Siemens has bagged an order for an offshore wind power plant at the Race Bank project of DONG Energy located in Great Britain.
As per the wind order, Siemens will supply 91 of its 6MW direct drive wind turbines. The total capacity will be up to approx. 580 MW.
Siemens did not reveal the size of the wind turbines deal.
The wind turbines will have a rotor diameter of 154 meters. Installation of the turbines at the Race Bank project of DONG Energy will start during the spring of 2017. This order is part of the frame agreement concluded between DONG Energy and Siemens in 2012.
Siemens and DONG will provide the service for the wind plant for a period of five years. When the Race Bank offshore wind power plant is completed at the beginning of 2018, it will have a capacity to supply approximately 400,000 British households with eco-friendly electricity.
The company will erect the Race Bank offshore wind power plant around 32 kilometers off the British eastern coast and will cover an area of 62 square kilometers. The wind turbines will be erected on monopile foundations in water depths between 6 and 26 meters.
Michael Hannibal, CEO Offshore of the Wind Power and Renewables Division at Siemens, said: “We are working hard to bring the costs of offshore wind energy down to make it competitive with other sources of power generation.”
In the last five years the costs of offshore wind has fallen by 11 percent, according to study recently published by Renewable UK.
Siemens wants to have technologies available already by 2020 which will make it possible to drive power generating costs from offshore wind down below 10 euro-cents per kilowatt-hour. The company is making improvements at the turbine and vital grid connections.
Rajani Baburajan
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