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Glamox Inks Sofia Lighting Contract
Norway-headquartered Glamox has won a contract from Dutch engineering company, Bakker Sliedrecht, to provide specialist marine LED lighting for the foundation platforms for 100 14 MW wind turbines for the Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK.
For the Sofia offshore wind farm, Glamox will provide 800 marine-certified LED luminaires, which will illuminate the platforms on which the giant wind turbines will be installed.
The luminaires include indoor and seawater-resistant outdoor linear LED luminaires and floodlights.
According to Glamox, these luminaires, which have a long life of 100,000 hours, are highly energy efficient and designed to cope with harsh weather conditions.
The platforms, pre-fitted with the marine-certified luminaires, will be installed from 2024 at the RWE-owned wind farm which is expected to be completed and generating power in 2026.
The foundations, provided by EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH, will be located 195 kilometres off the North East Coast of England in a 593-square-kilometre area which is roughly the size of the Isle of Man, said Glamox.
The units will be installed in water ranging from 20 metres to 50 metres in depth and are 80-90 metres in length and weigh between 1,200-1,400 tonnes each, according to the company.
The project’s offshore construction kicked off in September with the laying of the first section of high voltage direct current (HVDC) export cable at the site.
The Sofia offshore wind farm will feature 100 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines which will generate 1.4 GW of power, enough to provide renewable energy for nearly 1.2 million UK homes.
The wind farm will save more than 2.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions per year compared to the same electricity production using UK fossil fuels, said Glamox.
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Over the next decade, U.S. offshore wind power is expected to grow from a single 30-megawatt wind farm off Rhode Island to more than 2,000 MW of capacity along the Atlantic Seaboard. There are contracts for wind power off the coasts of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has estimated the United States has over 4,000 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind potential, enough to power the country four times over.
The growth in part being spurred by state solicitations, including in New York, where then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) set a commitment of 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, and in Connecticut, where in June 2021, Gov. Ned Lamont (D) signed legislation authorizing the construction of 2,000 MW of offshore wind by 2030.
The offshore development is also being driven by an investment tax credit set to end in December 2019 and is equal to 12 percent of expenditures. U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) have introduced a bill to extend the tax credit for up to eight years.
The Interior Department has held eight competitive lease sales that resulted in 15 offshore wind leases over 1.7 million acres that has the potential for 21 GW of capacity. In February 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management completed a bidding process that realized $4.37 billion for 488,000 acres across six lease areas in federal waters off New York and New Jersey.
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