Ormonde offshore wind farm
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ N , 3 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
| country | United Kingdom | ||
| Waters | Irish Sea | ||
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| Type | Offshore wind farm | ||
| Primary energy | Wind energy | ||
| power | 150 MW (electric) | ||
| owner | Vattenfall | ||
| Start of operations | 2011 | ||
| founding | Jackets | ||
| turbine | 30 × REpower 5M | ||
| Energy fed in per year | 500 GWh | ||
| Website | powerplants.vattenfall.com/de/ormonde | ||
| was standing | June 2014 | ||
Ormonde is an offshore wind farm operated by Vattenfall in the Irish Sea with an installed capacity of 150 MW .
General
It is located 10 km west of Barrow-in-Furness in a water depth of 17 to 30 meters and covers an area of 8.7 km². The Walney , Barrow and West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farms are also nearby . On site, the average wind speed at a height of 80 meters is 9 m / s. The forecast annual electricity yield is 500 GWh , which, according to the company, can supply 100,000 households. The capacity factor is thus approx. 38%.
30 wind turbines of the type REpower 5M with a nominal output of 5 MW each, a hub height of 90 meters and a rotor diameter of 126 meters are installed. Jacket foundations were used as the foundation for the turbines, which were manufactured in the REpower plant in Bremerhaven and loaded onto the Sea Jack jack-up platform in Belfast . The electricity generated is fed into the public power grid in the substation in Heysham , to which the wind farm's transformer platform, which is also based on a jacket foundation , is connected by a 42 km long submarine cable . The neighboring Barrow offshore wind farm and phase 1 of the Walney offshore wind farm, which is also located nearby, also feed into the same substation .
history
The wind farm was originally planned by Eclipse Energy as a hybrid power plant consisting of the wind farm and a 90 MW gas power plant . After Vattenfall bought Eclipse Energy, the project was planned as a purely offshore wind farm. The building permit was granted at the beginning of 2007 and construction began in 2008, although initially only onshore work was carried out. After the contract for the delivery of the wind turbines was awarded to REpower in July 2009, offshore work began in May 2010. After the foundations had been installed, the wind turbines were erected between March and August 2011. The submarine cable was put into operation at the end of April 2011 and electricity production began in summer 2011. The wind farm was finally completed and commissioned in February 2012.
In December Vattenfall sold 49% of the shares in the Swedish pension fund AMF.
See also
Web links
- Ormonde wind farm on the Vattenfall website
- Ormonde wind farm (LORC)
- Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm ( Memento from December 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The Ormonde Project ) (PDF; 2.4 MB). Presentation of Eclipse Energy. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
- ↑ Ormonde ( Memento of January 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Vattenfall website. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
- ↑ Last turbine installed in the Ormonde offshore wind farm . In: Windkraft-Journal , August 14, 2011. Accessed November 12, 2011.
- ↑ REpower and Vattenfall sign contract for 150 megawatts for an offshore wind farm off the British Isles . REpower press release from July 15, 2009. Accessed November 13, 2011.
- ↑ Offshore wind farm ›Ormonde‹ feeds the first electricity into the grid ( memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: www.cicweb.de , August 22, 2011. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ↑ Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm ready for full power . Vattenfall press release dated February 22, 2012. Accessed February 25, 2012.
- ^ Vattenfall sells half of Ormonde . In: Windpower Monthly , December 18, 2015. Accessed December 18, 2015.