CWind, part of the Global Marine Group, has completed this year’s subsea services at the East Anglia 1 Wind farm.
It was awarded a multi-year contract for ScottishPower Renewables and Macquarie’s Green Investment Group’s JV in 2019 to carry out services including subsea inspections of the foundation jackets and offshore substation.
It also completed any corrective maintenance requested and pre-engineering studies at the offshore wind farm.
Located 43km off the coast of Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth, East Anglia 1, is the first of four offshore windfarms ScottishPower Renewables is developing in the region.
CWind worked with Rovco, providers of ROV and hydrographic services, to carry out this year’s campaign.
Rovco carried out the annual subsea balance of plant (BOP) and cable inspection works at the offshore windfarm.
CWind managing director Nathanael Allison said: “We are pleased to share the successful completion of our 2020 campaign for ScottishPower Renewables and look forward to returning to East Anglia 1, to provide our industry-leading subsea engineering services at the 102-turbine windfarm in 2021.
“This project calls on our extensive experience providing project services to the offshore wind industry since 2010 and supports our drive to grow our East Coast hub, further encouraging new employment opportunities both within CWind and throughout the supply chain with talent from the local area.”
ScottishPower Renewables’ East Anglia 1 project director Charlie Jordan said: “Working with an East Coast based contractor such as CWind highlights our commitment to working with local businesses on our current and future East Anglia wind farms.”
“The importance of balance of plant work cannot be overstated and we trust in CWind’s ability to continue providing a safe and efficient service so that we can remain operational, providing energy to up to 630,000 homes every year.”
Rovco managing director Simon Miller added: “The use of our Intelligent Data Platform (IDP) for daily progress tracking, data capture and easy interpretation of inspection results via a dedicated secure storage platform, is testament to an industry that is driving the use of new technologies to bring efficiencies and help lower the LCOE over the OpEx portion of the windfarm assets lifecycle.”