A2Sea has installed the first turbine at the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm off the Norfolk coast.
The crew on jack-up Sea Challenger completed the installation of the 6MW Siemens turbine on 7 January, the Danish company said.
For the next few months the vessel will erect 66 more wind turbines at the site. All are being shipped from the Siemens’ manufacturing and pre-assembly facility at Hull.
Each of the machines will be commissioned straight after installation and the project team is aiming for a mid-year completion date at the Statoil project.
“We have wide experience in handling the Siemens 6MW turbines, but it cannot be done without good team work,” A2Sea chief executive Jens Frederik Hansen said.
“It is a great pleasure to once again work together with Siemens, but also our renewed cooperation and partnership with Statoil, which started on their first offshore wind project Sheringham Shoal, and now continues on the Dudgeon project.”
Image: Byron Price, Rix Leopard (Statoil)
