Oil and gas joint venture Repsol Sinopec has released an updated decommissioning plan for the two-turbine Beatrice offshore wind demonstration project in the Moray Firth off northern Scotland.
The proposals to take down the two 5MW Repower turbines is part of wider plans to wind down the Beatrice field some 90km northeast of Inverness.
The Beatrice wind farm demo was built in 2007 and since then developments in the design of wind turbines has “advanced significantly” and so the turbines cannot economically be re-used, the JV said.
Decommissioning, together with other assets including drilling, production and support platforms, power cables and pipelines, will take place between 2024 and 2029, it added.
Image: turbine at Beatrice demo (Senvion/Jan Oelker)
Beatrice demo exit plan updated
By EBS