West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm

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Offshore wind farm "West of Duddon Sands"
West of Duddon Sands as seen from Blackpool
West of Duddon Sands of Blackpool seen from
location
West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm (England)
West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm
Coordinates 53 ° 58 '59 "  N , 3 ° 27' 47"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '59 "  N , 3 ° 27' 47"  W.
country United Kingdom
Waters Irish Sea
Data
Type Offshore wind farm
Primary energy Wind energy
power 389 MW (electric)
owner ScottishPower Renewables, Ørsted
operator Morecambe Wind Ltd.
Start of operations 2014
founding Monopile
turbine 108 × Siemens SWT-3.6-120
Website scottishpowerrenewables.com
was standing December 2019
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West of Duddon Sands is in the Irish Sea situated offshore wind farm , which the island is about 14 kilometers southwest Walney off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness is. It was developed by Morecambe Wind Ltd , a joint venture between the energy companies ScottishPower and Dong Energy , which each hold 50% of the shares.

General

The offshore wind farm got its name from a large sandbar located at the mouth of the Duddon River in the north of the Furness Peninsula . It is located south of the sandbank and covers an area of ​​around 67 km². There are three other wind farms in the vicinity: the east lies the Barrow Offshore Wind Farm , in the north of Ormonde Wind Farm and very close to the northwest of the offshore wind farm Walney .

The construction costs were estimated at around 1.6 billion pounds, of which about 40% is accounted for by the costs of the wind turbines themselves. Electricity production is expected to correspond to the average consumption of 300,000 British households .

history

In 2004, Morecambe Wind received a 50-year permit from Crown Estate to develop a wind farm in the area described above as part of the second offshore tender, known as Round 2 . The project comprised the installation of the wind turbines and their foundations , the construction of the transformer platform , the laying of the inner- park cabling and the high-voltage cables, and the construction of a transformer station to link it to the UK power grid operated by National Grid . The construction time was estimated at two years. A total of 82 km of submarine cables and 22 km of cable sections on land are required for the high-voltage cables operated with a voltage of 155  kV .

The building permit was applied for in April 2006 and granted in September 2008. According to the building application, between 83 and 139 wind turbines with a nominal output of 500  MW were to be built, but due to geological aspects only a permit was granted for the construction of 108 plants with a nominal output of 389 MW.

Construction work began in 2012 and the first wind turbine was installed in September 2013. In January 2014, a turbine fed electricity into the UK grid for the first time. The last of the 108 wind turbines was installed at the beginning of June 2014. The full commissioning took place two months ahead of schedule. On October 30, 2014 the wind farm was officially opened by the British Energy Minister Edward Davey .

technology

Wind turbines of the type Siemens SWT 3.6-120 with a nominal output of 3.6 MW, a rotor diameter of 120 meters and a hub height of 90 meters are used, the total height of the turbines up to the rotor tip is 150 meters. The wind turbines were installed at water depths between 17 and 24 meters. Monopiles were used as the foundation . The wind turbines are connected to the wind farm's own transformer platform via medium-voltage cables , the transformers of which transform the AC voltage from 33 kV to 155 kV. From the transformer platform, the electrical energy is brought ashore via two high-voltage submarine cables and fed into the network via another transformer station .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dong Energy Internet site , accessed June 22, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dongenergy.co.uk
  2. ^ Iberdrola Orders $ 993 Million of Siemens Turbines for Wind Farm . Bloomberg Internet site, accessed June 23, 2014
  3. ^ Non-Technical Summary of the project . ScottishPower Internet site, accessed June 22, 2014
  4. ↑ NKT wind sea cable order for Scottish wind farm ( Memento of the original dated May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 22, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jernindustri.dk
  5. ^ Key project dates for West of Duddon Sands . www.4coffshore.com, accessed June 22, 2014
  6. ^ West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm, United Kingdom . In: Power Technology , accessed June 23, 2014
  7. ^ Turbines installed at West of Duddon Sands . In: Windpower Offshore , June 4, 2014, accessed June 23, 2014
  8. ^ Iberdrola, Dong Offshore Wind Farm Reaches Full Output . In: Bloomberg News , October 30, 2014, accessed October 31, 2014