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Orsted pilots noise reducing technology for offshore wind foundations - Orsted Pilots Noise-Lowering Know-how for Offshore Wind Foundations

Orsted pilots noise reducing technology for offshore wind foundations - Orsted Pilots Noise-Lowering Know-how for Offshore Wind Foundations

Orsted Pilots Noise-Lowering Know-how for Offshore Wind Foundations

by Marvin Brant
April 14, 2025
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Constructing on current marine life protections, Ørsted has developed a brand new, lower-noise set up methodology that might probably revolutionize the best way offshore wind foundations are put in.

The groundbreaking new expertise has been efficiently examined in Germany, proving that this method can dramatically scale back noise ranges throughout basis installations, strengthening current protections to marine life and probably paving the best way for the subsequent era of monopile foundations.

Ørsted is already implementing a spread of efficient protecting measures throughout offshore wind farm development, together with limiting the period, depth or extent of sure offshore development actions. Examples of those mitigating measures embody the deployment of bubble curtains or different noise boundaries throughout conventional set up. The brand new set up methodology permits Ørsted to additional scale back the potential affect from development actions on the marine setting and construct in a more cost effective means.

On the new German offshore wind farm Gode Wind 3, Ørsted has efficiently examined an set up methodology on three monopile foundations. The noise mitigation methodology includes a patented jetting expertise hooked up to the monopile, which lowers the resistance of the encircling sandy soil, successfully permitting the inspiration to sink into the seabed — utterly changing standard set up strategies resembling pile driving.

Implementation of the brand new set up expertise has resulted in a considerable lower in underwater noise ranges: With a discount of 34 decibels relative to essentially the most generally used set up methodology, and with out further mitigation, noise ranges have been lowered by over 99 % to a stage simply marginally above the ambient noise discovered within the German Bight within the North Sea. 

Past noise discount, this new expertise is a change in offshore wind monopile set up that, as soon as adopted at scale, can present for extra environment friendly and cost-effective installations of offshore wind foundations. Already put in are 11-MW wind generators on high of the foundations, and Gode Wind 3 is predicted to start out industrial operation later in 2024.

“Ørsted has been on the forefront of offshore wind innovation and marine protections for 30 years, and we proceed to push the envelope on new revolutionary options,” says Patrick Harnett, govt vice chairman and chief working officer at Ørsted. “This new expertise is a possible game-changer for a way we construct offshore wind. As soon as industrialized, it couldn’t solely be cheaper, quicker and much quieter — with out further mitigation — than some other monopile set up expertise, it additionally has the potential to make next-generation foundations lighter as they received’t should be designed for standard set up course of.”

That is the primary time a jetting expertise has been used to put in full-size monopile foundations, making the assessments a milestone for the business. Ørsted carried out the set up along with Jan De Nul Group and its set up vessel Les Alizés, in addition to contractor Aarsleff.

Ørsted has been creating the expertise over the previous years and is now exploring methods to introduce the expertise into the long run pipeline, which incorporates assessing the feasibility of the strategy on extra complicated floor situations than the pure sand situations discovered on the Gode Wind 3 website. Additional regulatory approvals will even be wanted earlier than the expertise will be carried out in different markets globally.

Marvin Brant

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