Two transformers for the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm have accomplished their overland and sea journey from Zagreb, Croatia. The transformers traveled through Rotterdam, Netherlands, earlier than arriving on the Smulders yard in Wallsend, the UK.
The 545 MVA transformers had been manufactured by Koncar Energy Transformers firm situated in Zagreb.
Now that the models have arrived at Smulders yard in Wallsend, they are going to be assembled and examined by the Siemens Vitality workforce previous to being lifted onto the Inch Cape Offshore Transformer Module (OTM).
A consortium of Siemens Vitality and Iemants, a Smulders subsidiary, is liable for the supply of the offshore substation for the Scottish undertaking situated 15 kilometres off the Angus coast.
Siemens Vitality can be liable for the design and development of the undertaking’s onshore substation in Cockenzie, East Lothian.
The meeting and fit-out of the offshore substation platform and jacket basis for the 1.1 GW offshore wind undertaking began in November 2023.
The Inch Cape offshore wind farm will function 72 Vestas V236-15.0 MW generators, that might be put in by Denmark’s Cadeler. The facility the undertaking generates will enter the nationwide transmission system at Cockenzie.
The offshore wind farm growth, owned by Inch Cape Offshore Wind Restricted, a three way partnership between Pink Rock Restricted and ESB, is deliberate to generate sufficient renewable vitality to energy the equal of roughly 1.6 million UK houses.
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