substations with piled separate fire events to DCNS Open Hydro is eyeing the southern and western Early homework pays off at being prepared against the jackets or gravity base jackets deployment of two 2MW perimeter of Galway wind 600MW Gemini p10 background of a long-running are also envisaged. open centre tidal turbines at legal battle over Scottish The full design is yet to be park,” SSE said. the European Marine Energy Supply chain investment ready government consent for Inch finalised but the developer At least a quarter of the Centre in Orkney. to roll in Maryland p19 Cape, which was overturned said it believes the revised 4000-hectare Cloosh Valley The company was recently due to bird issues. project will result in an forest where parts of the given the all-clear by Marine NEWS “The application for consent overall 23% reduction in wind farm are located has Scotland for the mini-array of already been destroyed. Onshore ready to fly without for the revised development total disturbed area and a 16-metre machines at the Fall Coillte said it believes the fire supports, says wind veteran is being pursued in parallel 44% cut in lost habitat as a of Warness test site. was started deliberately. p5 with the ongoing judicial result of a streamlined build A timeline has yet to be Advertising review process for the original programme. “Our priority is to deal with identified for installation. SSE eyeing power surge at development,” said Red Rock. RSPB Scotland, which the incident while ensuring In , meanwhile, Scottish extension p12 Mainstream’s 450MW Neart took the initial legal action the safety of our employees, the Marine Management UK relying on Europe for na Gaoithe and the SSE/ against the consents, said: contractors, ground crews Organisation has issued 2018 geothermal spark Fluor consortium’s 1050MW “Projects must be sited and and support personnel,” SSE a licence to US developer Three-page Focus starts on p13 Seagreen projects are also designed to minimise impacts added. Two-thirds of the GWave to deploy its under- aiming to ride wave awaiting resolution of the on Scotland’s internationally site’s 69 turbines have been construction 9MW device at specifications p3 of repowering projects p17 legal case, which is due in renowned seabird populations.” erected. Photo: Mel Mullarkey next year.

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22 October 2015 WIND 03 19 November 2015 NEWS 08 19 November 2015 GLOBAL OFFSHORE 09 19 November 2015 MARINE 07 said. SPR is also ROUND 3 RUNNERS AND FALLERS EDF timeline pushing on with its Nova Scotia IN BRIEF IN BRIEF 08 Project MW Developer Consent milestone NEWS SHORTS East Anglia zone. Vestas finds 1200 RWE Abandoned November 2013 Wavepower staffs up to n Buccleuch Estates and 2020 Nordex gets hands at Beck Burn n The renewables unit of German n Siemens’ wind and renewables pre-tax profit of €36m, up from Plans for the 1.2GW EA3 are said to be n Vattenfall has sold 19 Danish wind sowing the Renewables are fine-tuning plans EDF Energy Renewables is utility EnBW has posted an adjusted business posted a profit of €72m in its €22.8m in the year-ago period, on the “progressing incredibly well” with the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck A&B 2400 Statoil, Statkraft, RWE and SSE Consented February 2015 farms featuring 88 turbines to Green for the up to 168MW North Lowther to start construction at its EBITDA of €156m for the first nine fiscal fourth quarter versus a loss of back of a 50% jump in sales to €685m. developer looking to lodge a consent Dogger Bank Teeside A&B 2400 Statoil, Statkraft, RWE and SSE Consented August 2015 Power Partners for an undisclosed seeds for a AA months of 2015, up 7.4% on the €60m in the same period last year. A The manufacturer said its takeover of Energy Initiative, a wind farm complex nine-turbine Beck Burn wind an extra turn application in the “near future”. Dogger Bank Teeside C&D 2400 Statoil, Statkraft, RWE and SSE Discontinued and handed seabed back to Crown Estate in August 2015 sum. The 65MW disposal is part of find winning technology 19 NOVEMBER 2015 RENEWABLE ENERGY NEWS n ISSUE 324 RENEWS.BIZ in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. on 72MW Irish prize farm in Cumbria in the second year-earlier period. Onshore wind slight drop in onshore turbine orders Acciona, expected to be completed in Construction will launch two to three the Swedish utility’s strategy to focus tidal power Somerset marine developer for prototype deployment learn from it and improve the East Anglia 1 714 SPR Consented June 2014, due online 2020 farm production and the ramp-up of was offset by growth in the services 2017, will result in a 15% to 18% cut THIS WEEK The partners held a second round Nordex has secured a so the swap will come at the Infrastructure Development quarter of 2016 to meet the years after a positive decision, if given. East Anglia 3 1200 SPR Application filed to the Planning Inspectorate in November 2015 on “larger” wind projects. Wavepower Technologies is in 2016. Possible test sites next concept,” he said. Senvion on verge of maiden EDF turns of public exhibitions in recent weeks 29-turbine supply deal cost of 14.5MW in headline site lies to the east of the Renewables Obligation cut-off the 288MW Baltic 2 offshore project business. in the cost of energy by 2018. The wind farm is expected to beanfeast seeking to hire 15 engineers include Falmouth’s FabTest, Rubie-Todd said of speed in East Anglia 4 1200 Vattenfall PINS application expected to be filed in fourth-quarter 2016 Irish victory to showcase a 42-turbine layout north for West Clare Renewable capacity. semi-state developer’s of March 2017. compensated for the negative impact feature up to 172 7MW-plus turbines n Vestas won an order from China’s Nova Scotia’s government has to support plans to deploy Wales’s South Pembrokeshire Wavepower is driven by cost the tables of run-of-river plants, EnBW said. n Nordex banked a third-quarter news Hornsea 1 1200 Dong Energy Consented December 2014, due online 2020 Senvion is close to landing its first EU grant opens of Wanlockhead based on hardware Energy’s 72.5MW Slievecallan Eight Nordex machines operational 84MW Mount The developer is understood re .biz in the northern half of the lease area Hanas for 25 V110-2MW turbines. reaffirmed its commitment to a prototype device off the wave site, Orkney’s European of energy and maintenance ever Irish supply contract with MM82 EDF Energy Renewables and of between 3MW and 4MW. wind farm in the west of have meanwhile been officially Lucas project. to be in talks with two turbine off Lowestoft. Hornsea 2 1800 Dong Energy Under examination by PINS, consent decision due March 2016 The Danish manufacturer will supply tidal energy in the Canadian British Isles next year. Marine Energy Centre and rather than the best turbines in the final shake-up at two partner Force 9 have been Feasibility studies have reduced Ireland. inaugurated at ESB’s 20MW suppliers, including Vestas, for new turbines EA3 will be linked to Bramford Hornsea 3 1200 Dong Energy PINS application expected to be filed in first-quarter 2016 the hardware to the Wanglejing province’s Electricity Plan The company will boost its Ireland’s Galway Bay. hydrodynamic efficiency. Galetech Energy wind farms. p2 given the all clear on appeal the project from an initial up to 140 The contract has yet to Woodhouse wind farm in n Provento Ireland has the project near Solway Moss. Vestas is to offer its coming added. Vestas is upgrading in Suffolk via 140km subsea export Moray 1100 EDP/Repsol Consented March 2014, awaiting next CfD round Niujijuan wind farm in the Ningxia Hui 2015-2040. 20-strong engineering team Wavepower co-founder “We’re not looking at Lower costs to build the seven-turbine turbines. Further consultation is be signed but an agreement County Waterford, which appealed against local A consent variation will allow 3.45MW Class 1 and 2 its 3.3MW onshore turbines cables and 37km underground wires. Navitus Bay 970 Eneco/EDF Rejected by Secretary of State September 2015 autonomous region next year. Officials aim to have to 35 with positions available and chief executive David oscillating water columns.” Craigton and Spittalhill wind planned ahead of an eventual Section for 2.5MW N90 machines features a mix of N80 and authority rejection of its models with a blade length of turbines, currently being to 3.45MW across all wind A converter station will be required to up to 22MW of capacity for electrical, mechanical, Rubie-Todd said the company The longer-term aim to unlock new horizons at Rampion 400 Eon/GIB/Enbridge Final investment decision May 2015, expected online 2018 10GW UK farm near Stirling in Scotland. 36 application. is in the bag, according to N90 hardware. 12MW Crilly wind farm on the up to 51.5 metres. upgraded from the 3.3MW regimes to increase energy change DC power to AC. n RWE Innogy recorded a “marked in production or active design, modelling and tank has whittled down 250 device is to be both a device Rhiannon, Irish Sea 2200 /Dong Abandoned 2014 offshore Holyrood officials this week local sources. Construction is John Sisk and Sons and the Donegal and Tyrone border. EDF will launch a tender for platform, in an optional power performance by up to 12%. Vattenfall’s 1.2GW EA4 project improvement” in earnings in the first development by the early testing specialists. New concepts to a “handful”. manufacturer and site Seagreen A&B 1050 SSE/Fluor Consented October 2014, in limbo prize, says overturned local authority n ABO Wind has applied to Perth expected to get underway in Kirby Group were responsible civil engineering works when a mode of up to 3.6MW for the The V105, V112, V117 and in the north of the zone, which is three quarters of the year, boosting 2020s in the Bay of Fundy. offices are currently under “I hope to have some developer. Rudd rejection based largely on and Kinross Council to build the 2016 with awards imminent for civil and electrical works at n Galetech Energy has turbine deal is finalised, which highest-speed onshore sites V126 are being improved via also in the Planning Inspectorate the operating result €251m year on Progress toward large- construction in Glastonbury. sort of test in the sea next “Our dream is to make Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has Scotrenewables visual impacts. The wind farm 11-turbine Green Burn project near for electrical and civil the project. won consent for a revised is expected to be next month. such as those in Scotland. a combination of larger rotor system, is expected to require four also be responsible for installation number of elements with the offshore is due to end on 3 March. The year to €280m largely due to the scale deployment will follow Wavepower, which claims year,” he said, adding that commercially viable wave sketched plans for up to 10GW of near the Carron Reservoir Alyth. engineering packages. substation at its consented The developer is working to The Danish manufacturer sizes, optimisation of load 160km seabed export cables and from 2019 and ongoing operations substation the subject of a “flexible government then has a further six commissioning of the 576MW Gwynt y passage of the Marine to have £50m of backing from the company will likely energy devices, build out new offshore wind post-2020 with at Orkney tidal device developer will be installed next to the from the Horizon 2020 will feature turbines of up to The site, next to SSE’s operational West Clare is linked with n Bord na Mona has kicked 23MW Carrickallen wind farm meet the remaining planning said the boost would be carrying structures, optimised 37km underground links running and maintenance services. Ramboll is approach” that could result in a months to make a consent decision Mor wind farm off Wales and 295MW Renewable Energy Act and the private investors including deploy a variety of different projects ourselves and sell least three competitive rights auctions Scotrenewables has bagged first device, which is due to Competitive Low Carbon 125 metres and top power is 36.8MW Drumderg wind farm, would Craydel Group as well as a off consultations with An in Cavan. Project construction conditions imposed by achieved by operating power converters and control to an onshore converter station at designing foundations. number of awards. but Statkraft and development Nordsee Ost off Germany. setting up of a new area for chairman and Pensions technologies before deciding electricity. planned over the next four years. p3 approximately €10m in be deployed shortly at the Energy Call 3 with sign-off expected to be 21MW. feature 3MW hardware with tips of up number of local landowners. Bord Pleanala ahead of will start next year. Carlisle City Council. the hardware at a slightly system changes. Bramford. SPR kicked off a number of major The majority of deals will be in partner RWE are said to be confident commercial projects. Direct founder Adam Norris, on a device to take to market. “If can have kit in the water funding from the European European Marine Energy imminent, according to EDF is elsewhere preparing to 126.5 metres. Emma Tinker of HgCapital sits an application for the up higher tip speed to achieve The new control system tendering competitions in July for place by February 2016, the Scottish of a positive outcome. n Envision Energy has appointed The plan also states that said the enlarged team “I’m expecting us to put generating power by the end SPR bid to lift Argyll and Bute Union’s Horizon 2020 R&D Centre’s Fall of Warness test sources. to file a Section 36 application on the board. to 30-turbine Cloncreen an increased nominal significantly increases input n the run-up to 2020, SPR is packages including array cable supply developer said. The up to 288-turbine wind fram Skanska to manage construction new sector research funding will develop one or more something in the water and it of the decade supplying clean wind complex to 112MW programme to build and site off Orkney, by the end of Development partners for its proposed Fallago Rig 2 n SSE has updated plans for an Slievecallan was originally wind farm in County Offaly. power rating within existing and outputs for a flexible steaming ahead with its 714MW and installation, and foundation Statkraft’s 900MW , off is scheduled to be logistics at the Kafjarden wind farm in will be available from the as-yet-undecided wave not work, so we’ll do it at low energy in the UK that would ScottishPower Renewables has filed to I deploy a next-generation the decade. They will share include Irish tidal project project in the Scottish HVDC interconnector between the based on Vestas V90 turbines The expected Strategic certifications. and future-ready set-up, the EA1 project. The developer said supply and installation at the Round the last Round 2 project still in built in a single rolling phase with first Sweden, which will feature four of the Department of Energy to energy converter concepts cost and relatively quickly to be awesome.” build an ‘old school’ third phase at its floating turbine. the same export cable. developer DP Energy, Belfast Borders. The 12-turbine Scottish mainland and the Outer Chief product manager company claimed, adding construction of the £2bn offshore 3 project. development, is also quietly getting on power by 2020, although a final layout Chinese company’s 3MW turbines and leverage private funds and Beinn an Tuirc wind farm. p9 The Stromness company The second turbine is to shipyard Harland & Wolff and extension with tip heights of Hebrides with the western terminus Jan Hagen said the higher the ethernet-based product wind farm will gear up in 2017 and full Tenders were invited in September with gaining consent for its electrical remains undecided. five 2.3MW units. Envision is also to complement Offshore Energy IN BRIEF will build a medium voltage feature an energy storage mooring outfit TFI Marine, as 126.5 metres will have a top converter station now planned at Developers pull out output requires a trade-off in reduces physical components operations are scheduled for the turn for transmission works including system prior to a planned 2017 Development and construction open a new office in Hamburg. Research Association awards. OFFSHORE version of its 2MW SR2000 system to enhance the well as EMEC. power of 41.4MW and is on a Arnish Point near Stornoway rather terms of a narrower operating housed in the turbine by 40%. of the decade. export and onshore cables and construction start. phases will be delivered by a joint The opening of the n Turin developer Wave for Energy out of the water for maintenance. The in the Indian Ocean. A first stage of Cable switch slows tie-in at machine, to be dubbed project’s overall electrical Scotrenewables’ floating reduced footprint versus an than at Gravir. scissors in Scotland temperature window and Vestas expects to Siemens has been lined up to offshore and onshore substations. The Planning Inspectorate’s ongoing Statkraft-RWE project team managed n French floating foundation Maritime Link interconnector will grid-connect its Inertial Sea cost of the first phase of the Marina di 1MW at a site off the Andaman and Borkum Riffgrund 2 p10 SR2000-MV, it is understood. efficiency and business case. turbine is the second marine earlier 17-machine layout. The subsea cable route has reactive power capabilities. erect a 3.45MW upgrade supply 102 7MW turbines and will These are being broken into a examination of the £4bn development by the Norwegians. n specialist company Ideol and China in late 2017 or early 2018 will Wave Energy Converter by the end of Pisa project is estimated at €200,000. Nicobar Islands will be extended in The new 2MW iteration Funding will be allocated energy project to receive cash also been tweaked as a result. The Willowind has slimmed down Muirden Energy has “We are trying to optimise demonstrator by next Steel are to collaborate on potential allow excess tidal and wind January. Cabling was due to start this phases, reaching up to 30MW. Tender game plan at 900MW REALISTIC under this particular call. project is not expected online until designs for its now-54.4MW meanwhile reduced the size power production on a summer with first deliveries offshore wind projects in Taiwan. power to be bundled with week and is expected to be completed n Bluewater Energy’s BlueTEC Triton Knoll p16 Offshore wind Danish developer end-decade. Linfairn wind farm in South of its proposed West Garty SOLUTIONS TO site-specific basis and we will likely by the end of 2016. for export. by mid-January. The 100kW device floating tidal platform has been n Apple has committed to a €1m Wavestar’s 1MW wave device Ayrshire, south-west Scotland. wind farm in the Scottish be able to tailor it between Hagen said some of the n The Renewables InfrastructureG Additional development was put in place off Sicily in August. upgraded with Tocardo’s larger T2 Ocean Energy Industry Fund to finding its mojo ONSHORE within an offshore wind farm The offshore wind sector is n has launched a third The London developer has Highlands following an ENVIRONMENTAL 3.45MW and 3.6MW,” he said. upgraded components have Group has raised £78m via a share opportunities, including turbine. The 200kW machine has support prototype deployment at in the Belgian North Sea is in honing its craft with projects bond with the aim of raising up reduced turbine numbers objection raised by the local “We can have individual already been deployed in issue, positioning it to “take advantage licences and access to Nova n 40South Energy has installed the doubled BlueTEC’s capacity. Ireland’s Galway Bay test site. Up to Muirhall buys assorted AES line to receive around €17m. across the world-leading to £25m to assist in building six from 25 to 17 with tips now council. dialogues with customers operational turbines. of the strong pipeline of attractive Scotia markets, will be granted first of two planned H24 wave energy €250,000 will be awarded each year. wind assets in Scotland p4 ISSUES Scotrenewables’ initial Northern European market renewable energy projects in pegged at 126.5 metres and Turbine numbers at the site about site conditions, investment opportunities currently on a competitive basis. converters off the coast of Pisa, Italy. n Seabased of Sweden has signed Airvolution looks to stretch SR2000 features a 64-metre being built the UK. hardware of up to 3.2MW in near Helmsdale in Sutherland wind speeds, turbulence, n Vestas posted a third-quarter under consideration”. Chief executive Michele Grassi said a memorandum of understanding n Sabella has started generating arms at new acquisition p13 floating hull incorporating in record The company said the projects the frame. have been cut by one to 17. E temperature range, opex net profit of €206m, up from Plato heading testing of the 50kW device would last with New Delhi-based developer power from its D10 turbine near two 1MW rotors mounted on times and in are already in the first stages of Plans for a northern Tips have been lowered from and capex to find the best €102m a year earlier, as n Lightsource Renewable Energy “several months” before it is hauled Seafaradays Energy for a wave project Ouessant island off Brittany. retractable legs. construction and that investors are in is to invest £2bn in the Indian solar for the water MARINE ever more construction compound have 120 to 110 metres. possible solution.” orders rose 50% to 1508MW It is currently undergoing routine line for a return of 5.5% per annum. been dropped while access Planners previously raised The 3.6MW turbines can in the three months. Year-to- sector over the next five years. The Tidal developer Sustainable Wavepower staffs up to find FINAL PREPARATIONS: the developer’s 2MW SR2000 device commissioning by Harland & manner. roads and the amount of concerns about landscape be ordered and delivered on date orders total 6275MW, up up to 3GW campaign is part of a Marine Energy is preparing to winning technology Photo: Scotrenewables p7 is due to be installed at EMEC by the year-end Wolff at Belfast Harbour. Costs n Lancashire County Pension Fund forest felling necessary to and visual impacts from the the same timeline as standard from 4290MW at this stage wider £10bn package of co-operation deploy a 50kW Plato device remain an is taking a minority stake in 500MW accommodate the wind farm project. 3MW platform machines, he of 2014. unveiled last week between the UK at Orkney’s European Marine France hits brakes on Round 3 auction issue although industry is of EDF Nouvelles wind assets have been reduced. Fresh council guidance D and India. Energy Centre. France has delayed its will take place after coming and questioned whether determined to address the in Portugal. Scottish ministers will have will be provided to ministers, SSE flies in wild weather The Isle of Wight company promised Round 3 offshore presidential elections. preparations over the next 18 current upward curve. the final say on the proposal who again will make the final SSE’s renewable energy in construction in the UK on n National Grid has given the is on site and will install renews.biz wind auction until the second Consultation on zones for months will survive likely post- The renews Global Offshore under Section 36 powers. decision on West Garty under generation jumped in the first track to meet the Renewables green light to the use of modular an anchoring system at half of 2017. the around 3GW round will election policy shake-ups. 2015 special report will Section 36 powers. half of the year on the back of Obligation deadline of end- transformer stations at UK offshore EMEC’s Fall of Warness grid- wind farms. Siemens developed Environment Minister kick off in the first quarter of Round 3 is due to feature be sent out separately to 2HSD(CDMSHÖB@SHNM@MC$U@KT@SHNM wet and windy weather in its March 2017 and another connected test bed once it OpenHydro fights the fat n SSE will hold a supply chain core markets. 472MW holding consent. the concept, which places mini- receives a licence from Marine Segolene Royal told the next year on the new timeline. up to six zones and would subscribers later today. $( 2BQDDMHMF@MC2BNOHMF F Costs take centre stage as major tidal European Wind Energy Preliminary technical surveys double the country’s offshore Anyone who does not day for local businesses next Output in the UK and The timing and substance substations atop extended turbine Scotland. turbine deployments loom in Canada Association 2015 conference will follow in the third quarter. wind capacity to 6GW receive the data-heavy month for the 32-turbine $( #DRHFM@MC/QNIDBS,@M@FDLDMS Ireland rose to 3163GWh in of the next Contracts foundations. 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CT Offshore vessel Sia will be GLOBAL COUNTDOWN DEMONSTRATOR CHECK-UP RWE buys IN BRIEF installing Siemens on duty to install 87 inter-array Project, Country MW Lead developer Turbine Capex per megawatt-hour for the 450MW at Project MW Developer Update Tender game plan at 27 6MW turbines from cables at Dong’s mighty 660MW On the books in 2015 04 for wind farms £114/MWh. Heavy seas for DoE Aqua Ventus Maine 12 UMaine/Emera/Cianbro Continuing design and engineering, n Walney 3 wind farm starting in in grid link Team Humber Marine Alliance next autumn and Gwynt y Mor, UK 576 RWE Siemens 3.6MW £2bn reaching final The UK bids raised eyebrows but BOEM conducting environmental and other local representatives were Dudgeon is due to go live in 2017. spring 2017 Photo: CT Offshore assessment Humber Gateway, UK 219 Eon MHI Vestas 3MW £800m investment decision in 2020. underscore the expectation that due to meet a trade delegation from Eon is already taking strides Even market leader Dong is coy, increased competition in Europe’s back-up Kentish Flats 2, UK 49.5 Vattenfall MHI Vestas 3.3MW £165m Atlantic City 24 Fishermen’s Energy Requested DoE extension, switched to RWE has tapped EDS Group Germany this week to strengthen 900MW Triton Knoll onshore for its 400MW Rampion saying that because of the increasing offshore wind markets will accelerate demo developers Siemens turbines, trying to re-apply Westermost Rough, UK 210 Dong Siemens 6MW £850m to provide contingency cover ties between Siemens supply chain Partners Statkraft and Contracts for Difference will be pre-qualified before a wind farm and kicked off substation number of competitive tenders “it savings across the board as well as hree demonstration projects The developer switched to Siemens for ORECs Amrumbank, Germany 288 Eon Siemens 3.6MW €1bn for the grid connection at its players in Cuxhaven and north-east RWE are looking to award round. selection process focused on civil engineering at the start of would make it more difficult for us to providing a yardstick for progress awarded $47m each by the US turbines instead of XEMC machines Icebreaker (Lake Erie) 18 Leedco To select turbines by end-2015, Baltic 2, Germany 288 EnBW Siemens 3.6MW €1.3bn completed geotech studies, finalising 576MW Gwynt y Mor wind England. preferred bidder status for all “We do not know what will wider scheme optimisation November, marking the debut for make the ‘right’ offer if we disclose towards the €100/MWh holy grail. Department of Energy have in hope of overcoming state Borkum Riffgrund 1, Germany 312 Dong Siemens 4MW €1.25bn T monobucket foundation design farm off Wales. A delegation from the Virginia tier-one contracts at the up to be in the allocation pot. We produces a winner. Round 3 construction. recent or current cost levels”. Approaching the latter will be been granted extensions until May regulators’ objections to the Chinese Virginia 12 Dominion Requested DoE extension, re-tendering The specialist company Offshore Wind Consortium in the US 900MW Triton Knoll wind farm are aiming to remain flexible Triton is likely to feature Trenching and duct-laying of cable Borkum West 2.1, Germany 200 Trianel Areva/Adwen 5MW €1bn 2016 after missing key milestones this manufacturer. The NJ Senate has Auction results are giving some crucial for what follows. The majority construction to reduce costs will carry out quarterly will meet representatives from Hull at off Lincolnshire by the third to ensure that we optimise HVAC technology for its grid started at the end of October with Butendiek, Germany 288 WPD Siemens 3.6MW €1.3bn indication of future cost curves. of governments have largely parked summer. The DoE said it expects “to passed a bill that would force DanTysk, Germany 288 Vattenfall Siemens 3.6MW €1.05bn WindFloat Pacific 25 Principle/Deepwater Requested DoE extension, downsized investigations of onshore and the local university early next month quarter of next year. our bid. Our goal is to secure connection although that exploratory works also kicking off Vattenfall is building the 400MW Horns the difficult decision on how best to finalise the current evaluation this fall”. regulators to approve the project but from 30MW, looking for power offshore export assets in a bid to discuss a possible memorandum of New project director James a CfD based on 900MW,” element remains subject to a offshore. The wind farm off Brighton Global Tech 1, Germany 400 Global Tech Areva/Adwen 5MW €1.7bn Rev 3 based on a bid of 77 ore/kWh, decarbonise by 2030 with even fewer Fishermen’s Energy is seeking to re- it has yet to clear the assembly. purchase agreement to avoid shutdowns estimated understanding. Cotter said the developers Cotter said. live planning application with on England’s south coast will feature Nordsee Ost, Germany 295 RWE Senvion 6.15MW €1.05bn albeit that price is described as a having mapped a specific role for apply for offshore renewable energy Dominion Power is trying to cut to cost £125,000 per day. want to work collaboratively “We are a R2 project a decision due from DECC 116 MHI Vestas V112-3.45MW Luchterduinen, Netherlands 129 Eneco/Mitsubishi MHI Vestas 3MW €450m one-off due to unique circumstances. offshore wind. certificate funding for its reconfigured the cost of its 12MW Virginia test make a decision whether to proceed governor is backing Principle Power/ Required EDS chief executive Ryan n Dong has signed up Raytheon with potential suppliers to competing with R3 projects. next September. turbines and is set to go live in 2018. Fukushima demo, Japan 7 Fukushima Forward Mitsubishi 7MW ¥12.5bn Iberdrola secured a UK Contract “We cannot take success for $220m, 24MW Atlantic City project project by issuing separate request- in spring 2016. The Bureau of Ocean Deepwater’s Wind’s floater proposal Henderson said all offshore UK to implement a radar mitigation “drive value” and make the We should be competitive if The development team TOTAL 3.55GW for Difference in February for the granted,” said one market player. “We in New Jersey after a last-ditch court for-proposal packages for foundation Energy Management has granted and has formed a task force to wind farms should have an solution for the 258MW Burbo 2 Round 2 wind farm one of the not the most competitive.” recently also filed for a non- four-way international alliance 714MW East Anglia 1 with a £119/MWh must earn our place in the market appeal failed. design and construction, foundation environmental approval for the pilot, recommend off-take options. “The Coming in 2016 action plan as export cables wind farm that will remove clutter most competitive in the North Water depths at the site material change that will A pulled the trigger on the £1.5 bid and Mainstream picked up a CfD with every step that we take.” n “We’re asking now that a new installation, turbine erection, cable which features twin GE/Alstom Haliade principle focus right now is securing carry the highest risk of failure from air traffic control at John Lennon Sea. are 18 metres and monopile extend and reconfigure an billion, 336MW Galloper wind farm Gode 1&2, Germany 582 Dong Siemens 6MW €2.2bn application window be opened for supply and installation, as well as 150 6MW turbines on Keystone a revenue contract,” said Deepwater of any project component. Liverpool airport. Installation work is Initial tie-ups will be sealed foundations could carry next- already controversial onshore off Suffolk last month with the UK Westermeerwind, Netherlands 144 Westermeerwind Siemens 3MW €400m state-water projects,” said Fishermen’s transmission interconnection. twisted jacket foundations. Wind chief executive Jeff Grybowski. “We have been involved due to wrap up next year to coincide early next year, he said, generation turbines of 6MW, substation at Bicker Fen. Green Investment Bank, Siemens Block Island, US 30 Deepwater GE/Alstom 6MW $360m Germany to steal the UK’s thunder chief operating officer Paul Gallagher. The regulated utility expects to On the Pacific coast, a new Oregon In the meantime the project has in every single export with construction at the Round 2.5 although the exact size of 7MW or 8MW, said Cotter, Financial close at Triton Financial Services and Macquarie Donghai Bridge 2, China 102 Shanghai Donghai Shanghai 3.6MW €340m ermany is playing catch-up with a much more sedate pace with no shrunk from 30MW to a maximum cable repair in the UK this project. the prize on offer remains although smaller hardware is anticipated in 2017 with Capital teaming up with RWE Innogy. Formosa demo, Taiwan 8 Formosa Wind Siemens 4MW tbc Gthe world-leading UK offshore projects going online in 2016 and 25MW. Two to three 6MW to 8MW year. There have been five to be confirmed pending will get the vote if the costs fit. onshore construction to start Onshore construction of the TOTAL 866GW wind market thanks to the flurry of 730MW to go live in 2017 across two turbines on WindFloat platforms will breakages and it is a lot more n MT Hojgaard has been cleared the outcome of the next Two or three manufacturers the same year. substation at Leiston started this installations continuing through the commercial builds and two demos. be deployed 29km off Coos Bay in format for Scheduled for 2017 common than some think,” he of any liability for the cost of repairs month with site enabling works water depths averaging 350 metres. Blyth, UK 42.5 EDF tbc £149m end of 2017. Roles will reverse in 2018 with the added. to grouted foundations at Eon’s already complete. Cabling will begin Rope access blade repair, BOEM is expected to publish an Burbo 2, UK 256 Dong MHI Vestas 8MW £896m The country will ride above the UK building 1976MW and Germany Aside from Gwynt y Mor 174MW off at Sizewell beach next spring with i n s p e c t i o n s a n d environmental assessment in 2016. Dudgeon, UK 402 Statoil Siemens 6MW £1.5bn ongoing Northern European build 785MW while 2019 will see-saw back itself, other UK offshore Scotland. The Supreme Court in offshore construction kicking off gap with 582MW expected online in the other way with 1038MW going up Hywind 2, UK 30 Statoil Siemens 6MW Nkr2bn c o a t i n g s r e p a i r s p e c i a l i s t s wind farms to suffer export London dismissed an appeal against later in the summer. First power is 2016 and 1481MW due to go live the in the UK and 1452MW in Germany. Nordergrunde, Germany 111 WPD Senvion 6.15MW €410m outages over the past year a lower court ruling and confirmed no expected in summer 2017 with full following year ahead of a change to Overall by end-decade around “...Leedco aims to select a Nordsee 1, Germany 332 Northland Senvion 6.15MW €1.2bn include Vattenfall’s 300MW damages would be paid to the utility operations slated for March 2018. feed-in support levels. 10GW will be live in the UK with Sandbank, Germany 288 Vattenfall Siemens 4MW €1.2bn Thanet and Eon’s 174MW developer. Siemens will supply and install 56 Front runners place The UK will by comparison run at Germany hitting up to 7.7GW. n WHY YOU CHOOSE US 3MW turbine by year-end Robin Rigg, EDS said. The contractor said it will book 6MW turbines using a Swire Blue Veja Mate, Germany 400 Highland Siemens 6MW €1.5bn Dkr195m held in reserve as income Ocean vessel. Wikinger, Germany 350 Iberdrola Adwen 5MW €1.4bn Offshore Painting Services is an ISO and IRATA accredited for the 18MW Icebreaker Alstom name this year as a result. Foundations will be installed by Gemini, Netherlands 600 Northland Siemens 4MW €2.8bn organisation offering complete corrosion protective solutions artwork is laid to rest GeoSea vessel Innovation with Sif Belwind 2, Belgium 165 Nobelwind MHI Vestas 3.3MW €655m and repair services to the renewable energy sector in particular, freshwater pilot...” n ScottishPower Renewables is and Smulders sub-contracted to bet on next decade Tahkoluoto, Finland 50 Hyotytuuli tbc €120m and the construction industry in general, specialising in high Alstom’s offshore wind mulling potential development of the fabricate the monopiles. Electrical Zhuhai Guishan, China 198 China Southern Ming Yang 3MW €640m specification coatings and blade repairs, including working at height. business will be rebranded East Anglia 2 wind farm off eastern works for the substation onshore ong, ScottishPower Renewables Planning Inspectorate’s desk with a TOTAL 3.22GW The DoE has deployed a lidar- as GE following the tie-up England. Discussions are ongoing “to and later offshore will be conducted Trio of developers and Vattenfall are among the decision due back in March 2016. equipped buoy to help characterise Expected in 2018 between the two companies. agree what a future EA2 project could by an Alstom and Petrofac joint few developers to start on Paperwork for Dong’s 2GW Hornsea 3 the wind resource. D Galloper, UK 336 RWE Siemens 6MW £1.54bn OUR SERVICES INCLUDE New chief executive Anders look like” in the southern part of the venture with jackets and topside laying plans for blueprints for the next decade. is expected to be filed by the year-end Two alternate projects have Soe Jensen said development Round 3 zone. to be produced by Heerema in The Danish giant is striding forward or early 2016. Race Bank, UK 580 Dong Siemens 6MW £2bn received a total of $6.7m each Rampion, UK 400 Eon MHI Vestas 3.45MW £1.3bn IRATA rope access Transition piece and tower of the 6MW Haliade 150 Hartlepool. their gigawatt-plus at its newly-acquired Hornsea Round 3 “We already knew that the (Hornsea surface coatings repair following further funding this week to turbine will continue as n The Crown Estate has appointed its VBMS has bagged a contract zone off the Yorkshire coast. Dong zone) had around 3GW of potential Walney 3 East, UK 330 Dong Siemens 7MW £1.16bn Wind turbine blade continue development and could win Walney 3 West, UK 330 Dong MHI Vestas 8MW £1.16bn repairs Substation surface coatings planned. former head of offshore wind Huub for array cable design, supply and Round 3 wind farms already has the 1.2GW Hornsea 1 and but after the takeover we wanted repair full backing if any of the original three “Customers always came den Rooijen as director of energy, installation with JDR sub-contracted 1GW Hornsea 2 projects in the system to scope the area ourselves and Arkonabecken, Germany 385 Eon tbc €1.3bn Wind turbine blade drop out. We require artwork to first and that will continue but minerals and infrastructure with to supply the 56 wires. The former with the former expected online in look closely at what Merkur, Germany 400 DEME/Windreich GE/Alstom 6MW €1.7bn inspections Wind turbine and tower cleaning The Lake Erie Energy Development we will look to change the way immediate effect. The switch follows TOWER POWER: Sembmarine the three-level topside. the jacket is taking shape as company will also supply and install 2020. we were happy to Rentel, Belgium 294 Otary Siemens 7MW €1.25bn L Corporation (Leedco) aims to select a we work and how far we can the departure of Rob Hastings. is on schedule to deliver Transformers have also been well. We are going very much the NKT-manufactured export line. n renews.biz Hornsea 2 is currently on the develop,” an insider 09 TOTAL 3.06GW 3MW turbine from a shortlist of three push the offshore industry the substation for Statoil’s delivered. to plan and we are getting OUR PHILOSOPHY “well-proven” suppliers by year-end Pencilled in for 2019 going forward,” said the Dane. n Danish offshore wind marine 402MW Dudgeon wind farm SPT Offshore is due to good feedback from (client) for the 18MW Icebreaker freshwater Beatrice, UK 588 SSE Siemens 7MW £2.1bn The Company prides itself on being built upon foundations based be compiled in InDesign “One thing we will be contractor DBB Jack-Up has secured off the east coast of England supply suction-bucket feet for Siemens,” he added. pilot. Fred Olsen Windcarrier will Neart na Gaoithe, UK 450 Mainstream Siemens 7MW £1.6bn on an ethos of excellence, with each member of the team making doing is looking to put more €100m of financing after raising the in August 2016. the foundation, a UK first. Dudgeon, off the seaside provide the full marine spread using their individual contribution; customer service and delivery is emphasis on designing future money through a four-year senior The jacket (pictured) is well Sembmarine managing town of Cromer in Norfolk, Borkum Riffgrund 2, Germany 450 Dong MHI Vestas 8MW €1.8bn K US vessels. products. Our capabilities secured bond. advanced at the company’s director Paul Thomson said: will feature 67 Siemens 6MW Borkum West 2.2, Germany 250 Trianel/EWE tbc €720m paramount in all that we do, supported by a commitment to Dosecc Exploration and Gardline have just got much greater,” Lowestoft yard with structural “We just have a few external turbines and is expected to Deutsche Bucht, Germany 252 Highland tbc €1bn technician training and development. Geosurvey this summer conducted he added. renews.biz work nearly complete on platforms to complete and go live in 2017. Hohe See, Germany 500 EnBW tbc €2bn geotechnical studies to inform final wherever possible to produce POSITIVE SOLUTIONS Horns Rev 3, Denmark 400 Vattenfall MHI Vestas 8MW €1.6bn design of the Universal Foundation Industry training forum the European Energy Centre Near-shore round, Denmark 350 Various, tbc tbc tbc MAKING CONTACT monobucket. 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Senvion Netherlands, in Autena, Zuid-Holland Noordoostpolder (NOP Agrowind), 14.5Flevoland Eneco 195 NOP Agrowindtbc Enercon project cost insights This session examines how emerging Rogle, Skane 23 Eolus Vind AB GE planning issues Some 133MW of capacity was ad they can click through to Chasing registered with BNetzA three 2.9GW from 2020. machines at the Leanamore January 2018 commissioning machines due to be installed reaching heights of up to 120 from low prices for electricity 15-machine project before Senvion meanwhile was will also provide 20 years of contrastinstalled to in many the first of half ofBijvanck, 2016 Noord-Hollandwith Noordoostpolder (Zuidwester), Flevoland12 Raedthuys 90 Innogy tbc Enercon being crimped by Design Tools for Ocean Energy Arrays IRELANDstorage technology can reduce O project in northern County date on the cards for the by year-end is all but agreed metres and capacities up to and green certificates the theSättravallen, Renewables Jamtland Obligation awarded48 a contract Pervindlast AB operations and maintenanceVestas despite generousits European the year-end neighbours, total is expected Noordoostpolder to hit (NOPSlufterdam, Agrowind), Zuid-Holland Flevoland 195 NOP45 Agrowind Nuon, EnecoEnercon tbc into(DTOcean) is an open-source product forunknown UK onshore All tocurtailment and balancing costs for Kerry. utility-developer. but still to be officially signed, 3.6MW. recommendations next regime expires next March. week to supply 151MW of at the wind farms. suffering from a shortage aimed at accelerating development of Innogy Renewables UK is to research by Imperial College “As the government considers renewables. Speakers include Statoil, Skäckarp, Kronoberg 36 Statkraft Södra Vindkraft tbc planning issues around 3.15GW. This year’sNoordoostpolder addition is (Zuidwester),TOTAL Flevoland 90 Innogy Enercon 406.5MW wave and tidal projects. p2 call on the government to London that is expected to a new industrial strategy, playSiemens and RES. IN BRIEF The site close to SSE’s Civil engineer Roadbridge it is understood. Unlike its neighbour, spring, once the final details Delivery of the hardware, turbines to a trio of Contract supports budget,of projects down ready considerably to take on the Slufterdam,2015 figure Zuid-Holland 45 Nuon, Eneco tbc 620MW Tarbert has been tapped to tackle all Developer Michael Rouse Sweden is feeling the pain of the transition in 2020 are whichSorbyparken, will feature Norrbotten for Difference-winning122 Krafto wind n Muirhall has beentbc given despite generous advantageof 427MW.of a subsidy pot. SDE+ scheme, excluding offshore provide a level playing for all set out a detailed analysis of it’s time that renewables, for asA2, Conference Theatre 1, TOTAL 406.5MW } Fred Olsen Renewables has Development partner Coriolis will have an installed capacity the main construction works is on the project team, which fromFOREST low pricesFRUIT: for EDF electricity has erected worked four of out. six GE 3.2MW 111-metre tips, is due to farms developed by Banks the go-ahead by Dumfries Some 133MW of capacity NETHERLANDS your website or specific web generation technologies by the available options for the including onshore wind, are 11.00–12.00 Stormon, Vasternorrland 16 HS Kraft Siemens writes Tim Probert The country is expected to fall at wind, is now €9bn. 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Successor of Bonus 2 MW, and the outcome of a long-time successful company Track record Introduction n.a. evolutionary product development and optimizing strategy; Onshore and offshore total numbers; Usage Onshore and offshore 3. No hints for a switch to pitch-controlled variable speed in March 2003, but 506 units Power electronics None introduced later that year - Bonus 2.3 MW VS; Drive train Non-integrated high-speed 4. Siemens acquired Bonus Energy in October 2004. geared with three-point gearbox for anyone sponsored reNEWS in the launch support. 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2-B Energy 2B6 ProjEcT DEPLoYMENT VITAL STATISTIcS 2-B Energy 2B6 ProjEct DEPLoYMENt VItAL StAtIStIcS IEC class I IEC class I Offshore projects Rotor diameter 140.6m Key characteristics Offshore projects Rotor diameter 140.6m Key characteristics features a comprehensive information on deployment, One wind farm in development – Power rating 6.0MW Radical two-bladed downwind turbine designed for 40-year service life, with ‘an One wind farm in development – Power rating 6.0MW Marketing Manager, Radical two-bladed downwind turbine designed for 40-year service life, with ‘an (2 units, UK, aimed for commissioning in Number of blades 2 integral plant approach.’ It further has two nacelle levels, a passive cooler platform, a (2 units, UK, aimed for commissioning in Number of blades 2 integral plant approach.’ It further has two nacelle levels, a passive cooler platform, a early 2017); perhaps rated above 6.0MW Orientation Downwind self-aligning ‘soft yaw’ system, and a lattice-type welded truss tower. The latter ‘open’ early 2017); perhaps rated above 6.0MW Orientation Downwind self-aligning ‘soft yaw’ system, and a lattice-type welded truss tower. The latter ‘open’ Operation Pitch-controlled variable speed structure extends from the seabed to the nacelle yaw bearing. Operation Pitch-controlled variable speed structure extends from the seabed to the nacelle yaw bearing. Product status Head mass n.a. Product status Head mass n.a. 2 Prototype installation completed in Specific power 386W/m2 Product notes Prototype installation completed in Specific power 386W/m Product notes Eemshaven (NL) at September 30, 2015 Prototype Onshore second half 2015 1. Modular platform design aimed at rapid future up scaling in line with market Eemshaven (NL) at September 30, 2015 Prototype Onshore second half 2015 1. Modular platform design aimed at rapid future up scaling in line with market catalogue of the past, present turbine specifics and history, Natural Power Introduction Announced 2007 Introduction Announced 2007 demand; demand; Track record Usage Offshore 2. ‘Soft yaw’ capability means that the rotor follows wind direction changes Track record Usage Offshore 2. ‘Soft yaw’ capability means that the rotor follows wind direction changes Onshore prototype Power electronics Medium voltage automatically in normal operating mode, and then only requires some nacelle yaw Onshore prototype Power electronics Medium voltage automatically in normal operating mode, and then only requires some nacelle yaw generation system eliminates ‘traditional dampening motion. In emergency situations, like a combination of extreme weather generation system eliminates ‘traditional dampening motion. In emergency situations, like a combination of extreme weather full size transformer’ at turbine level. and/or turbine failure, eight yaw motors are activated for bringing the turbine in a full size transformer’ at turbine level. and/or turbine failure, eight yaw motors are activated for bringing the turbine in a Drive train Three-stage gearbox with side safe non-operating position. The extra ninth motor provides system redundancy; Drive train Three-stage gearbox with side safe non-operating position. The extra ninth motor provides system redundancy; torque supports and a DFIG. and future of offshore and is an indispensable 3. Modest 78-metre rated tip speed. torque supports and a DFIG. 3. Modest 78-metre rated tip speed.

Bonus 2.3 MW ProjEcT DEPLoYMENT VITAL STATISTIcS Bonus 2.3 MW ProjEct DEPLoYMENt VItAL StAtIStIcS wind turbine development, desktop reference for anyone IEC class Initially likely none; Get ahead of the market IEC class Initially likely none; Offshore projects later SWT-2.3-82 VS, IEC IA Key characteristics Offshore projects later SWT-2.3-82 VS, IEC IA Key characteristics 3 wind farms / project turbine – Rotor diameter 82.4m The Bonus 2.3MW partly represents the ‘classic’ Danish design philosophy, including 3 wind farms / project turbine – Rotor diameter 82.4m The Bonus 2.3MW partly represents the ‘classic’ Danish design philosophy, including Samsø (10 units, 2002, DK)*; Power rating 2.3MW especially a non-integrated high-speed drivetrain with three-point gearbox support, Samsø (10 units, 2002, DK)*; Power rating 2.3MW especially a non-integrated high-speed drivetrain with three-point gearbox support, Rødsand/Nysted (72 units, 2003, DK); Number of blades 3 fixed-speed(s) and induction generator; switch to CombiStall with pitch able blades, Rødsand/Nysted (72 units, 2003, DK); Number of blades 3 fixed-speed(s) and induction generator; switch to CombiStall with pitch able blades, Frederikshavn (1 unit, 2003, DK); Orientation Upwind first introduced in Bonus 1 MW (54m); CombiStall offers superior output control with Frederikshavn (1 unit, 2003, DK); Orientation Upwind first introduced in Bonus 1 MW (54m); CombiStall offers superior output control with * one Samsø turbine lost a complete head Operation CombiStall (active stall) including sections on floating involved in the industry, at a near-constant output level above rated and independent of weather conditions, and * one Samsø turbine lost a complete head Operation CombiStall (active stall) a near-constant output level above rated and independent of weather conditions, and by taking up our OTY (nacelle + rotor) at November 28, 2015 controlled fixed speed (nacelle + rotor) at November 28, 2015 controlled fixed speed eliminates the need for bi-annual blade angle adjustment; two-speed generator. eliminates the need for bi-annual blade angle adjustment; two-speed generator. Head mass 136T (Nacelle 82T, Rotor 54T); Head mass 136T (Nacelle 82T, Rotor 54T); Product status figures SWT-2.3-82 VS Product notes Product status figures SWT-2.3-82 VS Product notes 2 No more available Specific power 431W/m2 1. Fitted with in-house developed and manufactured one-piece-moulding Bonus B40 No more available Specific power 431W/m 1. Fitted with in-house developed and manufactured one-piece-moulding Bonus B40 Prototype 1999 blades; Prototype 1999 blades; Track record Introduction n.a. 2. Successor of Bonus 2 MW, and the outcome of a long-time successful company Track record Introduction n.a. 2. Successor of Bonus 2 MW, and the outcome of a long-time successful company wind, installation vessels and whatever level. Onshore and offshore total numbers; Usage Onshore and offshore evolutionary product development and optimizing strategy; Onshore and offshore total numbers; Usage Onshore and offshore Sponsorship Package. evolutionary product development and optimizing strategy; 506 units Power electronics None 3. No hints for a switch to pitch-controlled variable speed in March 2003, but 506 units Power electronics None 3. No hints for a switch to pitch-controlled variable speed in March 2003, but Drive train Non-integrated high-speed introduced later that year - Bonus 2.3 MW VS; Drive train Non-integrated high-speed introduced later that year - Bonus 2.3 MW VS; geared with three-point gearbox 4. Siemens acquired Bonus Energy in October 2004. geared with three-point gearbox 4. Siemens acquired Bonus Energy in October 2004. foundation suppliers. It is free to subscribers and Your company logo support. support. Siemens SWT-4.0-130 ProjEcT DEPLoYMENT VITAL STATISTIcS IEC class IB Key characteristics Offshore projects Rotor diameter 130m The new G4 platform is a comprehensive evolutionary further development and First installed offshore in 2015; Power rating 4.0MW redesign of the SWT-3.6-120. It includes the SWT-4.0-130, and the SWT-4.0-120 sister under construction: Number of blades 3 The third annual edition will be distributed at major Sandbank (72 units, 2017, GE) Orientation Upwind on the front cover (A); model version with 120-metre rotor of the 3.6MW SWT-3.6-120. The SWT-4.0-130 remains a dedicated lightweight offshore turbine with high-speed drivetrain and and Gemini (150 units, 2017, NL) Operation Pitch-controlled variable speed several design features promoting cost-effective service-friendly upkeep; among others Head mass 240T (Nacelle 140T Rotor 100T) 2 fitted with new aero-elastically tailored slender B63 blades. Product status Specific power 301W/m Commercially available Prototype Onshore, December 2012; Product notes initially fitted with 120-metre rotor of the respected OTY – offshore wind shows. 1. The evolutionary SWT-4.0-130 further builds on the success of the original SWT-3.6- Track record Introduction 2012; start serial your company name 107 and SWT-3.6-120 successor, offering higher AEP and reduced LCOE; Offshore total numbers - n.a. production 2015; 2. New-generation aero-elastically tailored slender blades. They were a key enabler in Usage Offshore; combining improved performance with reduced turbine loading Power electronics Siemens NetConverter 3. The SWT-4.0-130 according the supplier offers around 13% yield increase compared and MV-transformer in tower base to the SWT-3.6-120 at typical 9-10m/s mean wind speed sites. Drive train Non-integrated high-speed published in June 2018 – will A range of advertising and on every page (B); and geared with four-point gearbox support be further updated and sponsorship opportunities are a half-page advert on K K expanded to bring readers available (see right). Book now the first inside page (C). additional entries on cable lay to avoid disappointment. J vessels and service fleets.

2O17 66 Format Red-hot pressure to cut costs is driving innovation and alliances as fabrication yards battle for slice of the Offshore Turbine Yearbook n We require artwork to be compiled mitigate conflicts with our PC-based offshore wind contracting pie, writes Stephen Dunne

abrication yards across in InDesign wherever possible to production system. contract at the 588MW Europe are exploring in the ways to cut costs in the 2O16 F Moray Firth and has been expectation developers will joined on the job by the produce 150dpi RGB PDFs with all n The advertisement should be full- squeeze every last penny Wallsend yard in Newcastle out of the supply chain as now run by Smulders offshore wind prices hit rock SponSored by Projects. bottom. Northern Ireland’s Harland (A) fonts fully embedded. colour and can include a link so that The major players are & Wolff has emerged as a big- working with turbine hitter after a number of years manufacturers and in the doldrums. developers to create What does NOT work well are when the reader places their cursor The Belfast yard is working standardised foundation 03 on jackets for the 714MW designs, said fabrication East Anglia 1 project off the SponSored by industry sources, while some English east coast and has 2O16 are looking to mechanise (B)equipped with a distance condition- adverts created as ‘images’ using for over the ad they can click through to also nailed a deal to fabricate compared with coastal monitoring systems and multiple production lines in a bid to 02 onshore equivalents. sensors. A shared feature is a suction buckets for jackets In these pioneering medium-speed drive train with BABY STEPS: the world’s first offshorePhoto: Dong permanent magnet generator and wind farm, Vindeby, employed 450kW reduce labour costs and cases turbine designers and support that will feature at the 450MW 164 to 180-metre rotor diameters. Bonus turbines Another radical option is the multi- structure development partners The output leap between the early rotor turbine. The principle has been speed up delivery. had to cope with many uncertainties less complex. However, the maximum Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm 450kW and latest 8MW turbines around since the mid-1920s but including their limited understanding aerodynamic efficiency is about example Photoshop. We then lose your website or specific web page. approaches a factor of 18. only one 300kW unit with four “The downward trend in of specific marine conditions so its 38% versus typically 45% to 50% for in the German North Sea. rotors became reality. A Dutch long-running success is all the more horizontal-axis formats while power ome observers see the future of 6MW Multiwind MWT-6000 concept offshore wind (prices) has surprising. output control is far more complex. was never built the offshore wind industry as large described in OTY2016 Northern English contender However, while the Wind World S These known disadvantages, two-bladed turbines because they but this year Vestas erected a 900kW happened quicker than and Bonus machines may look largely combined with the fact that there is OSB has also continued its enable more efficient sea transport prototype with four rotors. similar to today’s 6MW to 8MW ‘super little to no offshore experience with logistics and single-hoist installation Experts differ on the likely pace expected,” said the chief class’ turbines, the differences in vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT), of complete heads. Integration of a and even a possible limit to further clarity when we distil into a PDF. All It is important that you inform us success by winning transition technology along with the marine and must be compensated by clear helicopter-landing platform is also up-scaling of offshore wind turbines, executive of one of the best- environmental challenges are vast. benefits in order to force successful technically feasible. including what could be the most piece fabrication duties for The MHI Vestas V164-8.0MW and market entry and staying power. Others reckon two-bladed rotors optimal solutions and sizes. known fabricators active in Adwen AD 8-180 models are currently Yet market breakthrough with are dynamically unbalanced requiring Three-bladed, high-speed geared the 1.2GW Hornsea 1 wind the world’s most powerful turbines. radical concepts has so far proven advanced control strategies and/or designs still dominate but the coming offshore wind. Both are dedicated offshore machines hard, typically hampered by use of a teeter hub to overcome this years will see a rapidly growing role farm off Yorkshire. designed for demanding high-wind, bankability and track record demands, inherent disadvantage especially for direct drive and medium-speed “We have got to look at deep-water locations far from shore. real risk and risk perception. logos and graphics must be vectors. of any embedded URLs when the manifest during yawing. turbines in the 6MW to 8MW class. Cost-cutting and innovative They operate with advanced pitch Furthermore, full industrialisation Vertical-axis Darrieus type turbines Siemens is talking about the introduction other ways like introducing controlled variable speed and are of a new 7MW to 8MW turbine might have their supporters, especially in of 10MW to 12MW hardware. approaches such as require an investment in the region of combination with floating structures. Only time will tell which future robot technology, more €200m to €250m. These factors above LISTINGS GUIDE Radical concepts like the 10MW turbine technologies, sizes and partnering with overseas Turbines in OTY2016 have all explain why proven conventional Aerogenerator garnered huge initial configurations will ultimately proven the outsourcing to cheaper been listed in order of wind technology is preferred, pushed current, future and historic publicity. absolute winners in the market. yards are helping drive more by powerful established suppliers models from pages 4, 21 and Darrieus installations can draw artwork is sent over. Our production locations like Asia, and 24, respectively. Images are wielding the necessary financial clout. work to English, Scottish and reproduced courtesy of the from all directions without needing a standardised designs to meet relevant manufacturer unless yaw system, thus making the designs Northern Irish locations, said otherwise stated. developer demands for lower UK sources. Natural Power Off shore costs.” Turbine Inspections In Spain, Navantia n Graphic providers working on process requires that we re-embed this The pace of growth in completed its first offshore terms of the size and power Our qualifi ed engineers perform: wind contract last year, → Factory inspections of offshore wind turbines Onsite turbine assembly monitoring fabricating jackets for → → Snagging and commissioning is storing up trouble for inspections Macs may be asked to forward information before publication; if we Iberdrola’s 350MW Wikinger the future, warned another → Blade inspections project in the German Baltic End of warranty inspections source. Dong has based its → Sea, and has followed up with → Periodic health inspections winning ‘subsidy-free’ bids off → Client representative for WTG a similar contract for East package management Germany on 13MW to 15MW (C) InDesign ‘packages’ (containing are unaware of its existence the link Anglia 1. naturalpower.com hardware being available by The yard is also fabricating [email protected] the middle of the next decade the offshore substation for but the parameters of such the latter project and is keen original images and fonts, etc) to may be lost. machines are unknown. to add more offshore wind The consensus is jackets work to its order book. will emerge as the dominant Elsewhere, fabrication foundation approach for the of monopiles at Sif’s new larger turbines but some Maasvlakte 2 facility in are worried that a lack of Rotterdam is in full flow. information on the next The Dutch company generation of hardware will Speak to SALES said the plant, which can Send your advertisement by email to delay the design of future fabricate monopiles with foundations. 11-metre diameters, gives it a Competition in the “competitive edge” in tubular for the package price. fabrication industry is [email protected] manufacturing. meanwhile heating up as Maasvlakte 2 has already yards from the UK, Spain and loaded out monopiles for the farther afield challenge for 336MW Galloper wind farm and win work. off the English east coast UK players have made and is working on a number significant breakthroughs of other contracts including in the past 12 months. manufacture of tubulars for For booking and copy deadlines Scotland’s BiFab has secured the 497MW Hohe See project FABRICATION YARDS a jacket foundation supply off Germany.n please contact our sales team 2018 Media Pack profiles 09 Reach your target audience through our web traffic!

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