SgurrEnergy has won a 12-year construction and operational monitoring contract for the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
The scope of the contract includes monitoring the construction works as well as the financial and operational performance of the project, the renewables consultancy said.
It will provide regular reporting to the project lenders throughout construction and for the first 10 years of operation.
Initial works on the €1.6 billion wind farm some 45km north of the island of Borkum will start immediately following its financial close earlier this month.
It is being developed by Partners Group, InfraRed Capital Partners, DEME Concessions Wind, GE Energy Financial Services and L’Agence de l’environnement et de la maîtrise de l’énergie.
A group of 10 international and local banks committed €1.2 billion of debt to the project.
SgurrEnergy, a unit of the Wood Group, was appointed as lenders’ technical advisor for a consortium of banks in 2015 to support the project to financial close.
“From the first large scale deployment of the GE Haliade 6MW wind turbine to the innovative contracting strategy, this is a milestone project for the European offshore wind industry and we are delighted to continue our support for a further 12 years of construction and operational monitoring,” SgurrEnergy project manager Kevin Murphy said.
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