Dong’s Walney Wind Farms Makes Shortlist for Large Project Award in Renewable UK 2012

Today DONG Energy’s Walney Offshore Windfarms made the shortlist for the Large Project Award in the Renewable UK 2012 awards.

The winner will be announced at a ceremony on 27 June in London and we are up against five other projects.

 Record breaking

Walney offshore windfarms is currently the largest in the world at 367MW. The project was selected for the category not just because it is the biggest but because it set a number of industry construction records as Jens Hansen, the project director explains:

 “Offshore installation for Walney 2 was record breaking with all work being carried out in five months, thirteen days. Normally projects are constructed over a two year period – foundations in year 1, turbines in year 2. However, on Walney 1 and 2 we optimised the installation programme through increased installation setup.”

The number of turbines installed in one week was also a record on Walney 2 – in just one week the project succeeded in installing 7 wind turbines by having two turbine installation vessels, Kraken and Leviathan, working in parallel.

The competition is tough but DONG Energy will be present on the night with fingers crossed.

 Shortlist for the Renewable UK “Large Project” Award

•  Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm, Repower, Vattenfall, Offshore Design Engineering Ltd, FoundOcean
• Fullabrook Windfarm, ESB Wind Development
• Walney Offshore Wind Farm, DONG Energy
• The Flagship Project of the Marine Renewable Industry, EMEC
• Wind Turbines at Distribution Centres, Tesco
• Positively Mabey, Mabey Bridge

Walney Offshore Windfarms is a joint venture between DONG Energy (50.1%), SSE (25.1%) and OPW (24.8%). With 102 turbines and a total capacity of 367MW, Walney can supply up to 320,000 households a year with renewable power.

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Offshore WIND staff, May 23, 2012; Image: dongenergy