Offshore staff
AVILES, Principado de Asturias — Windar Renovables has sealed an agreement with Iberdrola for the manufacture of 21 transition parts for the Windanker offshore wind farm in German waters. This is the sixth project of this type of foundation to date.
The production will be carried out in the facilities of Avilés, with the collaboration of a large number of Spanish suppliers in the manufacture of secondary structure, which will be integrated into the Port of Avilés, prior to its shipment to Germany.
The manufacture of the 21 pieces will require more than 450,000 hours of work generating 400 jobs.
Production is scheduled to begin at the end of 2024, and deliveries would arrive until about the end of summer 2025. Each of these elements will have maximum dimensions of 17 m in height, 8 m in diameter and 400 tons in weight.
Windanker, which will be located in German waters, will have a capacity of 315 MW, incorporating new generation turbines with a unit capacity of about 15 MW, and part of the electricity generated will be allocated to power sales contracts once it is commissioned in 2026.
Windanker will reinforce the Baltic Hub, which will add more than 1,100 MW of installed capacity, also integrated by the projects already built previously by Windar, Wikinger and Baltic Eagle.
Windar Renovables also participates in the manufacture of this type of substructures for other large Iberdrola marine parks. Baltic Eagle, in German waters, whose last shipment took place in June (50 pieces), Vineyard Wind I (62 pieces) on the coast of Massachusetts, US, and East Anglia 3 off the UK (95 pieces).
08.10.2023
