Greater Changhua Turbine Towers Start Arriving in Taichung Port

Greater Changhua Turbine Towers Start Arriving in Taichung Port

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The first wind turbine tower section built for the 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind farm has arrived at the Port of Taichung, Taiwan, Ørsted, the developer of the project, said.

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Greater Changhua Turbine Towers Start Arriving in Taichung Port
Source: Ørsted

This is the first of 333 tower sections in total that are being manufactured locally by the consortium of CS Wind and Chin Fong Machine Industrial for the project.

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Ørsted selected Port of Taichung as the project’s construction hub and the Operations and Maintenance base.

The towers will support 111 Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167 DD offshore wind turbines, the Asia Pacific variant, installed at the site 35-50 kilometres off the coast of Changhua County.

The construction of the wind farm is scheduled to be completed in 2022.