Blue Wind Engineering has awarded Kinewell Energy with a contract for the optimisation of substation location and the inter-array cable route for the 600MW Wando-Guemil project in South Korea.
The 600MW Wando-Guemil Offshore Wind Farm is located in South-West Korea and is being developed by KEON, supported by Dohwa and Blue Wind Engineering.
Blue Wind Engineering has engaged Kinewell Energy to leverage its unique artificial intelligence-based cable-layout optimisation technology called KLOC.
Kinewell Energy’s KLOC solution rapidly designs an economically optimised inter-array cable layout, appropriately prioritising the optimisation of capital costs against operational costs such as electrical distribution losses.
Dr Andrew Jenkins, chief executive and founder of Kinewell Energy, said: “We are delighted to have been selected by Blue Wind Engineering to support them on this exciting project.
“Our unique KLOC technology will help maximise the value of the project, through optimising both the substation location and the inter-array cable system.”
Dr Jone Oh, chief executive of Blue Wind Engineering added: “We are looking forward to working with the Kinewell Energy team on this project, and the value-added they bring through their KLOC inter-array cable layout optimisation technology.”
The contract follows the global launch of Kinewell Energy’s next-generation KLOC software at the Global Offshore Wind conference in the summer of 2022.
Kinewell Energy developed this innovation with a share of £3.5m in match funding from the North of Tyne Combined Authority’s TIGGOR programme delivered by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult.