The first of three 880MW offshore substations under construction for Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project will be installed in Brad, Aalborg, Denmark, for outfitting from a prefabricated site in Spain. – Arrived at Industries’ production site.
In 2021, a consortium comprising Semco Maritime and Blood Industries was awarded a contract to supply three substations for a 2.6GW CVOW offshore wind project in the United States.
Bladt Industries, headquartered in Denmark, will be responsible for the design, procurement and manufacture of the substation’s steel structure and jacket foundation, and will manage the design, procurement and installation of the electrical equipment, energy systems and inter-array cables. . Semko Maritime.
In addition to the steel structure and foundations for the substation, Brad will also deliver the transition piece (TP) for the wind turbine foundations of the offshore wind farm under a separate contract secured with the developer.
Once completed, each 880 MW offshore substation will weigh 3,800 tonnes, excluding jacket foundations and pin piles.
As previously reported, Dominion Energy will act as a balance-of-plant (BoP) contractor to provide foundation and substation transportation and installation, as well as power plant engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) services. , selected the DEME Group and Prysmian consortium. Interarray and export cables for your project.
DEME Offshore will oversee the entire offshore installation of the foundations, substation, infield cables and part of the export cables.
Prysmian Group will provide export cables and 320 kilometers of 3-core 66 kV offshore inter-array cable with XLPE insulation for wind farms.
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The CVOW project consists of 176 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind turbines and three offshore substations within a 112,800-acre commercial lease area 27 miles off the Virginia Beach coast.
Construction and fabrication work is already underway, with monopile foundations arriving at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal in Virginia. Foundation and wind turbine installation is scheduled to begin in 2024.
Once fully constructed in 2026, the 2.6 GW offshore wind farm will be able to generate enough electricity to power up to 660,000 homes.
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