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UK: Siemens Gamesa will supply turbines for \u00d8rsted’s 1,386MW Hornsea Project Two, 89km off the east coast of England.<\/p>\n
It will provide its SG-8.0-167 DD turbines for what will the world\u2019s biggest offshore wind farm when operational in 2022.<\/p>\n
The manufacturer will produce the majority of the blades and carry out pre-assembly work at its factory in Hull, north-east England, and also expects towers to be “partly sourced” from UK suppliers.<\/p>\n
Siemens Gamesa added the nacelles for the turbines would be made at its new factory in Cuxhaven, northern Germany.<\/p>\n
\u00d8rsted has previously selected Siemens Gamesa as turbine supplier for several of its UK projects:\u00a0Hornsea Project One, London Array, Race Bank, West of Duddon Sands, Walney Extension East and Westermost Rough.<\/p>\n
The two have also teamed up for Anholt off the coast of Denmark, and Borkum Riffgrund 1 and Gode Wind 1 and 2, which are in German waters.<\/p>\n
Siemens Gamesa\u00a0unveiled the SG-8.0-167 DD model<\/a>, which has a power-mode option to hit 9MW, at WindEurope\u2019s annual conference in November. \u00a0It will\u00a0also be used<\/a>\u00a0at Vattenfall\u2019s Kriegers Flak in the Danish Baltic Sea and Vesterhav North and South projects.<\/p>\n In its standard 8MW mode, more than 170 units of the SG-8.0-167 DD would be needed to reach Hornsea Project Two\u2019s 1,386MW capacity, while in the turbine\u2019s 9MW power-mode option 154 units would be needed.<\/p>\n \u00d8rsted had secured a contract for difference (CfD) deal worth \u00a357.50\/MWh (\u20ac64.10\/MWh) for Hornsea Project Two in the UK\u2019s\u00a0second auction round in September<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a strike price\u00a050% lower<\/a>\u00a0than those reached in an earlier round two years earlier.<\/p>\n Duncan Clark, \u00d8rsted\u2019s programme director for the project, said: “Hornsea Project Two is a game-changing renewable energy project in terms of both size and cost, and this selection is an important step in the procurement and construction process.”<\/p>\n This month, the developer also began work on a\u00a0new operations hub<\/a>\u00a0in north-east England, from where it will serve its North Sea offshore sites, including Hornsea Project Two, and its 1.2GW Hornsea Project One site, currently under construction.<\/p>\n