Jumbo concludes Yunlin wind TP installation campaign offshore Taiwan

Jumbo Offshore has completed transport and installation of the transition pieces for Yunneng Wind Power’s Yunlin wind farm offshore Taiwan.

To prepare for the campaign, the DP2 heavy-lift crane vessel Jumbo Javelin underwent various modifications, including a boom extension to its Jumbo Fly-Jib modular crane boom extension.

This feature can be mounted on any Jumbo J-Class vessel to increase the lifting height. In this case, Jumbo Javelin’s gained the capability to lift the 27-m high transition pieces.

The vessel was loaded out with transition pieces in Kaohsiung, transporting up to four 450-t transition pieces per trip. In total, it transported and installed 80 transition pieces in water depths between 7 m and 35 m.

For the shallower water locations, the vessel switched from installation on DP to installation on anchors.

The Yunlin wind farm in the Taiwan Strait is 8 km to 17 km from the coast of Taiwan, covering an 82-sq-km area. Its 80 wind turbine generators can output up to 640 MW.