The first of two offshore substation topsides has been loaded out for Otary’s 487MW Seamade offshore wind farm off the coast of Belgium.
The 1200-tonne structure was loaded on to a barge at Engie Fabricom’s yard in Hoboken and is now heading to Flushing and then on to the project site.
Otary said the topside is for the part of the project formerly known as Mermaid, with the other section previously called Seastar.
Engie Fabricom is part of consortium also including Tractebel, Smulders and GeoSea responsible for the full engineering, procurement, construction, transport, installation and commissioning of both substations.
Seamade will comprise 58 Siemens Gamesa 8.4MW turbines with 167-metre rotor diameters.
DEME Offshore completed installation of the project’s 58 monopile and two offshore substation foundations last month.