Frimley, UK, 2015-Dec-07
- 30 MW “Hywind Scotland” project with five Siemens turbines of Six-Megawatt-class
- Collaboration on floating wind turbines started in 2009
The turbines will be installed on floating foundations operating in water depths between 90 and 120 meters. The world´s largest floating wind project is located in Scottish waters 25 kilometers off the coast of Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. For the new Hywind Scotland Project, assembly in West Coast Norway is scheduled for first half 2017. In 2009 Statoil and Siemens successfully installed a 2.3 MW Siemens turbine at the first floating full-scale wind project worldwide, Hywind Demo.
This Scottish pilot project demonstrates how future floating concepts for commercial and large scale offshore wind parks can be both cost efficient and low risk. The floating foundations are ballast-stabilized and fastened to the seabed with mooring lines. With their lightweight nacelles, Siemens large direct drive wind turbines are particularly suited for the floating foundations designed as slender cylinder structures. This concept has already proven its effectiveness in the 2009 project. At the same time Siemens gathered a lot of experience on the specific requirements regarding the control parameters on a moving wind turbine under offshore conditions. For the floating installation Siemens’ technicians developed new controller settings for rotor pitch and yaw drive regulation.
“We are proud to once again be on board the floating wind project with Statoil, and to apply the experience we gained with the first full scale floater,” said Morten Rasmussen, Head of Technology at Siemens Wind Power and Renewables Division. “Hywind Scotland is another pioneering project and has the potential to become a trailblazer for future floating wind projects.”
In the joint project Siemens and the Norwegian energy company Statoil installed a Siemens SWT-2.3-82 with a 65 meter hub height on a ballast-stabilized floating structure. An enlarged version of this structure serves as the basis for the new Hywind Scotland project, which contains five SWT-6.0-154 wind turbines with a hub height of 103 meter each.
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