Siemens Gamesa Picks Contractor for First SOV Newbuild in Asia - Offshore WIND
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Siemens Gamesa Picks Contractor for First SOV Newbuild in Asia
Siemens Gamesa has awarded a 15-year charter contract to Cyan Renewables for its first service operation vessel (SOV) in Asia.
The contract will begin in 2026 and the SOV will be used to service 73 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines at the Hai Long offshore wind farms, located about 50 kilometres off the coast of Changhua County in Taiwan.
With a total installed capacity of 1,044 MW, the offshore wind project is expected to power more than one million households.
Cyan Renewables, a portfolio company of Seraya Partners, will equip the SOV with technology such as Siemens’ BlueDrive PlusC propulsion system for optimal energy efficiency while maintaining its environmental footprint, the firm said.
“We are proud that Cyan Renewables has clinched the contract to build SGRE’s first SOV in Asia. With the accelerating growth of the offshore wind industry, there is a pressing need for more technically advanced support vessels with high fuel efficiency to facilitate the installation and servicing of large offshore wind turbines,” said James Chern, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Seraya Partners.
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The vessel will also be designed to ensure the safe transportation of service technicians all year round to maintain the offshore wind turbines, each featuring a 222-metre diameter rotor and 108-metre blade length.
The construction of the SOV is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2024.
This is a follow-on collaboration between Siemens Gamesa and Cyan Renewables. Since July 2023, the company has been supporting Siemens Gamesa in maintaining three offshore wind farms in Belgium with its purpose-built SOV Groenewind which the company acquired from Belgium-based DEME Group last year.
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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.
Projects have also been proposed off the Southeast coast, off California and Hawaii, and for the Great Lakes.