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RWE Innogy UK
completed foundation installation
at the world’s second largest wind farm
2014-04-28 + + + The installation of all 160 foundations
at the world’s second largest wind farm, Gwynt y Môr, has been
successfully completed. The final transition piece was installed on
Wednesday 23rd April more than eight miles off the North Wales coast by
RWE’s jack up installation vessel, Friedrich Ernestine. The vessel has now
completed its scope of work and will sail to Germany to install turbines
at Gwynt y Môr’s sister project, Nordsee Ost.
Gwynt y Môr is a
greater than £2billion offshore wind farm on schedule to become fully
constructed in 2014, and will be capable of generating enough energy from
renewable sources to power the equivalent of approximately 400,000 homes -
around a third of the total number of homes in all of Wales.
RWE
Innogy UK’s Gwynt y Môr’s Project Director, Toby Edmonds said: “This is a
tremendous milestone for the project. Foundations consist of a monopile
and a transition piece and the first of these was installed on 8th August
2012, using the heavy lift vessel, Stanislav Yudin. Since then a number of
other vessels, including the Friedrich Ernestine, have joined the project
to carry out foundation installation activity which is always a
technically challenging part of the construction process. With this
achievement behind us we can focus on installing the final 19 turbines,
commissioning the entire array and bringing on line a highly capable
renewable energy source, powered from the UK’s own freely available
natural resources and able to support approximately 400,000 homes.”
For its scope of work at Gwynt y Môr, the Friedrich Ernestine was
fitted with the world’s largest reverse circulation pile top drill. The
LDD500 was designed and built in the UK by Cornwall based LDD, who also
provided a team to operate the drill offshore.
Friedrich Ernestine was
built and is operated by RWE Innogy’s subsidiary RWE OLC GmbH. Its Chief
Financial Officer, Peter Sharman said: “We are very proud that the first
commission for Friedrich Ernestine has successfully completed. This
campaign has fully proven the year round operating capabilities, in the
tough offshore conditions in which this vessel was designed to operate. We
are very pleased with the extremely high technical availability that has
been provided to the Gwynt y Môr project. The Friedrich Ernestine will now
travel to Bremerhaven to team up with her sister vessel the Victoria
Matthias in the installation of the wind turbines at the Nordsee Ost wind
farm.”
The construction of Gwynt y Môr to date, has enabled the
injection of over £350million into the UK supply chain, created and
secured employment for over 2,500 people in the UK, and is expected to
sustain over 100 jobs long term through a new multi-million pound
operations and maintenance base, which is being built at the Port of
Mostyn in North Wales.
At the same time, North Wales Communities have
been consulted on how to most usefully invest over £19million in community
funding over the wind farm's working lifetime. This is in addition to a
£690,000 Tourism Fund.
Source: RWE Innogy
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