- Can rolled-out for the first XXL monopile
- The shipyard will be building monopiles and jackets for Ocean Winds simultaneously.
Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables have started the production of the first of the 14 monopiles for the Moray West project, with the rolling of the first can. Over the next few months, the Fene shipyard will simultaneously build XXL monopiles and jackets for Ocean Winds.
This milestone strengthens the Navantia-Windar business alliance, which has become the only European supplier capable of building all three types of offshore wind foundations: monopiles, jackets and floating structures.
Monopiles will have an approximate length of 90 metres, a maximum diameter of 10 metres and a maximum weight of 2,000 tonnes. This type of XXL monopiles, the product with the largest market share among fixed foundations, is new in Navantia-Windar’s portfolio.
Moray West, the farm for which the monopiles are intended, is being developed by Ocean Winds in the western area of the Moray Firth offshore wind farm, some 22km off the coast of Caithness in Scotland, and will have a generating capacity of 882 MW through 60 14.7 MW turbines.
The overall execution period is 10 months, generating 280,000 working hours and an average of 150 direct jobs per month for the manufacture of the 14 XXL monopiles.
Last November, the LEMS consortium to which Ocean Winds belongs awarded Navantia-Windar the construction of 62 jackets for wind turbines, which will also be built in Fene (A Coruña), for its offshore wind farm in Dieppe le Tréport, in the waters of northern France. The manufacturing work will begin in the first quarter of 2023 and will last approximately two years and four million working hours. Therefore, two types of foundations will be produced for the same customer over a period of a few months.
Ocean Winds, a Spanish company, was created in 2019 as a 50/50 joint venture between EDPR and the French multinational ENGIE, and is currently one of the most important offshore wind developers in the international arena. It has 1.5 GW in operation in Europe, 0.9 GW under construction and 14.2 GW under development in the UK, France, Portugal, Belgium, Poland, USA and South Korea.
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