Sea Worker Installs First Two Turbines at Array Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

A2Sea’s Sea Worker has successfully installed the first two of 175 turbines at Array Offshore Wind Farm, and it is expected for them to start producing power in March, reports Businessgreen.

They are the Siemens’ 3.6MW machines, which were tested at Hornsea zone and are already being used at the Burbo bank.

The plan is to complete this part of the project by the end of the current year, and MPI Discovery is going to join the project soon to help finish the job.

The London Array could eventually power up to 750,000 homes, what accounts for about a quarter of Greater London, and reduce harmful CO2 emissions by 1.4 million tons a year.

At the same time, SSE has announced the upcoming completion of the 500 MW Greater Gabbard wind farm project off Suffolk.

That project commenced back in 2007, and its costs are between £650 million and £1.5 billion. There are certain problems with Greater Gabbard’s main contractor, Fluor, over bad quality of monopiles and transition pieces, which were already installed in an early phase of this project.

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Offshore Wind Staff, February 7, 2012