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Press Release23 May 2016Hamburg
Siemens to supply wind turbines and grid connection for Beatrice offshore project
"This is a significant order for our
new 7-megawatt-class wind turbine", stated Michael Hannibal, CEO of the
Offshore Market Unit of the Siemens Wind Power and Renewables Division.
"We are looking forward to working with our customer on this large
offshore wind power project off the Scottish coast.”
“We are proud to announce the first
reference for our newly developed Offshore Transformer Module together with our
customer”, stated Mirko Düsel, CEO Transmission Solutions Business Unit at
Siemens. “The application of light weight distributed substations is an
important lever for reaching Siemens' goal of reducing the costs of wind power
generated offshore to below 10 euro cts/kWh by 2020.”
The Beatrice offshore wind farm will be
located around 14 kilometers off the Scottish coast. The SWT-7.0-154 wind
turbines will be erected on jacket foundations in ocean depths between 35 and
56 meters. Siemens plans to produce the corresponding wind turbine blades for
Beatrice at its Hull facility. Installation of the wind turbines is scheduled
to begin in the summer of 2018. Following commissioning of the plant in 2019,
Siemens will also be responsible for service and maintenance for the wind
turbines within the framework of a long-term service contract extending over a
period of 15 years. The contract also covers remote monitoring and diagnostics
for the wind turbines so as to ensure their long-term availability and performance.
The logistics concept for this plant also includes the use of a helicopter.
“We are pleased to be working
side-by-side with the BOWL partnership over the next 15 years to provide clean
safe reliable power to the citizens of the UK,” added Mark Albenze, CEO Power
Generation Services Wind Power and Renewables Business Unit at Siemens. “We are
excited about this project and are looking forward to providing our advanced
offshore logistics.”
For the grid access solution, Siemens will
deliver two offshore transformer modules , which are one third smaller in size
and weight compared to a conventional alternating-current (AC) platform. Siemens’ partner in delivering
the offshore grid connection, Nexans, will be responsible for design, supply
and installation of the export cable, both offshore and onshore. The OTM’s will be linked together to provide the required
transmission capacity. Focusing on the core electrical equipment and removing a
number of optional ancillary systems made this space and weight reduction
possible, which also results in a reduced maintenance regime. The grid access
solution will be project managed and engineered from the Siemens Energy
Management Renewable Energy Engineering Centre in Manchester, UK.
With its nearly 2,100 installed wind
turbines offshore and their total capacity of more than seven gigawatts,
Siemens is the leading provider of offshore wind turbines worldwide. The
company also has long-term service contracts for a total capacity of 6.7
gigawatts in the offshore wind power business. Furthermore Siemens has
commissioned offshore grid connections with a total capacity of more than six
gigawatts making it the leading provider of offshore grid access for both AC and
DC technology.
Beatrice offshore wind power plant to be the first project equipped with new offshore grid access solution
Siemens’ new Offshore Transformer
Module (OTM): The innovative device installed on its own independent wind
turbine foundation (pictured).
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