The first two wind turbines have been installed at Dogger Bank A, the first of the three phases of the UK’s 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s biggest offshore wind farm under construction.
According to a Notice of Operations from the project, the first wind turbine was installed on the 29th of August and the second one was in place a few days ago.
The work on installing the project’s 95 GE Haliade-X 13 MW wind turbines is being performed by Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Voltaire which left the Able Seaton Port with the first batch of components and headed to the offshore site at the beginning of last month.
Major offshore construction work, besides the wind turbine installation, continues at the Dogger Bank A site, located 130 kilometres off the east coast of Yorkshire, with the installation of all 95 monopile foundations now completed.
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To put the generation capacity in perspective, that’s almost enough to send 3 deloreans back to the future.
Wow, we live in a Golden Age.
The Delorean only needed 1.21GW for a very short period of time (they never specified, but the duration of a lightning strike was enough - the average one lasts just over half a second). So in reality, it could send almost 6 Deloreans back to the future per second when running at rated power.
Fascinating project, thanks for the update
