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Construction of New Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm Completed by Vattenfall

Published Aug 9, 2011 11:30 AM by The Maritime Executive

The Energy company Vattenfall completed the installation of the final turbine at its new offshore wind farm Ormonde off the coast of north-west England. Vattenfall now looks forward to generate electricity from the wind farm for the first time later this summer. Ormonde's 30 REpower 5M wind turbines have a total installed capacity of 150 MW.

According to Vattenfall the project is the first commercial and largest deployment of Scotland's Burntisland Fabrications’ steel lattice 'quadruped' foundation and REpower's 5M turbine. Offshore construction started in 2010 and by the summer of that year the steel lattice quadruped jacket foundations had been installed. The first wind turbine at Ormonde was lifted onto the foundation and installed on 23 March this year. All thirty wind turbines have been installed until August. The additional foundation supports the wind farm’s substation.

PHOTO CAPTION:  REpower 5M wind turbine.

The REpower 5M wind turbine built in a factory in Germany with the components – rotor, nacelle and tower sections – transported to the Harland & Wolff docks in Belfast. From here the turbines were transported two-by-two to the Ormonde site on board the SeaJack which was pulled by two tugs. 

 

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