Siemens Gamesa Selects Global Wind Projects for Neart na Gaoithe Pre-Assembly Work - Offshore WIND
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Siemens Gamesa Selects Global Wind Projects for Neart na Gaoithe Pre-Assembly Work
Global Wind Projects has been awarded a contract by Siemens Gamesa for the pre-assembly of 54 wind turbine towers for the 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm, being developed by EDF Renewables and ESB off the coast of Scotland.
Global Wind Projects said that this is the company’s first standalone offshore wind contract under which they will provide cranes, installation personnel, and ground transport (in partnership with Forth Ports Limited) for the pre-assembly of wind turbine towers for the Scottish offshore wind project.
Work will commence in the coming weeks, the company said.
The wind turbine towers will be pre-assembled as part of the Siemens Gamesa scope of work at the Port of Dundee before being transported to the 105 square kilometre wind farm site located off the coast of Fife.
Global Wind Projects said that they deployed 90 personnel to the port to complete the work scope, with 30+ new jobs created.
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The pre-assembly of the first wind turbine towers commenced at the Port of Dundee marshaling yard in June this year.
A month later, Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s vessel Blue Tern installed the first of the 54 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines at the offshore construction site.
The wind turbine commissioning will be carried out using the vessel HST Swansea.
The Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm is owned by EDF Renewables UK and ESB. Once fully operational in 2024, the project will supply enough low-carbon electricity for around 375,000 homes and offset over 400,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each 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.