Belgian heavy-lift specialist Sarens has carried out what it describes as “some of the vital initiatives in our historical past”.
The corporate labored on the set up of BorWin5 high-voltage direct present (HVDC) platform.
It’s going to join the generators of the 900MW He Dreiht wind farm being constructed within the North Sea with the German grid, serving to to produce inexperienced vitality to round one million households.
The platform converts the AC present generated by the generators into DC and transmits it to an onshore reception level via 230km of cable.
This platform was fabricated in Puerto Actual, close to the Spanish metropolis of Cadiz, by Dragados Offshore, and is now en path to the North Sea by barge.
As soon as in its ultimate location, will probably be put in, along with the 64 Vestas 15MW generators, with a view to finishing the commissioning course of earlier than the top of the 12 months.
Sarens transported the jacket and topside 1.5km from the Puerto Actual manufacturing unit to the barge.
To do that, it used 48 load cells and 500-tonne jacks, in addition to 476 axle traces of self-propelled modular transporters (SPMTs).
The crew needed to cope with the results of three weeks of heavy rains, in addition to the irregular type of the jacket, which made the meeting of transport stools difficult.
José Martínez, Sarens’ key account supervisor, mentioned the feat proved Sarens’ “means to adapt to any sort of job because of using essentially the most superior high-tech gear, however particularly because of the expertise we’ve acquired over many years in initiatives of every type and magnitudes”.
Sarens has labored on wind farm set up in French initiatives at Fécamp, Saint Nazaire, and Saint Brieuc, off the coast of Brittany.
Extra just lately, it moved 176 generators for the Coastal Virginia Offshore wind farm within the US and the Moray West wind farm within the UK.
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