NAVANTIA cuts the steel for the electrical substation of Ibedrola’s offshore wind farm East Anglia One
21 March 2017 | Madrid
NAVANTIA began today, at the Puerto Real shipyard, to cut the steel for the electrical substation for Ibedrola’s East Anglia One offshore wind farm (United Kingdom).
The event, which began at 11:00 am, consisted in the cut of the Cable Deck.
The scope of the contract includes the construction of a Top Side module, as well as the construction of its jacket at the Puerto Real shipyard, and the offshore supporting item for connecting and operating it at the North Sea. The above entails for NAVANTIA the work of 350 persons on average, although “with periods when the demand for workers will reach up to 600 persons”, during the next 18 months.
This new award, together with the contract for the manufacture at the Ría de Ferrol of 42 jackets for the same wind farm, constitutes a significant step in NAVANTIA’s consolidation process in the offshore wind power industry, providing continuity to the contracts already implemented for the Wikinger offshore wind farm, which have been completed to Iberdrola’s full satisfaction.
East Anglia One, one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world
Thanks to the investment of almost 3 Billion Euros, East Anglia One will be one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world once it begins to operate in 2020. Iberdrola’s facility will be able to cover the electricity demand of more than 500,000 English households.
The scope of the contract, with a value of almost 65 M€, includes the construction of the substation, of its supporting structure (jacket) at the Puerto Real shipyard, as well as of the offshore supporting item for connecting and operating it at the North Sea.
This wind farm, the third of its characteristics which Iberdrola will put into service in the world, will feature the largest wind turbines ever built, each with a 7 MW power, and with a total height of 235 meters.
The extent of this initiative has no precedent within the Spanish renewable industry. By way of example, the offshore wind farm will cover a surface of more than 300 square kilometers, the equivalent of 30,000 soccer fields; the cable which will carry all the energy from the offshore wind farm to the solid ground will have a length of 85 kilometers (the distance between Madrid and Toledo); the substation will have a surface of 1,144 m2 (the size of the Vicente Calderón soccer stadium in Madrid); while each of the wind generator’s blades will be 75 meters long.
East Anglia One is the third project which Ibedrola implements in the offshore wind power industry. The company has already put into service in the United Kingdom the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm, with a 389 MW capacity, and it has under construction Wikinger, with a 350 MW capacity.
It is worth recalling that, besides of the contract for the construction of the East Anglia One’s substatin, NAVANTIA’s shipyards in Andalusia have won another contract, the one for building the offshore substation for the Wikinger offshore wind farm which Ibedrola is developing on German waters at the Baltic Sea, which was delivered on August and which is already installed on site.
About NAVANTIA:
NAVANTIA constitutes a world reference in the design, construction and integration of warships with a high-technological content, as well as ship repairs and upgrades. Besides, its activity lines include the design and manufacturing of combat and command and control systems, integrated platform management systems, firing control systems, propulsion engines and the Life Cycle Support for all its products. Although its main activity is in the naval field, NAVANTIA also designs and manufactures systems for the Army and the Air Force.
NAVANTIA belongs to Grupo SEPI, a corporate holding which includes a total of 15 state-owned companies in which it has direct, majority shareholding participations, with a workforce of more than 73,000 professionals in 2015; the Spanish state-owned television and radio corporation, Corporación Radiotelevisión Española, which is attached to SEPI, and one public foundation. Equally, SEPI has direct minority shareholdings in a further nine companies, and indirect shareholdings in more than one hundred companies.